The City granted an irrevocable, worldwide right to our data.
Your daily routines. Photographs of your car. Video of your family playing in the park. It can be used for nearly anything they want, or in the contract’s own words, for “other Flock offerings.”
Read the exact contract language
“As between Flock and Customer, all right, title and interest in the Customer Data, belong to and are retained solely by Customer. Customer hereby grants to Flock a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, worldwide license to use the Customer Data and perform all acts as may be necessary for Flock to provide the Flock Services to Customer. Flock does not own and shall not sell Customer Data.”
“Customer hereby grants Flock a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free right to use and distribute such Anonymized Data to improve and enhance the Services and for other development, diagnostic and corrective purposes, and other Flock offerings. Parties understand that the aforementioned license is required for continuity of Services. Flock does not own and shall not sell Anonymized Data.”
“Flock may use the services of one or more third parties to deliver any part of the Flock Services, (such as using a third party to host the Web Interface for cloud storage or a cell phone provider for wireless cellular coverage).”
What if bad actors or foreign countries get hold of our data?
What if Flock goes bankrupt? Remember the 23andMe DNA issue?
“There are 142 city cameras integrated into Flock.”
Springdale Police Chief Derek Wright, in writing. August 31, 2026.
Over 120,000 nationwide. One interconnected system. Washington Post
How did this happen?
Lack of understanding.
Learn more about how this happened and why
Flock trained our city on what to say.
And money.
We have a right to not be tracked every time we leave the house. Period.
People are concerned about their privacy, and they should be.
Flock Safety's artificial intelligence network includes approximately 120,000 cameras.
Washington Post, August 2, 2026
See examples
The technology creates a sprawling mass-surveillance web that alters everyday privacy, maps our personal habits, and can even directly monitor children.
Besides police abuse and invasion of privacy, imagine if China got this data. Or a terrorist organization. Or one of the sex trafficking rings. Approximately 120,000 cameras across the USA. This is too much power for anyone to wield.