I Exposed Flock: America's Mass-Surveillance Dystopia

Okay, he's going in. That's a Flock camera. process has begun. An AI-powered camera that captures and logs every car that drives past it. And there's over 100,000 of them all over America. Okay, it's blinking red. It's going to be flocked. Do you think the deflockers will be flocked? 100%. So, flock around and find out. Yep. While these cameras are innocently sold as a tool to help find stolen vehicles, in reality, it's a rapidly growing network feeding one database searchable by virtually any police department paying for access for any reason they could keyboard jam into a text box. Thoughts on this Flock camera being outside your home? Who put it up? And not everyone is happy to see these cameras plastered all over America. Law enforcement agencies across the country use AI-powered cameras to scan billions of vehicles each month, often without drivers even knowing they're being recorded. [music] police officer is accused of using Flock safety cameras to search for a lover's location. These drone videos shows officers approach him in the driveway and handcuff him in seconds, but they had the wrong man. A 6-year-old was forced out of her car, down onto the pavement, and held at gunpoint, all because an AI-powered camera misread a license plate. Sergeant Jamie Milliam came to my door accusing me of a $25 package theft. You know, we have cameras in that town, and you can't get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing, correct? Okay. This should scare every single person. The American people are not someone who can be controlled. It's called Flock for a reason, because they treat us like animals. But do these cameras prevent crime, solve crime, or just record it? Can police departments be trusted with access to a growing network of over 100,000-plus cameras all over America? How often do these cameras make mistakes that put innocent people's lives at risk? Who's responsible when they do? And what exactly are we sacrificing our privacy for? While I investigate, I hired a private investigator to ensure [music] the Flock CEO, Garrett Langley, wasn't committing any crime or cheating on his wife. Surely, he won't mind sacrificing some privacy in the interest of public safety if he has nothing to hide. I want eyes on him. Every move, every plate number, every address, every breath in 4K. Let's see how you like being spied [music] on, Garrett. While the private investigator I hired is surveilling the CEO of Flock, let's go to the Flock capital of America, Houston, Texas, and see how they feel about these cameras all over their city. Have you seen uh like these cameras everywhere tracking you? I didn't even notice that. Oh, I didn't even notice that. Oh, you didn't even notice that? We're just asking folks if they want more cameras or less cameras out here in Houston. Um less. Less? Way less? Less. Way less? Less. Less? Yeah. I'd be more. More? More cameras. More. Probably more. Yeah? And why? Cuz I feel like if we have a record of everything, then um there would be less, you know, allegations going on and more proof. More cameras in the area? More cameras in the Yeah, I do. Would you prefer there are more cameras in the area? Yeah. Less cameras. They don't They don't help for anything, bro. That red light, I'll be passing it all the time, so I don't want no cameras here. You don't want any cameras? Cameras. I mean more cameras. More cameras like this? I would probably say less, my personal opinion. I would say less. I mean, I see a lot of them up already, man. Like we don't need any more. I've seen them on the news. I'm like, I don't really care. I get I don't think the amount matters. It's just who's what they're using it for, who's using it. Do they make you feel safer or unsafe? Unsafe. It's debatable. More safe. Safe. I could be pan if they're actually going to do something, you know, with all the stuff that goes on downtown. Sure. So, you're saying nighttime is more safe? More safer. I feel like I'm being stalked, bro. So, you're being stalked? Yeah. Well, I think otherwise, yes. Finding somebody, yes. Abductions, yes. Okay. But, like for traffic stops and tickets, then no. Depending on where they're connected towards, like like What if they're connected to some cop beating his meat looking at a photo of you? No. You goes down to these cameras stop [ __ ] going down? Not at all. You hardly even see police out here stopping stuff. Less safe. Yeah, you feel you're being stalked? Yeah, privacy is being invaded. That's I think it would be less safe cuz it's kind of invasion. An invasion of your privacy? Yeah. I mean, it's too much already. Um yeah, man. It don't matter, man. I see a lot of already anyway, so we do not like being watched all the time, no. I think there are two sides to it, you know, like obviously there are cases where it can help, and I think that those are good, but of course you have willingly letting the government kind of keep track of us. So, I don't like the idea of just willingly giving in and letting the government You know what I mean? It's like It's like we're not even fighting at this point. They just whether they spy on us or not, at least before we didn't know, but now it's kind of like it's in our face. Literally in your face. Exactly, exactly. So, I I I've kind of have mixed opinions about it. Yeah, I mean, if they're going to use it the right way, yeah, sure, go ahead. And do you feel like your privacy is being invaded at all? No. Okay. Privacy is a a human right, and I don't think that it should matter whether I have something to hide or not. I don't have anything to hide, but um when I close the curtains in my house, I don't have anything to hide. I just don't want You know, I want privacy, which is a human right. Same. Honestly, no. I think if you're in public, man, and you know, anywhere, every everyone's a streamer now, you know? Everyone walks around with cameras. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's happening everywhere, so if you're in public So, I mean, to stop crime, seriously, crime is going to happen in no matter what. I mean, I don't give a what kind of security systems you have, it's still going to happen. I talked to the locals in Houston. I was surprised at how How people simply didn't care if there were cameras watching them? If they're using them properly and actually were stopping crimes and I could see some metrics where man crimes are being stopped, then maybe I could maybe say yes. Given that Flock cameras were all over the city, the answer is surely supported by data and hard-hitting facts, right? We got a camera right here. We got a Flock camera right here. We have camera right there, camera right there, another one. We are in the surveillance state whether we like it or not. Rest assured when you take your little ones to the park, we know you're here. Houston is living in a surveillance state. There are cameras literally everywhere. Are we any better than China? We got two Flock cameras literally pointed in the same direction. Does it make you feel safer? This is Okay, would you want more of your tax dollars going towards these cameras? This is In order to truly answer the question and see whether people are actually paying for safety or paying to feel safe. up with the most notorious criminal defense lawyer in Houston to see how these cameras are being used in court. You work with some of the most violent criminals in Houston. Allegedly. Allegedly. Since the introduction of Flock cameras, have you seen a noticeable reduction in violent crime? No. I have not. Okay. I've seen actually um more people come into my office and it's great for business. Been seeing that uh there's an allegation of like a murder that would happen and you know they would say that the the getaway driver uh or the defendant was in that vehicle and that vehicle was going up 45 highway. From 45 highway it it goes out to I-10, pretty much just following it and just putting the pieces together say that this is the person that committed that murder. It's just another tool that they use uh to try to show that there's a higher chance that my client is the one who committed that crime. I've seen them use it a lot. It's another tool that they have along with DNA. It's another tool they have along with surveillance videos from private entities like people's houses. Is it helping prosecute your clients more often or less often? I mean, it can provide damaging evidence in some