# Flock Cameras Are Coming for Your Bike
# Sparky — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpByeoQxEVw

There is cameras going up all over the
country right now and most riders don't
know they exist. They're called Flock
cameras. They scan and take a picture of
every vehicle. Doesn't matter if you did
nothing wrong, no probable cause needed.
They're storing the data of every ride
you take. You ride gas, electric, with a
plate, without a plate, this is going to
affect you. Before we get going today, I
do want to give a quick shout out to the
legend himself, Gixxer Brah. I've been
wanting to make a video on these cameras
for a while now, to be honest with you,
but I saw he released a video about
this. So, even though I do like to try
to keep it light-hearted as possible on
this channel and not talk about super
serious topics, I think this is
something that the bike community needs
to speak up on as a whole. I'll get into
more why I hate these cameras later, but
I just don't like what's happening with
these. So, I think that more people that
can put out videos about these things
and educate people on what they are and
what they're going to do, it's just
going to benefit the community as a
whole. Because again, if you're in this
community, you ride bikes, this is going
to affect you. I'm just going to find
like a news clip to insert because
they'll do a way better job of
explaining what these are than I can. AI
startup, Flock Safety, is building an
army of police tech. They're most
recognizable for their automatic license
plate readers you may have heard of,
which snap a picture of the car's plate
as it drives by. Police say the
technology helps them solve crimes like
kidnappings, murders, and stolen
vehicles. And while this tech it has
existed for some time, Flock is now the
first to centralize it into a single
nationwide database that thousands of
police departments can access at any
time without a warrant.
you go. That's what Flock cameras are.
And on the surface, their intended
purpose seems good, right? I mean,
they're just trying to keep the
community safer. But when it comes to
things like this, it's usually much
deeper than the surface level intent.
And everything I say in this video is
just my opinion. I'm putting on my tin
foil hat a little bit, so take it with a
grain of salt. So again, we know what
the intent of these on the surface is,
to keep the community safer, help law
enforcement. But let's think about the
cons that come with that. Something
that's going to track you every single
time you're on the road, car, bike,
whatever, and it's a private company.
The data they're going to get from that
is pretty much priceless.
100 billion dollars. So, let's just say
you are a law-abiding citizen, you never
do anything wrong, you never go more
than 5 miles over the speed limit,
whatever. They can still build a pretty
good profile on you to A, sell to
advertisers or people that want that
data, or B, if they don't sell it,
people that can get access to this
database can track you, stalk you,
whatever. I'm going to insert another
news clip right now, a video I saw of
somebody getting stalked by their ex. I
guess their ex was in law enforcement or
something. But yeah, they essentially
used this private database to keep tabs
on their ex-girlfriend. Police officer
is caught using police cameras to spy on
his mistress. Mike Rogers, there were
already privacy concerns about these
cameras and then this happened.
And this guy was accused of spying on
his mistress, his mistress's new lovers,
as well as his current wife, all
happening in the city of Costa Mesa.
We'll show you some video here of the
Flock system cameras that we are talking
about. The Flock cameras have been
wildly controversial, especially
recently when there was a data issue
that came to light. But the Orange
County DA's office says this former
Costa Mesa police officer not only used
these Flock cameras to track his
mistress, her new boyfriends, as well as
his current wife, but also used
confidential law enforcement systems to
be able to run people a number of times
that had nothing to do with his work as
a law enforcement officer. So, that's
just one example of the many I've seen
lately. Now, I'm just going to get out
in front and say it. All these tech AI
founders seem so lame to me when they
talk. They all give me like weird, kind
of nerdy villain vibes. This guy is
definitely not an exception to my
theory. He talks like he has the best
interest in mind for people, but when
you look into the facts, he's lobbying
against anything that protects our
privacy. And that brings me to my next
point, that a lot of people are
obviously against these things. I don't
know many people in my life that wants
to have video surveillance done on them
24/7. So, shout out deflock.org. These
people created a website so you can
locate and find Flock cameras in your
area. And this founder came out and said
they're a terrorist organization.
And then unfortunately, there's
terroristic organizations like Deflock,
whose primary motivation is chaos. They
are closer to Antifa than they are
anything else. And that I think is
unfortunate, because we don't want
chaos, or I don't want chaos. I like law
and order. Oh, no. Not the people that
are putting up private cameras that are
selling your data, tracking your every
move. They're not the terrorists. He's
saying the terrorists are the people
that are just letting you know where
these cameras are at. And last time I
checked, I don't know why it'd be an
issue if we knew where a private company
put cameras in our neighborhood. So, I'm
going to go on deflock.org right now.
