Zach and Elizabeth dive into the escalating pushback against Flock cameras and the government’s attempts to control the narrative. They break down a Colorado intelligence memo attempting to link the anti-surveillance movement to extremists, and analyze Flock’s sneaky new Terms and Conditions that allow the company to sell your data and retain it perpetually. They […]
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Zach and Elizabeth walk through a tour of a real-time crime center and what it actually revealed, then dig into the data behind the “these cameras keep us safe” pitch. New FBI numbers show Flock’s home turf of Atlanta has one of the largest camera networks in the country and some of the worst clearance
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If you’ve got SiriusXM, tune in this afternoon around 4 pm on channel 146. Elizabeth is joining Dan Ronan on On the Move for Road Dog Trucking to talk about highway cameras, automated license plate readers, and connected trucks. Nobody spends more hours under highway cameras, gets scanned by more license plate readers, or drives
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James Dutton, the attorney who took Georgia’s automated school zone speed cameras all the way to the state Supreme Court (twice), joins Zach and Elizabeth for a deep dive into how for-profit surveillance actually works on the ground. James breaks down how out-of-state corporations like Vera Mobility structure these ticket programs, why the burden of
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Zach and Elizabeth dig into the wave of Americans cutting down, vandalizing, and outright destroying flock cameras across the country, from an Air Force engineer facing charges to a man who replaced a downed cameras with American flags. They break down why jury nullification could matter for anyone charged in these cases, and cover a
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Jake Green of Peaceful Sea Productions joins Zach and Elizabeth for a wide-ranging tour through the surveillance state’s latest toys. They start with a throwback: the 2013-era panic over Bitcoin’s energy use, and why nobody in the media seems bothered that AI data centers now consume vastly more power with a fraction of the outrage.
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A Texas town council member throws a public tantrum after his city votes to cancel its Flock contract, and the resulting “Bandera Declaration of Digital Independence” is as unhinged as it sounds. Zach and Elizabeth break down the logical fallacies packed into one man’s attempt to equate mass license plate surveillance with your personal Ring
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The surveillance state isn’t coming. It’s already here, it’s expanding fast, and apparently if you have a problem with that, China put you up to it. In this episode, Zach and Elizabeth dig into the sudden explosion of data centers across the country, why governments at every level are pushing them through over loud constituent
Governments have been making the same pitch for centuries. We’ll take a little of your liberty, and in return we’ll give you safety. It’s not a new argument. It just has better branding and more antennas now. Systems like Flock cameras are sold as the latest version of that old bargain. Some privacy loss, we’re
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The pitch for Flock is always the same: “If you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to hide.” Then a court says the footage is public record, and suddenly cities start unplugging the cameras. In this episode, Zach Varnell and Elizabeth Melton walk through the public records rulings that are forcing Flock programs into crisis
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Zach and Elizabeth break down the surreal case of a Missouri county commissioner facing felony charges for removing a license plate reader — even though the county had already banned them. That sparks a deeper conversation about public surveillance, Flock cameras, inflated government tech contracts, and the illusion of “safety.” Then they shift to the
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Montana is on the verge of enacting the strongest brain privacy law in the nation. Senate Bill 163 — which has now passed both chambers of the state legislature — expands Montana’s Genetic Information Privacy Act to include protections for neurotechnology data. That means your brainwaves, mental states, nervous system signals, and cognitive patterns —
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