cases. They definitely haven't made it harder. Um if anything, they have helped our cases. Personally, I don't like the invasion of privacy and I think they should go away. It makes it easier when there's footage that I can use and that's in any aspect of the law, right? It makes that footage also can make it harder when people are trying to hide footage, right? But it depends on who you're representing. So. Okay. And if it helps our case, we can use it. It doesn't help our case, then nobody else will really know that we obtained it in the first place. Ultimately, I think if the focus is the safety of an individual and it doesn't spiral, then that's great. The problem is we're humans. Things spiral. But the problem is there is no independent peer-reviewed study showing that Flock reduces crime. The strongest research saying Flock solves crime is a white paper written by Flock using Flock's own data. And in their own paper, Flock admits that the core question of whether these crimes otherwise would have remained unsolved in the first place was never tested. And that question, in their own words, is unlikely to be solved at scale via quantitative analysis. Translation, the proof doesn't exist. And by their own account, it may never. The strongest independent evidence for ALPR technology closing cases is a 2019 study of a different company's cameras, which found clearance gains for auto theft and robbery that were not statistically significant once researchers controlled for other factors. The authors themselves said further assessment was needed. That's it. That's the evidence selling an estimated 100,000 plus cameras. In fact, in the same years Flock cameras went up across Houston, HPD was found to have suspended more than 264,000 case reports under a code meaning they lacked the personnel to investigate them. Meaning the city was pouring money into technology to detect crime while lacking the manpower to investigate it. Yep, Houston spent $6.39 million over four years on these cameras with $3.94 million of it coming out of the general fund. The same fund that pays the investigators to solve the crimes that were left suspended. Do you think there will be a world in which technology like Flock in the future puts you out of business entirely? That there is so much evidence collected with sensory technology, which the case is perfectly built in 4K, the jury just has to watch it and they can see the whole story unfold. No, it's not. No, it's not because everything is still depending on arguments. There are other defense attorneys, I'm not going to name them, but some of them could you just look at the overwhelming evidence and say, "You know what, dude? You might as well take a plea cuz we're going [music] to lose." Which I don't do that. I think differently than other defense attorneys out there and that's what they like about me. So, I'm looking for more trials to go to that can include murder, raping, theft, arson, child What happens when cameras like Flock's make mistakes putting innocent lives at risk and accusing innocent people of crimes they didn't commit? Let me introduce you to Robert. Robert, what happened on the day of May 3rd? On the day of May 3rd, I was on an extended work trip, 10 days to be specific, up in Jacksonville. And I was going over some of the work of the previous [music] properties that we had finished, making sure that they were done correctly. And I did find some errors and so I hop out of my vehicle and I noticed there's a a police car behind me. Maybe he thought I was trespassing, I don't know. So, I approached thinking maybe I'll clarify, make sure everything's okay. And I I go to the back of my vehicle, I was going to get my equipment. As well as as I walked up. I I got to the back of a our work truck, put a single hand on the vehicle when Deputy Anthony stepped out of his vehicle, gun drawn. He He had his Glock drawn. He had good trigger discipline. It was pointed at the ground. It wasn't pointed directly at me, and and that put me at ease a little bit, and I just wasn't sure what was going on. So, I went into full compliance mode. Whatever he asked is what I gave. I I'm not going to sit there and argue with a deputy, let alone one with a gun drawn. Takes me to the back of his patrol car, puts me places me in the back seat. I notice several other deputies have now shown up. Two female officers and two additional male officers arrive at the scene, and I don't really know what's going on. No one has spoken to me at this point, and I'm just waiting patiently for them to clear the vehicle and confirm that I am alone. And after I'd say 10-minute period, maybe 15 max, Deputy Anthony steps back into the car with me and asks me or first he reads me my Miranda rights, and and says, "Do you want to waive your right to remain silent?" I say, "Yes." And I ask if I'm currently under arrest. And he says, "No, you're currently detained." I ask, "What what is going on?" And he says that the car has been reported stolen. And I said, "Well, I'm sure that's just a clerical error. I'm sure you guys will get this figured out." He says, "Okay." He gets out. He has some discussion with the surrounding deputies. He gets back in the car and asks me more questions about the car. And he says, "Something's just not making sense." And he's on his computer, and he's working through his computer. When finally he shows me his computer. [music] He's like, "You know what? Just take a look. This is what where we're at and what what is going on." He says He showed me his computer. What exactly I'm looking at, I don't know. I'm not familiar with their their their systems or what they use or what programs they use, but he said he said, "See right here where your name is green or the your license plate is green." I don't know which one it was. A few minutes ago it was red. And to which I replied like, "Oh, it's updating in real time. Like what is this?" And he says, "Well, the the system flagged you as someone who has stolen this this vehicle. And now it's saying that your vehicle has not been stolen." And Robert's not the only one victimized by this technology's margin of error combined with police rushing to judgement. Well, hi there. Well, how are you doing? Doing so good it should be illegal. Is Krisana available? Um she is. Though she's taking a nap. I'll go and see if she can come out. Yeah, that's fine. Hi there. How are you? Good. How are you? I'm good. Krisana, my name is Sergeant Jamie Milliman with the Columbine Valley Police Department. Okay. know Do you know why I'm here? No. Okay. [laughter] Uh you drive through the town of Bowmar quite often? Nope. You don't? Oh, no. I work from home. [laughter] Okay. You know we have cameras in that town and you can't [music] get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing, correct? Okay. Okay. You say you don't drive there, but you've been driven through about 20 times the last this month? Probably my husband or I. Okay. But but this is you, right? Uh both of us, yes. We drive the same vehicle. Okay. So, you have no you're you're going to stand by you don't know why I'm here. I do know. Okay. [laughter] Okay. There was a theft of a package from 5245 Ridge Trail [music] on Tuesday. Um like I said, we have cameras everywhere in that town. You can't get a breath of fresh air in or out without us knowing. You know the the quality on the camera doorbell you have. Yeah. I've got that on my phone right now of you taking that [music] package. My name is Chrisanna Elser and on September 27th, 2025, Sergeant Jamie Milliam came to my door accusing me of a $25 package theft. [laughter] $25 package? $25. So, I was trying to figure out what was he talking about. And did he have evidence of the theft? Well, he claimed he's done an extensive investigation on it and he basically just showed me a picture of the truck going through the neighborhood. And that was your truck? And that was my truck and that was a time I went through the neighborhood on Monday. He kept saying Tuesday, which added further confusion because my husband, again, our vehicle has cameras and my husband works at a security location. And so, he said, "I can prove that she didn't have the truck on Tuesday, so you're way off." I have you on camera. Okay. You taking a package and walking away. Is there any reason why you would have done that? Nope. Do you know anyone that lives on Ridge Trail? [music] No. Okay. Well, then I'll make this easy since you're just going to deny