We're going to go find the closest Flock
camera to us right now. Go ahead and
just type in our zip code. Okay, found
one close by. And I'll pull up a map
right now. These things are everywhere,
most likely in your city. Look it up for
yourself. Just to clarify, too, I'm on
the middle of nowhere, like just a super
industrial area. It's a little bit busy
right now cuz it's midday on a weekday.
But the fact that I saw five cameras
within 3 minutes of me out here is
crazy. Down close to the Salt Lake,
there's legitimately hundreds by me. And
so, they are pretty much unavoidable at
this point if your city allows them,
which some cities don't allow them.
We'll get to that later. So, there you
go. There's a Flock camera right there.
This one's pretty obvious, but some of
them are not like that. They're tucked
away and much more hidden. But every
single one of these cars passing by,
they're taking pictures, getting data,
storing it in their own private
database. They're probably looking at me
right now like, "What is this guy
doing?" It's a nice empty lot here.
Just got to be sure this person's not a
cop.
And they are. I was going to do some
wheelies here, but yeah, that'd probably
not go over well. So, undercover cop.
Salt Lake be tricky with that, man. A
lot of the cops here are unmarked
vehicles, so don't just be assuming it's
not until you know. Oh, look. This guy's
coming back here. Let's just go confront
him and see what's up. What's up, man?
Okay. I'll get out. Look, more Flock
cameras right there. We haven't even
been a block yet, and that's three
cameras out here in the middle of
nowhere. Like, what is going on? So,
let's put some pieces together of like
why this is going to affect us as
riders, or even just you in your daily
life driving cars, whatever. So, even
though I think the intentions are kind
of pure for this place, I guess, I don't
know. Doesn't really matter because when
it's a private company storing data on
you, that's a lot of security risk, man.
So, even if you are the safest rider in
the world, you never go over the speed
limit, you're doing nothing sketchy in
your life, do you still really want to
have a private company in charge of the
data about your life and your routines?
I don't. I really don't. And dude, I
rented a bike recently and took a road
trip on it. The road trip was literally
to a ghost town about an hour and a half
south of here. Like, there's no one
there. And I'm not kidding you, I looked
up, there was multiple of these cameras
on the route there and out of there, and
some in town. So, even if you just want
to go take a cruise out to the middle of
nowhere, maybe get in throttle a little
bit. Maybe in your car and you just want
to go 10 miles over the speed limit.
They're getting data on you. They could
give you tickets afterwards, come to
your house, arrest you if you're doing
high enough speeds, whatever. Or look at
this piece of pavement. If I want to do
a wheelie down this, they're going to
take a picture of it. They're going to
collect data on it. Doesn't matter if
you have a plate or no plate, they're
still getting the picture, they're still
collecting data. AI and the technology
is smart enough now to put things
together. Now, like I said earlier,
there are some cities rejecting this.
And that's kind of the whole point of
this video. I think we all need to be
aware of this, educated on the topic, so
you can make your own decision. But if
you don't want these in your city, I
don't, there's action you can take.
Reach out to your local government.
Write a letter to install others. Tell
people about these. Cuz most people
aren't informed about these things. They
didn't even know they existed. And 99%
of the time, if you tell somebody about
these, they're also not going to like
the concept, they're not going to like
the idea. And in my opinion, if we don't
push back on things like this as a
society, it's just going to keep
escalating. I know this is a bit of a
rumor. I guess it's kind of confirmed
now. But it looks like a lot of new cars
are also going to have these
tracking/data collecting cameras inside
the vehicle moving forward. Let's put it
all together. I mean, you got your phone
collecting data on you. The Flock
cameras are taking pictures of you
outside. Your car is now scanning you on
the inside. There's no privacy anymore.
You're never going to be not watched.
And that ship may have already sailed.
It may be too late to reverse all these
things. But I just think it's ridiculous
that these things are even happening.
And then if you do talk about it, you do
make a website like deflock.org, you get
the creator of this company call people
a terrorist? Like, nah, man. I don't
know what your definition of a terrorist
is, but that's not how I see it. If
anything, the guy putting up private
cameras, collecting data, and then
selling it off or getting it stolen,
that's the terrorist. But the more
people that talk about this, the better
in my opinion. And especially if you
ride bikes, you do not want these things
going up. Say goodbye to all the fun you
have. Cuz I don't know about you, I
didn't buy a bike to go exactly the
speed limit and have no fun ever. And
bikes aside, too much surveillance is
never a good thing. We don't want the
world to be so strict you literally
can't do anything except follow the
exact rules put in place. My opinion,
you need some flexibility with light
rules like that. Let me know. How do you
guys feel about Flock cameras? Go to
deflock.org on your own time, look at
them, how many are in your city. But
that's all the ranting I got in me for
today. So, please hit that like and
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next video.
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