# Meet The People Destroying Flock Cameras
# Curiosity Corner — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Usx5LSXH1w

You may have recently seen cameras that
look like this, or this, or this. These
may seem similar to traditional security
cameras or radars, but they're much more
powerful. The most well-known brand of
these new cameras is Flock. And within
the last 14 months, the amount of these
cameras across the country has doubled
[music] to now over 100,000.
And these things literally have the
capability to track and store your
faces, your whereabouts,
And it's like if you were to build a
graph of that sheep, you know, and and
plot it to [music] a map. Now, it's as
if you've had a GPS on your car for an
entire month.
These cameras track license [music]
plates and store digital mappings of
people's movements. Police can then
search that data for 30 days. They also
use AI to make note of various vehicle
features like scratches and dents. So,
now an underworld is forming. Across
America, people are destroying and
vandalizing Flock [music] cameras. This
is an insight into that world.
I wanted to do something that I can put
in a video that would bring awareness to
these Flock cameras, but I also
understood that there might be serious
consequences if I if I did actual
serious damage to these cameras. So, I
was thinking about what I might want to
do, and
the night before my friend sent me a
video of another town where residents of
the town had put trash bags over the
cameras. I don't know if they had done
it after the city had voted to remove
the cameras and they were just covering
them up until they were removed, or they
were covering them up before [music]
there was any vote or anyone had decided
to take them away. Anyway, that's how I
got the idea, so I went and got some
trash bags, and there were dozens of of
Flock cameras just within a few blocks
of of where I live. So, I took those
trash bags and went to a couple and put
the bag over, which allowed me to
communicate a message here. I'm not I'm
not damaging them. Local police are able
to take the trash bags off pretty
easily, but here I am covering them,
which may or may not render them
useless.
But, if it does render them useless,
what is the use that they were being
used for? That's the big question.
Because it's it it's not just Flock
cameras.
The way I think about this is
let's
fast forward 10 years into the future.
[music] If we let this go unchecked and
we continue down this path, what does
that world look like?
I mean, you look at just how many
cameras have been installed in the past
year. You can kind of drag your finger
on the Deflq map and see the number of
[music] cameras across the nation. Feels
like it's growing exponentially. So,
from what we're seeing right now, I can
conceive of a world in 10 years where
there's one of these on every single
corner, [music] and I can't leave my
house without a corporation
knowing exactly where I am and where I'm
going, and I definitely don't want to
live in a world like that. It it's tough
because it feels like this is where
we're headed anyway, right? It feels
like Amazon's putting [music] camera
glasses on all their drivers, and some
companies going to have drones that are
delivering things to our backyard with
cameras on them, and our phones that
we're carrying already [music] log a map
of what we're doing and where we're
going and what we're saying. So, it
feels like we're already there, and
[music] I don't know exactly what that
solution's going to be, but I know that
this is something that we should be
talking about as a nation.
But, some people are taking things a
step further.
When it comes to Flock cameras, I just
straight-up destroy them. I get rid of
them. I don't leave them up. I don't
leave any chance for them to pull up and
just take the trash bag off or uncover
them. I take them with me, and I'll
completely dismantle them, and then
dispose of the parts individually in
different locations, so that they have
to spend the money, spend the resources
to get a new one. Obviously, what I'm
doing is [music] not the best way of
going about doing it. Instead, get a
lawyer, go to city council meetings,
bring these up, and tell your city you
don't like them, and I guarantee you
people will agree with you, and then you
can get them removed peacefully and
correctly. But, I want immediate action,
so I'm just doing it myself. [music] I
also just like breaking things, so I
figured this would be the one thing I
could get away with breaking that
everyone would be in agreement is cool.
Not cool, but like we're cool with it
happening.
What are you concerned about?
My biggest thing is
not so much the privacy, it's just the
fact that they're putting these up to
try to prevent future crimes from
happening, which is crazy. Once they
have this system in place, it's only a
matter of time before they start
changing what the rules are or what
constitutes as a crime. And then they
can just pick you up off the street for
doing literally whatever, and they've
got this whole system in place to find
you and track you. I just I don't I
don't like that. I don't like that.
The times where policing and
surveillance was at an all-time high was
literally during the Holocaust when they
were trying to let genocide slide. There
was no privacy. If a police officer
wanted to enter your home and completely
search with no warrant,
[music]
enter your home, interview everyone in
the home with no warrant as if like as
if they're investigating a murder,
was when they were committing genocide.
That's what it required. So, you could
imagine if we're getting to the point
where we have to watch the entire
country from camera. That's just step
one. First off, you give them an inch,
they take a mile. It's where we heading
[music] from this, especially when
there's already genocides being covered
up you know across the planet right now.
Without these level of cameras,
that's my bigger conspiracy is that
they're trying to plot some next level
of evil, [music] and they're going to
need these cameras. I would say another
argument is we already have a lot of
data. [music] We have cameras on us all
the time. I don't think we need these
additional cameras. There's already
enough data to collect. The thing is for
these flood cameras, you don't have to
commit as high as a crime for them to
tap into these cameras. You could just
be speeding or suspicious. Versus
right now they have they could access my
location right now, my camera right now,
my microphone right now. They've been
tapping phones for the last, [music] you
know, few decades. But that's if I'm
committing some kind of high-level drug
operation [music] or series of murders.
They can tap into these iPhones. They
can read all of my messages if they
wanted they would just need a warrant
for that. They're That's the thing.
Okay, I'm going to bridge the entire
thing. We're getting into a society
where they can do conduct warrantless
searches and that's insanely corrupt and
scary. We need to stay awake or what?