it. I'm going to issue you a summons that you'll be showing up in court in Jefferson County. [music] Well, can I see this video? If you go to court, you can. If you're going to deny it, I'm not going to extend you any courtesy. If you're going to lie to me, I have you roughly roughly 20 times this month alone. And here's when you left at 12:09. That's when you left town. Wait a minute. Take a package. Well, there's no shushing. I don't need to be I need to know where this is. We have cameras on our truck, so we can show you exactly where we were. I already know where you were. I have it on camera. I have you on camera walking up, ringing the doorbell, taking the package and literally running away. You on camera doing this. It is her. It is 100%. It is locked in. There is zero doubt. I I know it's unbelievable to you. I get that. I get that this is a shock to you. Well, he would not show me the picture of me accusing me taking the package on there and so that would have really cleared I think a few things up. So, that was a little concerning. And what was very much entertaining is that if he had done his proper due diligence at his own office, he probably would have saw that my truck was parked in front of the other Flock camera the entire time. Uh but we're assuming he had to see in the vehicle at some capacity to see that I looked like that individual cuz he was providing nothing else to say, "Oh, here I see you getting out of the truck and here I see this person stealing." He didn't have any of that. He strictly had this is your your vehicle and then this looks like you. Well, how did you put that together? So, this police officer is using Flock cameras to argue you committed a crime and you have all of your own cameras to prove that you didn't commit the crime. Mhm. If you watch the Ring camera footage of the woman who actually stole the package, it is 1,000% not you. You can easily see that. Yes. Yet he still thinks it is 100% you. I'm sure he does. I mean, even I spent 2 weeks reaching out to the mayor, the town council, the supervisor, the chief of police trying to get somebody to return my phone call and we even went in person down there and the town attorney came by and he even want didn't want to hear from us either. And lo and behold, the very next day he posted on the Neighbors app saying, "Can anybody give him more evidence of my truck in the area?" Where He The officer posted it on the Neighbors app. Yep, the Columbine Valley Police Department. legal? I don't know. I guess he was collecting more evidence where I could have made his job way easier if he would have just contacted me back. I said to him, I said, "Would We have evidence to provide to you." He said, "Uh no, I'll see you in court. You can see you the evidence I have in when you go to court in 2 months." Well, you you have to appear for this. You're way we can see this video or anything now. If you go to court, you may. Why can't we see it now? Because you have not been honest with me, so I'm not going to extend you any courtesy of showing you a video when I don't need to. show you videos No, you cannot. I can I can show you Okay, show me then. No, you're not being honest with me. If You guys have a good afternoon. Around noon. No, it was exactly noon when it was stolen. Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing. It sounds like he's flexing that they've constructed a panopticon. They can see you at all times and they know your every action. Mhm. How do you feel about that? That's a little scary. And he comes up and and we have a a short discussion. I'm like, "What What What um How did this happen?" And he said, "It was something with our system with have an issue with it." It We shook hands. The deputies didn't actually leave and I had to continue work at their location within a few feet of them, in fact, and to which I overheard them having discussion about the issues they are having with this new system and why this may have happened. And what this the surrounding deputy that he was asking this to said, "Well, one possibility is uh on the license plate it used an O instead of the zero and flagged it or his name is similar to the the person we actually are looking for." I realized in that moment, "Oh, this isn't like a person had made a mistake. Their [music] computer system had flagged me." Now, I just want this solved. And then I spent the next 2 weeks every single day I documented every time I called somebody to get somewhere to stop wasting everybody's time on this. And why are you so concerned at this point? Because it is. It's your reputation. [music] I mean, I'm very fortunate. We've lived in our neighborhood for a while. I mean, we looked at our cameras. We saw quite a few of our neighbors go by. Uh they of [music] course seeing a police car in your neighborhood that doesn't normally see a police car, they probably were, "What's going on there? Is it a domestic dispute or Sure. else going on?" And thank gosh we'd lived here for a while, so we didn't have that that stigma, but uh cuz that that $25 package over the rest of my career, which I'm hoping would be a long one. Thank the heavens above. I have a great employer. My boss saw some I I reached right out to her. I said, "Hey, here's the situation." She said, "Yeah, I have to let my other people know, HR, all them." And she's like, "I I can't say what's going to happen." But she I sent her all the evidence so that they could see it and be like, "Hey, it's very clearly not her. This isn't just accusatory." And she said, "I don't know what they're going to do, you know, administrative leave or anything like that because we don't know. It's it's an open criminal case at the moment." And thank goodness everybody saw and said, "Are you kidding me? That is not you." Do you support Flock cameras? Clearly, I am very in favor of surveillance, privately owned. I mean, I think anybody in this nation would sign a release saying, "Hey, we're looking for a lost child. Can we have all the digital evidence from this time to this time?" Everybody would be like, "Here, take everything you want and everything you get. I don't care if you're surveilling me to find that child." But the fact that they can just go around and start doing criminal investigations and come so accusatory, they kind of made a bad stain on it. Now, when Flock isn't being used by police to accuse innocent people of committing crimes, it's sold as a tool to HOAs and police departments to recover stolen vehicles and help solve crime. But how is it actually being used by the federal agencies using them either indirectly or directly? I met up with a DEA task force officer to understand how federal agencies access Flock by working together with local law enforcement. How long have you been aware of Flock and ALPR cameras? Uh several years now. Uh I mean, it's probably been myself over for [music] DEA's most biggest use for Flock cameras would be through the use of uh hot [music] lists um and tracking vehicles across the country. The DEA knows of a vehicle that [music] might be used for narcotics trafficking or cash smuggling. Just like with any LPR camera, it can be tracked whenever it gets alerted and hits a LPR camera, just like it would be used [music] by any other law enforcement agency. It's an example everyone can understand. An homicide occurred and a witness [music] grabbed a license plate of the fleeing vehicle. That license plate can be put into hot list in flock and every time that vehicle drives past the flock camera, a law enforcement could be alerted. Throughout your experience, what is an approximate rate of error you've observed? I would say probably around 5% maybe. It's not a perfect program, but it is up to the user to do their due diligence. It could interpret an E as an F. It could mistaken, [music] you know, numbers that look that could look like a letter or vice versa. Also, depending on the quality of a picture that it captured because there's also different factors in play like weather, uh lighting conditions. Is there a number counts of how many police investigations have used Flock in any capacity? I would probably say uh 75 to 280%. But things get a bit more sinister when you realize these aren't just license plate readers. I pulled the Flock search logs from Wheaton, Illinois, a tiny 55,000 person suburb, and examined over 10,000 searches. The median search searched across more than 1,100 networks and nearly 16,500 cameras. That's right. A small town