Big Brother IS watching, and put in the surveillance cameras, but they are known as license plate readers. Flock Safety is the company that built out a mass surveillance network that ended with the company having to retrain thousands of officers in Illinois on how not to break state law

Two recent statements from the surveillance company—one addressing Illinois privacy violations and another defending the company's national surveillance network—reveal a troubling pattern: when confronted by evidence of widespread abuse, Flock Safety has blamed users, downplayed harms, and doubled down on the very systems that enabled the violations in the first place.

a sheriff's office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion. The officer used a nationwide surveillance dragnet (again: over 83,000 cameras) to track someone down, and used her suspected healthcare decisions as a reason to do so.

ALPR surveillance systems are inherently vulnerable to both technical exploitation and human manipulation. These vulnerabilities are not theoretical—they represent real pathways for bad actors to access vast databases containing millions of Americans' location data. When surveillance databases are breached, the consequences extend far beyond typical data theft—this information can be used to harass, stalk, or even extort.

Flock's insistence that what's happening with abortion criminalization and immigration enforcement has nothing to do with them—that these are just red-state problems or the fault of rogue officers—is concerning. Flock designed the network that is being used, and the public should hold them accountable for failing to build in protections from abuse that cannot be easily circumvented.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/flock-safetys-feature-updates-cannot-make-automated-license-plate-readers-safe 

https://laist.com/news/california-police-license-plate-data-ice-border-patrol-illegal 

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/san-diego-police-license-plate-reader-doj-dept-violated-state-law/509-ae2cbbb0-aaa2-4e10-a476-faadfe47b818 

If the lawyers and lawsuits find the cigarette makers, and gun makers, guilty of the end results, then Flock is guilty for anything done with it's system. Clearly, making an easy way to commit crimes, is being an accessory, and being complicit, in those criminal acts

If police actively tried to find stolen cars, that would alter the balance of good/evil the license plate reader system is responsible for... but they don't. As far as I know, the only thing cops actively look forward to doing, is raising money by issuing tickets for speeding, and criminally abusing anyone without a judge in their back pocket.