Reported on Flock's Cameras. Now I'm One of the System's Mistakes

A dispute over automated surveillance tools is at the center of this story, in which the author says he briefly became the subject of police attention after errors tied to Flock Safety’s systems. The author describes a viral body-cam incident in which he and his wife were surrounded by police after authorities allegedly believed he had committed grand theft auto involving a $155,000 Range Rover. He links the attention to a broader national debate about AI-powered cameras that police and federal agencies can use to track people’s lives. He references a recent episode of The Drivecast featuring Matt Hurewitz, an Ent.AI CISO, discussing how license-plate cameras can track routines without a warrant. The author claims Flock’s automatic license plate readers use a technology called SignalTrace to scrape Bluetooth hardware codes from smart devices, building a digital map of daily life. He says the episode covers his encounter and the surveillance-state concerns around America’s roads, without reporting any specific outcome or correction from authorities.