officer running a routine traffic infraction wasn't checking a local camera. Nope, they were querying a nationwide surveillance grid. And one in eight of those searches never even used a license plate at all. They just described the vehicle's characteristics. Like when an officer typed "pick up Ram silver gray." That's not a plate reader. That's an AI-enabled search engine. And the only justification an officer needs to run a search is nothing at all. In Wheaton's logs, 89 searches ran with the reason field left blank. Flock is a massive surveillance network that runs entirely on the honor system. With great power comes great responsibility. know this was happening until I was the victim of it. For example, we had to to vote legalize marijuana here in Florida, but there was no vote to legalize the mass surveillance of people with AI [music] cameras. How do you answer that? point. How helpful is Flock? Well, very helpful. Flock typically it does lead to positive outcomes for cases that we wouldn't be able to solve without Flock itself. Hopefully that's that's step of news I should be shared. I would say the biggest example recently is the shooting Austin had, the mass shooting, and then they were able obviously capture the offender because of Flock. Flock obviously read the plate and led law enforcement in the right direction. And you basically reach out to anyone that has a Flock account and then you kind of get what you need and you ask for what you need. It's it's quite that simple. Yeah, as long as your home agency continues to purchase Flock and pay for it, you will have access to it. And that's because you're a task force agent, right? Yes. Do you guys ever obtain Flock data without a warrant? Do you guys need a warrant to request information from Flock? How does that work? Flock LPR cameras are faced towards public roadways and public highways. [music] Fourth Amendment doesn't apply on the public road, so there is no warrant needed. It's because there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. Let me give you an example. Tyler walking out of his house wearing this. He doesn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy of keeping [music] this shirt private. However, if he has drugs in his pocket and he puts it in there, there's a reasonable expectation of privacy inside these pockets. There's a reasonable expectation of privacy inside of the trunk of his car. There's a reasonable expectation of privacy in certain places that you would believe it is. And if there isn't, there's ways for me to show that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy. And if the cops get that evidence to show that, "Oh, well, this can lead to the murder." I'll say, "I don't care about that. All I care about is did you violate my client's rights? If you violated my my client's rights, you could not use this piece of evidence against him in court." No warrant is needed for it. Permissions I'm seeing here are from like private business cuz of that is their private property. So, if someone is Flock on let's say your Flock account, can that be used as probable cause? No. No. So, when we hear these like stories of people using let's say a screenshot of Flock as their probable cause, is that just sloppy policing? What's your perspective? So, that's just circumstantial evidence. Uh putting a vehicle near the scene of a crime, you know, in the ideal world would would help an investigation, but obviously that's only one part of it. But the thing is, the Fourth Amendment exists because British officers could search any home they wanted without naming who they suspected or why. So, us Americans wrote a rule, suspicion first and then the search. But Flock has built records everyone, stores it, and lets police decide later who they're interested in. The exact power the Fourth Amendment was written to take away. While law enforcement and some lawyers will tell you there's no expectation of privacy in public and that under decades of Fourth Amendment precedent, a camera on a pole isn't searching you, it's just watching you. You never think it's going to happen to you, you know? What are the odds that happens to one of approximately 400 million Americans just doing their job. You never think it's going to happen to you until it does. And since it did happen to me, the only uh perspective I can give is like if it's happening to me, it's happening to somebody else. Where there's one, there's two. Where there's two, there's more. Uh I'm just worried that it will just create this we know exactly where you are every single moment. Uh, [music] there's no ambiguity, which is great in the sense of crime, but not in the sense of just life. Like, [music] if you're not feeling well and you call into work, is there now going to be a system where your work can call in and say, "Well, is she really not feeling well? Did she leave her house? Let me see the camera on her house." You know, "Oh, she There she's getting in the car. She looks well enough to me." kind of thing. So, now it becomes this whole kind of thing. I mean, same thing with [music] any infidelity or anything. It'd be like, "Well, I'm going to my friend's house." And really you're going somewhere else or And people should have the right to cheat on their spouses without being spied on by Big Brother. Exactly, yep. Should the American people be afraid of Flock? No. I can't think of a single outcome why why an everyday American citizen that obviously will use a police when they're a victim of a crime should be afraid of a tool that is just a tool for law enforcement to try to help solve certain crimes that they might not be able to solve without Flock. Uh, there are obviously bad apples and there's been some examples of misuse of Flock, but that is by the user, uh, not by the program itself. This, uh, the data that's being used is for police agencies and law enforcement to help solve crimes for everyday people. It's not being sold to Big Brothers or anything like that. You said the feds do not have access to Flock? No. They don't? Not even indirectly? Well, yeah, indirectly I would say yes, obviously people within the federal government can have access to it and uh, use it for the right purposes. Um, but most recently there are pilot programs being run by Flock, uh, for federal agencies where they [music] where they will have direct access to Flock. Well, I mean, look at the the movies we grew up watching, uh, the books we grew up reading. They were all based in dystopian governments who, uh, could have started off as benevolent, but they're not always going to be the ones in charge when there's a transfer of power, maybe one day there won't be someone so benevolent in control of such powerful technology. I would say to Flock, there is no real benefit to surveilling the American people. [music] The American people are not someone who can be controlled. We are not someone you can surveil and tell what to do. We are a rebellious people. To no one's surprise, as more and more Americans begin to notice these cameras, more and more people want them gone from their communities. I showed up to a block Flock protest in Florida with local Floridians fighting for a Flock-free future. But real quick, I'm on the road for most of the year, whether it's villages in India, islands in Indonesia, or rural America 2 hours away from anything. No urgent care, no pharmacy, nobody coming to help. 