THE VIDEO SHELF · flock safety surveillance cameras
This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers
Benn Jordan concludes his Flock trilogy, filmed on a publicly deployed Flock Safety camera, covering a leak of camera feeds reported by 404 Media. He shows the cameras' capabilities, including panning to track people.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as in-depth independent coverage of Flock license-plate cameras and their security and surveillance problems.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Benn Jordan
- Topic
- flock safety surveillance cameras
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2025–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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> I feel there has to be something between "I heard about a thing 7th-hand" and "I actively watch political discourse / read scientific papers", but I'm no longer sure The News, as we currently know it, is it. I have found that some Youtube …
john01dav on Hacker News · 2025-12
In How we lost communication to entertainmentMusician-turning-tech anarchist (?) Benn Jordan is making a very interesting series of videos about Flock cameras, their poor safety, and their gray-area interfacing with local governments: [LINK] [LINK] [VIDEO] [LINK] I recommend them.
gorgonical on Hacker News · 2026-04
In US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology
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