Flock Just updated its Terms and Service August 21st 2026 …and they are committing a FEDERAL CRIME ⚠️🚨
Flock cameras query the National Crime Information Center, the FBI's criminal database. This data is Criminal Justice Information.
Some of the images Flock feeds into its AI pipeline only exist because an FBI database query triggered an alert.
The FBI has incredibly strict laws (the CJIS Security Policy) stating that any data coming out of their system or anything derived from that data is protected federal property. It cannot be used for commercial profit.
Flock's says they strip the metadata (the GPS location, the timestamp, and the text of the license plate) from the image and claim, "Look, it's just an anonymous picture now! It's no longer federal data."
But Flock's machine learning models have been trained on Customer Data. Section 4.1 explicitly authorizes this. Customer Data includes NCIC hotlist matches.
ALPR reads triggered by FBI criminal database queries are Criminal Justice Information. Flock has fed this data into their neural networks to train their plate recognition algorithms, their vehicle classification models, and their predictive analytics.
When the FBI demands CJIS purging upon contract termination, Flock cant comply. The influence of the criminal justice data is permanently embedded in the trained weights of their neural networks. You cant delete "training data influence" from a machine learning model without retraining the model from scratch. The data has been mathematically absorbed into the model parameters. It is structurally inseparable.
Flock has created a situation where They baked federal criminal data into commercial AI models. They classified those models as Flock Property. They wrote a perpetual license to keep using them. And they made all of it survive contract termination.
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ALSO OWNERSHIP CONTRADICTIONS ⚠️🚨
Flock is speaking out of both sides of its mouth
To Police and the Public: Flock publishes blog posts stating, "We do not own your data. Customers own and control everything." This satisfies privacy advocates and local city councils.
To Investors and Wall Street: Flock’s legal Terms of Service state that Flock owns all "Property," which explicitly includes the machine learning models and the mathematical outputs generated by the system.
Also Flock publicly states they "don't share customer data with 3rd parties like Palantir," they are using hyper-specific legal definitions. They might not share the raw customer footage, but nothing in their terms stops them from sharing or selling the AI models that were built using that data.⚠️
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Red Flag 1 : Section 2.3 Service Suspension. Flock can cut off police access based on "reasonably suspected violation" determined by Flock alone, with no remedy for the police. A private company can blind a police department's surveillance system unilaterally.
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Red Flag 2 : Exhibit A Insurance Limits. Flock carries $5 million in cyber liability and $5 million in errors and omissions, shared. For a company handling FBI criminal data for 6,000 agencies with 120,000 cameras. A single data breach exposing NCIC records nationwide would cost hundreds of millions in liability. Flock is structurally underinsured, which means the cities and the federal government bear the uncompensated risk.
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Conclusion🚨
Flock is not a camera company. Flock is a data company that uses cameras as collection devices and police departments as legal authorization shields. The August 21, 2026 terms reveal the corporate strategy with precision.
The perpetual license. The survival clause. The Flock Property classification of machine learning models. The metadata retention carve-out. The prohibition on police touching hardware. The liability cap. The arbitration fortress in Georgia. Every single term is designed to achieve one outcome: Flock keeps the data forever, no matter what the city decides to do.
The entire premise of The Dark Knight was that using cellphones for mass surveillance technology was too evil and dangerous to be allowed to exist, Flock Cameras are tracking law abiding citizens 24/7 despite ZERO crimes being committed.
State Reps in Ohio are preparing to ban Flock and mass surveillance technologies at the state level!
We need to do this in every state.
https://t.co/Nz9yuM5TGT
Sign the petition to ban in Texas: https://t.co/T47Ew83Mby
Sign the petition to ban in Georgia: https://t.co/QihRbV4Nk7
All other states: https://t.co/ADZdaIpLJB
Imagine you, and your wife are returning a package to Kohl’s department store, you look up and you’re surrounded by four police cars telling you to get out with your hands up.
Turns out the driver’s license plate came up stolen and was picked up by flock cameras. Problem is the car was not stolen. Some human input the license plate wrong, and the plate came up stolen in California..
He was detained by the cops for an hour as he was explaining that he runs a social media platform that test drives cars for different dealerships, and car manufacturers, and he had proper paperwork with him to prove this. He finally got it sorted.
The company laughingly says that this occurrence is rare, but actually it isn’t.
If this can happen this way to him, it can happen to anyone.
On January 1, 2024 there were 440 flock cameras in the US.
One year later that number was up 10x to 4,511
In January of this year it had increased another 12x to 54,072
And in just the last 8 months it has ballooned to almost 129,000
They are building a surveillance prison in realtime at lightning speed and anyone trying to convince you this is a nothingburger is either grossly incompetent or a very bad actor.
On January 1, 2024 there were 440 flock cameras in the US.
One year later that number was up 10x to 4,511
In January of this year it had increased another 12x to 54,072
And in just the last 8 months it has ballooned to almost 129,000
They are building a surveillance prison in realtime at lightning speed and anyone trying to convince you this is a nothingburger is either grossly incompetent or a very bad actor.
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Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
The mass exit of Republicans has begun.
People are just fucking DONE with being lied to and betrayed.
They would rather be politically homeless than stay in an abusive marriage with the GOP.
Fuck the midterms.
I am proud and thankful to have served in the U.S. House of Representatives with my friend Thomas Massie, a giant among weak pathetic men.
Releasing the Epstein files was our demise.
But it was worth every single bit because now everyone knows the truth.
You are ruled by the Epstein class that cares nothing about you and your elected leaders are bought and controlled by a foreign lobby.
Tonight the future of the Republican Party was destroyed.
The Real America First Movement will rise led by the younger generations, who hate the old guard with an unquenchable passion.
Let us pray that we have a country left by the time these creatures are gone.
$32 million dollars and an entire administration mobilized to destroy one congressman.
His crime?
Demanding answers about Epstein class abuse networks, and refusing to let child predators hide behind political cover.
If that level of firepower doesn't tell you who's being protected, nothing will.
Go Massie!