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Full-on Flock out? Flock Flock out, yeah. Okay. What happens to countries that provide you security over liberty? Tell me. Look at China. Look at North Korea. Uh the government is increasingly surveilling on our private lives and we should do our best to stop that. And so one of the things we want to look out for is not just necessarily the Flock cameras themselves, but the infrastructure that's going to supply it. We They're going to need data centers. They're going to maybe have to pull pave over more of Florida just to have either the data centers themselves that are going to monitor these cameras, that are going to spy on each individual person, and then they're going to use that information to do whatever they can. Fine fine you for crimes that aren't even crimes yet. And cops keep saying if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about. What are your thoughts on that? Um I had nothing to hide during COVID, but they still arrested people for walking down the beach. So um I don't trust the government. I think they're full of bull crap. I'm here to block the Flock just like everybody else cuz uh I'm also uh helping try to block the data centers. So any piece of the surveillance grid, I'm against. If it's affecting our health and privacy, I'm I'm I'm all for fighting against it. Do you think peaceful protests that gets anything done? Yeah, I think it's it's the way. Um if you don't listen to the people, they will eventually riot. You've seen it happen in in throughout history. But I think the right way is to to ask questions and to hold our elected officials accountable so that we can uh just get it done the right way first. I'm here because I am respectfully protesting these Flock cameras. I believe they're unconstitutional and it is slowly turning not only Florida, but the United States into a Chinese surveillance state. This is disgusting and deplorable and I believe our individual freedoms are at risk. We as Floridians need to take a stand as a common people to tell our local leaders sitting in these offices that more or less take a paycheck, get them out. You know, I've had a couple of them in my neighborhood. All you got to do is just contact the HOA. For absolutely no reason, they'll review the cameras and anybody can get in trouble for anything without even seeing what's actually going on. It's ridiculous. You know, it feels like we just live in a straight-up surveillance state. Mr. Fishback, how are you? The organizer of this event is running for governor of Florida. He says it would be very simple to get rid of these cameras. We are neck and neck. The polls have us neck and neck in this race to go on to win on August 18th. And what's popping up all over the state, these Flock cameras? If it's about license plates, why are they pointed outside of playgrounds? Why are they pointed at schools? Why are they pointed on hiking trails? I think a lot of people think that they're simply just used to scan license plates and make sure that the right people are in the right places, but what it's been used for in the past, what it could be used for in the future is uh indicative of a surveillance state, and I definitely think it's something that we should not have in our society. It doesn't matter what your intention is. May Maybe they have the best intentions. Sure. How quickly will this be weaponized against us? And so, we have to stop this right here and now. And in Florida, it's always been that beacon of liberty in our country. We're the ones who show the entire nation that you can, in fact, not lock down and keep your state open, and we'll do it again here with Flock. Um She said, "What's a Flock?" Can you answer that? Uh Flock camera is a private company that's been licensed by the United States government to put cameras that are back that go to AI databases on the back end to sift through data and spy on Americans. You don't want people taking photos of you and your kids as you drive around Florida? Oh, no, no, no. I mean, it's just too much craziness going on in the world. And then you got these people from other countries. You just never know. It's It's just way too much. And then you got this AI I mean, the alien type stuff from the Pentagon. And Okay, true. you you never know what's really going on and how that information cuz obviously the it the art of the aliens or whatever you want to call it. Yeah. are way smarter than us. They're They're things go like that. So, what if they have a way to tap in, then clone a person? I don't know. Would you sacrifice a little bit of privacy and freedom for a safer neighborhood? I didn't even like when they said that the TVs are watching you. We don't trade safety for freedom here in America. I mean, it's It's as simple as that. Well, when you're having something monitor you as you leave your house, as you go to the grocery store, everywhere you go, I mean, that is just insane. It's just It's It's a violation of our fourth amendment, right? vote to block the flock? Yeah, I'll block block the flock. This is an abomination to our founding fathers, to the United States Constitution, to the Bill of Rights, and most [music] specifically to the Fourth Amendment. We will not be spied on. We will not be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures, and that is [music] exactly what the flock surveillance state has become. Across Florida, there are 4,000 flock cameras. You can see them here. They're not just on roads. They're outside of churches. They're as you walk into hiking trails, next to playgrounds, your kids' elementary school or preschool. Ask yourself, why would the government need to know where you are at all times? There are two governments in the entire world that attempt to know where their civilians are at all times, Communist China and North Korea, and we aspire to be neither of those. Can you imagine what the pandemic would have looked like if Anthony Fauci and his minions could have logged on to a flock camera? Good news is, this problem is easy to solve. The flock cameras on this map here, they are funded with your taxpayer money. If elected the 47th governor of Florida, we will block flock cameras by the simple fact of preventing taxpayer money from going to flock cameras in your neighborhood, in your city, your county, on our highways, anywhere in the state. Right. Florida's not China. Orlando's not Beijing. It's called flock for a reason, because they treat us like animals. That's what this is. Well, if you've got nothing to hide, what are we worried about? That's what tyrants say. That's what the communist leaders of Cuba and Venezuela say. That is what the communist leaders of North Korea and China say. Well, if we're going to go with that logic, if you've got nothing wrong, you got nothing to hide, then what are you worried about? Then why don't we all just wear a wire? Ben Franklin said it best, those who dare to sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither. Thank you very much. [cheering] Flock Flock now. Flock Flock now. License plate reader cameras aside, what's the bigger picture here? Mass surveillance, Palantir, Flock, data centers, Clearview AI, all of it is part of this mass surveillance state, which by the way is playing out in real time in places like China. We do not want a Chinese-style mass surveillance social credit system where if you say something that's anti-Semitic or politically incorrect, you get pulled off the grid. That's wrong and that's unconstitutional in the United States. Your opponents that are running for Florida governor, what are their stances on Flock cameras? Well, one of them on a debate we had 2 weeks ago, one of them said that Flock keeps us safe and I couldn't disagree more. Does it keep someone safe when it's wrongly accusing people of committing crimes they never committed? Is Flock a benefit [music] to some crime? Of course, but it's whether it's a net benefit. Can this technology be used to some degree? Look, would I be opposed to a AI surveillance camera in our airports or at the border? No, because those are high-crime areas. You got trafficking drugs, sex, child trafficking, and there's not really an expectation of privacy at an airport. So, I wouldn't be opposed to it there. But when you're talking about on a rural hiking path, outside of a church where people are going to and from with their families, schools, playgrounds, that's where Flock cameras are today. And so, I just don't see how you can justify that. While Flock's defenders say if you've nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear. Then why is the CEO of Flock living behind a gated fortress protected by security guards and changing the car he drives and the route he takes every day? Could it be possible that the very man who made his fortune surveilling every American doesn't like it when the camera points his direction? Could it be possible that he values his privacy, but not yours? And why is Flock not being transparent with the very cameras they're placing all over America? So, I met up with a security researcher who found a way to map every one of these cameras using public data alone, and along the way found some concerning vulnerabilities any evil hacker could exploit. There is an ongoing project right now called D Flock, and you can see right here that there is Florida is flocked. And yeah, Florida is flocked. Um it covers all of the 50 states in the area. This guy right here is a ESP32 C5, and what's really amazing about this is it does have its