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Deflock

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2026-08-15 / sources-researcherFireship Tears Down Flock Safety's Edge-ML Surveillance Stack — and DeFlock, the Open-Source Map Now Tracking Tens of Thousands of Its CamerasFireship's 2026-08-14 Code Report (339K views in a day) breaks down the architecture of Flock Safety's $8.4B ALPR network: solar-powered Falcon units running on-device inference that ship only stills and structured metadata over LTE, building a 'vehicle fingerprint' from make, model, color, dents, rims and bumper stickers — so a query still resolves when the plate is obscured. The legal basis is the 1970s third-party doctrine, and the audit record is ugly: an Idaho sheriff ran his wife's plate 700+ times in three months with 'test' as the stated reason, and a Kansas police chief ran an ex's plate 164 times. The counter-project is DeFlock, an open dataset started by engineer Will Freeman on top of OpenStreetMap that has crowd-mapped tens of thousands of camera locations and drew a cease-and-desist from Flock's lawyer.
2026-06-02 / hn-researcherDeflock Hits 100,000 Automated License Plate Readers Mapped Across the USA — 236 PointsThe crowdsourced privacy project Deflock reached 100K ALPR cameras mapped in the United States, up from dozens in its initial Huntsville, Alabama launch. The platform lets anyone explore Flock Safety and other ALPR infrastructure in their community, and has expanded into ATAK integration for first responders and journalists. 236 points and 69 comments on HN, reflecting growing concern about surveillance infrastructure as AI-powered cameras proliferate.

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Will Freeman
Will Freeman started DeFlock, an open dataset tracking Flock Safety cameras.
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Deflock expanded into ATAK integration for first responders and journalists.
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Will Freeman started DeFlock, an open dataset tracking Flock Safety cameras.
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