own dedicated Bluetooth and wireless uh chips inside of it. So, that allows me to interface and interact with the wireless world around me. So, what's crazy about this is a genius before me came and started developing his own uh detection capabilities for Flock Safety after this. His discoveries led that he was using that Flock Safety is using Bluetooth in order to do so, and I came to figure out that this detection capability no longer worked in my area, and it ended up getting patched essentially. That means that the D Flock movement of documenting these cameras momentarily stopped, and that's a really bad thing because that means that we lost all visibility and all confidence on, you know, where these deployments are. So, my discovery ended up being able to determine pretty quickly if they're not using Bluetooth anymore, the next bet is they're probably using wireless. So, that was the case. Wireless meaning Wi-Fi? Wireless meaning Wi-Fi. So, I ended up decoding the signal that I saw emanating from these various different Flock deployments, and I ended up using a little bit of transmissions magic and decoded some of the data that was in the air. I ended up finding Flock Safety signatures, and that led me let's develop a actual new capability for detections that anybody can use and I made that public and open source for anybody to have. So I could go around with one of these like a metal detector at the beach and find a flock. Exactly. You can put it in your car. You can have it beep whenever you're driving by a flock safety. So without this breakthrough, there's no transparency as to where these cameras are? Correct. Yeah. have to visually see them with You got to visually see them and document them on D-flock which that's way more time consuming than anything. This also has a GPS module built into it which means whenever you intercept and receive a flock safety of detection, it's going to store the coordinates of where that flock safety detection was taken and you can actually upload those results to D-flock. Just like Google Maps, it'll put the camera directly where those coordinates are. So the kids watching at home can go find their own flocks themselves. Well, yes. Exactly. By hunting, I mean just looking at them from afar. Correct. Correct and being able to map them out and be able to identify them from a distance just like we're doing right now. So if you slow down a little bit, there's going to be a flock directly to our right and with my firmware running, we should be able to detect this pretty soon. I think it's right there. You can see that we just drove past that flock camera right there and we were about 50 yards away from it and we were able to reliably detect it. So I literally got flocked doing an illegal turn in a legal park. Soon enough in a dystopian world, I might auto get charged my ticket in my digital wallet. Who knows? The implications are certainly dystopian. Your social credit score is going to go down. It just went down cuz I'm a bad driver. I'm a antisocial driver illegally driving like a villain. Tell me about the infrared capabilities. Yeah, so what's interesting is that infrared capability also gives it access to be able to run at night time. So using your phone with this car passing by, you can actually see the IR sensor kick on right now. blink blink blink. So the vigilantes D-flocking these cameras, they might climb up the pole, sniff the thing. If I was wearing a shiesty, could the IR camera identify my facial features? There's been a bunch of debunked myths on whether or not IR can penetrate through masks, shiesties, bandannas, whatever you want to call them, you name it. And it's been actually proven that they can see with through uh this type of material. So, the IR, the invisible light will actually go through the thin lining of that material, and it can actually determine your facial structure through skeletal development as well as muscular development. First of all, whenever you go through TSA and everything like that, all of that data is retained for training purposes. And if you are actually, like, you know, somebody of interest, they can use that information on in a collection of people's faces that they've grabbed from TSA or just other cameras, and they can look for that suspect who might not be in the system yet. If I've gone through faceless precheck, clear, is it likely that my face is in a database somewhere? Your face is everywhere. And that's that's how I think that they're going to be able to catch some of these people that are destroying these cameras. Those hunting the Flocks will be hunted themselves. [music] Exactly. Using the very technology they're trying to destroy. Yep. Another Flock right there staring me down. It's insulting. Not only in a nice neighborhood, it's outside somebody's house. Here's the detection right there. It's beeping? Yep, it's beeping. It's going off. So, it is vandalized and not able to actually see through the lens right now. You can see that still giving off a signal. So, it is still alive and well. So, whenever you spray paint it, it might not be able to see, but it is definitely still transmitting data or at least attempting to. So, let's go check it out. What do we have here? So, we're in a pristine neighborhood right now. What do we have? Right outside somebody's front yard. They probably don't even know what that is. It says but that Flock camera This one of many AI-enabled cameras tracking your vehicle everywhere it goes. Learn more at defl.org. It's been hit. And it is a Gold metallic spray paint. So, you're going to receive a notification right here, so you can actually see in the output it says one unique Flock last hit zero seconds ago, which means we just recorded it again. Uh but if it's a fresh identification of one, it's going to pop it up immediately. Hello. Hi there, do you live here? Yes. I wanted to ask if you had a minute to explain your thoughts on this Flock camera being outside your home. No, what that camera? That camera right there that's been vandalized? You know when that came to your your neighborhood? Not very long ago. Who put it up? Flock, a private privately owned company. Do you not have any thoughts you want to share before we leave? Yeah, I I probably did not have it on there, but I don't know who to call to take it off. She didn't even know this camera existed. She didn't know who put it up. She didn't even notice it get placed. Hey, you too. You're a good guy. Swiss, we've seen these Flock cameras everywhere. I want to ask you, are they in the business of data collection or security? They're definitely in the business of data collection, sadly. Why do you sound so sad? It's just it's unfortunate because I really do feel like, you know, crime reduction technology could be a thing and it doesn't have to be turned into a global massive surveillance project and program to spy on US citizens. So, the fact that people that we rely on for our safety and our protection are using this technology and abusing this technology against us is just something that I won't ever stand for. Can anything be done to stop surveillance technology like Flock? There are so many different people that are going to their city councils and they are just talking and raising awareness and doing things like that, filing FOIL requests, which are Freedom of Information Acts, uh to find out how these technologies are actually, you know, ingesting data, how they're operating. That is the freedom that we have as American citizens and we need to exercise our rights to be able to do so. Use our voice, use our First Amendment to stop this stuff from being abused. But does peacefully protesting and showing up to your town halls actually get results? What happens when Americans lose faith in the democratic process, their institutions, their elected officials, and believe their voice does not matter. The meeting was overwhelmed when 150 people showed up opposed to using the cameras because of privacy concern. In response at an emergency press conference tonight, Mayor Carmela Men Tello made a declaration of emergency for public safety to use city resources to fund the Flock contract. We will not allow public safety to be used as a bargaining chip, and we will not cave to what is a vocal but small minority. So, I met up with No Mark, a vigilante self-proclaimed superhero in Minneapolis who has taken a more hands-on approach to de-Flock America. Real quick. Sadly, YouTube won't let us show you some of our craziest footage. Waiting for the police. But, if you subscribe to Tyler Rod.com for five bucks [music] a month, you can watch bonus videos I can't upload on YouTube, Get off the porch. GET OFF THE PORCH. and get uncensored and early access to all of our videos. So, go join Tyler Rod now for five bucks a month. Back to the video. I'm in an undisclosed location with No Mark. Who are you? I'm Minneapolis' superhero. Why are you a superhero? I help people in the city. I've seen you trying to stop crime in Minneapolis, but I've also seen you interact with these Flock cameras. You know, I've been taking them down. I'm not a huge fan of these Flock cameras. I don't like how they're using them. Now, I know your mission is to stop crime in Minneapolis. Flock claims their mission is the same thing. Why do you hate them so much? I think the technology Flock has could be used for good, but the way people are using it right now is just not. I mean, it's it's being used to stalk people. Uh it's been used to stalk a lot of women. I think it's a huge invasion of privacy, and honestly, I think it's like against the Constitution. I didn't actually know about them until a few months ago, probably. Um I started doing my research on them, started learning more, and you know, the past month or so, I've just been going out every night, kind of doing what I can. How has the public reacted? Pretty like positively. Everyone seems to be on my side for the most part. I mean, I got a few people that, you know, support them, but it's very rare. It's probably like 98% support me. What is your goal in taking down these Flock cameras? I think my goal is to send a message and encourage, you know, people to fight for what's right. There's no way I'm going to be able to get them all, but I think just by doing like what I'm doing and sending showing that message that we don't support this. Um, I hope it encourages other people to fight for what's right and hopefully people will do the right thing. And do you think peaceful protests can affect any meaningful real change? I think they definitely can. However, I think sometimes you got to do what you got to do. I've seen very few people actually go out and destroy these things. Ah, there he is. There he is. Wow, you scared the [ __ ] out of me. And who is [music] this? Would be my partner, Crosswire. Nice to meet you, man. What's your name? Yeah, I'm Crosswire. I'm partners with Nomark. Essentially just helping out with what he does. So, he scouted out the deflock map and found three cameras nearby. You know, I I've had people, you know, press me a little bit. He's kind of my bodyguard a little bit. Okay. You can throw down, Crosswire? Oh, yeah. Okay, that's all I needed to hear. He's jacked, so. I just Why do you wear the mask? I protect my identity and then more so protect the people in my life. I do a lot of things that, you know, might piss some people off. I've had people arrested before and if you, you know, they know who I am, they can find my information. And how often are you out here deflocking these Flock cameras? Right now, it's every night. Kind of been my main project right now. I use these little stickers, I throw it over the camera, and then I have a little tool in my bag that I just snip the back wire, and then that's it. That's all I do. What are the maximum legal penalties for one to do something like this? You know, honestly, it's kind of a gray area right now. I obviously it's like vandalism. I don't know what the charges could be for that. I I I assume they'd probably charge you with something. Definitely, if you know anyone doing this, be be wary. Are these cameras essentially everywhere in Minnesota right now? Minneapolis, St. Paul area specifically, it's there's a big like the the land of 10,000 Flock cameras here. You know, other places like Duluth, Mankato, smaller cities, they only got like four or five. Here, there's just a ton everywhere. And what motivated you to start deflocking these cameras? I just hate them. I hate what they're being used for. I see all the time, you know, every day it seems there's a new story with someone, you know, usually a police officer using it to stalk people, um usually women. Human use of the technology seems to be leading to a lot of crimes in and of itself. Why do you hate these Flock cameras more than, let's say, CCTV camera in front of a shop like that right there? These Flock cameras are all connected. They all go to the same same database and they can be used to map out exactly everywhere you've been. Yeah, yeah, those cameras are just, you know, it's usually just like one person and it's for their just their building, making sure, you know, they're staying safe. But these ones, I feel they're only used as a cop right here. Enemy spotted. Um I You know, I'm just going Should we should we talk about this later? Yeah, yeah, maybe. Nomark rerouted our path to avoid police detection. I wanted to hear more about why Nomark hated these cameras so much and how he became a vigilante. You know, I saw Minneapolis last year, it was not not a great year for Minneapolis. I just thought, you know, someone should help. There was a shooting right by my house last year. That night, someone got shot right in the head, like right outside my house, and no police ever showed up or anything. It took them like way until they were gone that to show up. The dude was like shot in the head, bleeding out, and there's no one there. No one called the cops. It was just awful. That's what inspired me originally. I was like I I might as well just go out and make sure that everyone's good and like make sure that there's no one like getting hurt [clears throat] out there. If someone was just there to help him, he could have got to the hospital. It could have been okay. So you're trying to fill that gap between what law enforcement can do or wants to do and what the people need? Yeah, for sure. Besides taking these cameras down, what what other things do you do to help the people? I do a lot I get a lot of like requests. I get a lot of messages and emails. People got very like specific things they need me to help with sometimes like, you know, someone stole my bike, can you help me get it back? That's what I started doing. And then it got it started sh- it shifted towards there's this evil company and they're dumping toxic waste into the water. So, they were like, can you go investigate and try to take them down? And Do you think we're headed towards some sort of surveillance state? Yeah, yeah. I think these things are definitely paving that way, for sure. Yeah, and I've also seen they're working on they already have them, the drones, too, as well. But yeah, I know they're I wouldn't be surprised if their mission is just to get one on every single street everywhere. And what happens if that is the case? I think we lose like all freedom. Why is it that you're willing to do this? I I don't want to sit here and wait till we it gets so bad that there's nothing we can do. And I want a good future for all everyone. We're going down a dark hole right now a little bit. I think there's a lot of things that are you see online a lot. It's it's a lot of negative stuff. But I think it can be positive. You're saying if everyone took action on their actual beliefs, real change is possible. Yes, for sure. Where was the cop? He was right there, but he now now he's gone. So, I think we're chilling. So You're going to come up behind it? Uh we're going to go on this side of the street, come up around behind it so it doesn't catch us at all. I I go from behind so they don't see me at all. We're in a very nice neighborhood right now. What's going through your head? Uh I'm just hoping that no one sees me and thinks I'm like a burglar or something. No Mark sees the flight camera. He's locking in mentally. You're about to witness something a lot of people, I'm sure, have dreamt of doing. Except for that. I have a These gloves right here, they're helping me climb these poles really easily. They're like football whatever gloves. Yeah. Super easy to stick to this pole, just climb up real real quick. Oh, [ __ ] This is a good time to go. And what is your methodology? You put on the gloves, what happens next? Um put on the gloves. I got this little tool I use to snip the wire. Um I don't know if it's actually what it's meant for, but it works. Get to the de-blocking mechanism, and you're pulling out a sticker to block the lens. First thing I do, it's really important cuz even after the wire's cut, it will still record. For how long? I believe it's until the battery dies. Um the wire I'm cutting is for the solar panel that charges it, so it will stay alive for a little bit. So your first step is to block the camera and then you snip the wire? Yep. So I block it first so I get in the off chance like I fall or something I slip and my face gets in the camera. He's going in. He's going in to de-flock the camera. Do you think the de-flockers will be flocked? 100%. So flock around and find out. Yep. I mean I think it's honestly low IQ behavior. I think it's a trend. I think people are just are doing it for fun to make videos. You know if if it's people's hellcats and I start keys start getting stolen they're going to go and have cops now some track the car and you know you cut these cameras down then you know [laughter] Okay, he's de-flocking the camera. The sticker is on. Okay, it is blinking red. It's that quick. It's been de-flocked. You de-flocked the camera. What happens next? I usually get out of the city as quick as possible. You get out of the city? So the sticker is now obfuscating the lens itself. You get clear sight the camera is no longer filming and then look at this. The cable itself has been cut. [laughter] The cable itself has been sliced. Yeah, that I mean that camera is going to eventually go be put back up and then now your those people going to be a target of investigation. Someone paid for that camera and they're not going to just let that happen. The whole deal the aspect of of this product is probably the worst. You know placing a huge black pole on the corner of a park or on every few blocks of a residential quiet neighborhood that people walk their dogs with or or drive by to work or school. You know they're going to notice these things one way or another and they're going to start asking questions. That was extremely fast. Probably 5 seconds that happened. Super quick. Doesn't take long at all. It's over that one is done for. They got to go replace it. How much do you think that will cost? Not enough. The company has infinite money but I mean cost them time. Send them a message. That's the most important part. You don't feel like you're criminal you feel like a hero. I mean, I I there's a criminal thing to do, I guess, but I feel like it's it's what what we need. And no mark, you left a mark behind. Is that a symbol of of what? We we want change, and I want to fight for a better future. And there's very well uh maybe a code red that goes in the camera. What happens next? Is Is there that you think they're on high alert now? They could be. Um the thing is like I've checked on the cameras I've already deflocked. Um they're still there. They're still broken. No one's done anything. So, I don't know what the like I don't know if it sends an alert. I got I got to I do more research into it, but I they're still broken. Okay, so ironically right behind us there are CCTV cameras privately owned. And then right over there, you see the Flock camera solar panel fueled. I mean, a very distinct aesthetic, right? A car is approaching. What's going through your head? Hopefully a cop doesn't pass right now. That'd be really important. You would look awfully suspicious, wouldn't you? I would look really suspicious. And we see a lot of people cutting the poles themselves out of the ground, dismantling the Flock camera. Why is your method as follows? Super fast, super efficient. This thing is super handy. Little car is coming your way over here. Okay, he's going for it. Okay, he's going in. The deflocking process has begun. He's deflocking the cameras. It's been deflocked. He's going in for the cable. Crack, snackle, pop. Lights off. Another one down. Cable clipped. Duct tape on the camera. It's attempting to do [music] its IR blink, but it is struggling. I think that might be the Flock camera over there in that street light. Or right over there. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you're right. Can he climb the pole? Look at that thigh grip. He's going in for the Flock. Tape is on. It's over. Flock number three. This will be three Flocks in one night. This cable looks a little bit thicker. And the cable has been clipped. As fast as they came, they disappear into the night. I think people more people should fight for what they think is right and, you know, stand up against the evil um in whatever way they can, you know. I don't know. I know a lot of people can't do what I'm doing. Um a lot of people have jobs and lives they can't risk, but, you know, in any way you can help, I think people should, yes. There is no sacrifice of liberty being taken [music] place because a a camera being placed on public roadway. It's capturing your vehicle being taken to your job at Walmart. So, I would say there are real concerns in this country uh right now, and I think this would fall at the very bottom of the list. So, you're saying to that Walmart employee watching, get your money up before you worry about getting flocked? Yes. Unfortunately, I feel like technology like this is making us look like our adversaries, and we live in a in a country where we talk about freedom and liberty, and we live in the best country in the whole entire world, and I'll stand on that all day long. I love our country. It's just unfortunately not the same country that I grew up in. People say, "Well, Flock helps solve crime." To what extent [music] and at what cost? It doesn't really bother me too much unless they're like right up in my face, and they're like they can see my pubes. [music] Like, that's where I get really, really like worried. Sometimes when they gain power, the momentum keeps [music] growing, and it grows and grows and grows. And so, we the people have to do whatever we can to stop it. Um so, it's like a a tight line of where we can see the intent is there, [music] but sometimes when the government grows too big and grows too strong, then [music] they might take it a step further and say, "Well, maybe there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in your house." Well, it reminds me of a quote from one of our forefathers. Uh those who are willing to give up a little freedom to [music] gain a little security will lose both and deserve neither. After surveilling the CEO of Flock for 3 days, my private investigator found three separate cars, three separate routes, and three different plates of the man who made his fortune recording your license plate changes his own every day to preserve his privacy, then what does that tell you about the value of privacy itself? The reality is the evidence that Flock prevents crime is non-existent. Cities that have been covered in Flock cameras saw the same crime reduction as cities with none because crime fell nationwide everywhere at the same time. Flock simply stood in front of a falling curve it didn't cause and called it proof. That's the trick, taking a national trend and rebranding it as their result. Correlation sold as causation. [music] But of course, Flock cameras have helped law enforcement solve crimes. That's real and Flock will never hesitate to take credit for any case they're remotely involved with while making sure to blame police officers when their technology gives them false positives. For anyone to call these cameras effective is to make a much bigger claim. [music] It's to say that every dollar spent on Flock is the best possible use of that dollar. Better than every single alternative it competes with. And look at what that dollar actually buys. In Oakland, California, Flock cameras produced more than a million alerts in a single year. So many that the police department had to switch the stolen vehicle notifications off because it didn't have enough officers to chase them. They built an alarm system that nobody was around to answer. So let's ask the real questions. Is blanketing America in Flock cameras the best use [music] of money when the same money that could hire investigators to reopen a quarter million suspended cases is spent on more cameras instead? Are the innocent families flagged by this technology, ordered onto the pavement at gunpoint over a misread plate, worth it? Is the total loss of privacy for every American who drives, logged, time-stamped, and searchable worth the occasional stolen car recovered after the fact because that's the trade. Not safety for privacy, but the feeling of safety in exchange for the real thing we chose not to fund.