Flock Clocker vs Blindspot

Flock Clocker maps where government surveillance cameras are deployed across the United States and shows the public contracts and spending that pay for them, all from public records. Automated license plate readers (ALPR) and similar surveillance camera systems record the movements of millions of ordinary drivers, the overwhelming majority never suspected of any crime. They are spreading fast, often funded through government procurement and approved in city council meetings most residents never see. Flock Clocker mines those public records nationwide, government procurement filings, council agendas, and cooperative-purchasing records, and puts what it finds on a searchable public map backed by cited sources. Mass surveillance, made legible. CIVIC TRANSPARENCY, ON THE RECORD This is a public-records transparency and accountability tool. Flock's network was built to follow the movements of millions of drivers. Flock Clocker was built to do the opposite: it maps the contracts, not the cars. It does not track anyone, scan plates, route around anything, or show real-time positions. Coverage is displayed as generalized area zones, never exact pinpoint locations. We map infrastructure and public spending, not people. FREE - A nationwide surveillance camera coverage map, shown as generalized coverage areas. - Coverage near you or near any address you search. Know what your city signed up for. - Per-area detail: camera count, operating agency, deployment status (deployed, under contract, proposed, or vote scheduled), and a link to the public record behind it. - Follow the public money: the contracts and public spending that fund the cameras. - One saved area. - A free report-an-inaccuracy channel on every record. - Our published methodology and provenance pages. No account is required to use the free map. EVERY RECORD TRACES TO ITS SOURCE Every record carries its source and confidence. Confirmed deployments, contracted plans, and community sightings stay clearly separate. Community sightings come from OpenStreetMap and are labeled "community sighting, unverified." Built to be checked, not believed. WATCH (coming soon) Notifications when coverage changes in areas you care about, including newly proposed deployments and renewal votes. Multiple watched areas. Basic coverage history. PRO (coming soon) The full contract and spending layer, historical coverage trends, agency and jurisdiction analytics, and data export with provenance intact. For journalists, researchers, attorneys, and advocacy organizations. PRIVACY No account needed for the free map. Location is used only while the app is open, to center the map near you. There are no advertising or tracking SDKs in this app. We never sell or share your location or any other personal data, to anyone, in any form. DATA SOURCES AND LICENSING U.S. government procurement and public meeting records, cited per record. Community sightings from OpenStreetMap, (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL): openstreetmap.org/copyright. Published by Crossroads Technologies, LLC. flockclocker.com Public-records transparency for surveillance infrastructure and the public money behind it. TERMS OF USE Auto-renewable subscriptions in this app are governed by the standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Every day, cameras you never see are photographing your license plate and logging where you were and when. Blindspot maps them. WHAT IT DOES See the readers around you. Every known automated license plate reader near you, with the direction it faces and the area its lens actually covers — not just a pin on a map. Get a warning before you reach one. Drive normally and Blindspot tells you when a reader is coming up, whether or not you asked it for directions. Route around them. Ask for directions and you get two options: the fastest route, and the one that passes the fewest cameras. Each shows its exact cost in minutes, so the trade is yours to make. Keep a private record. An on-device log of the readers you have actually driven past. It never leaves your phone. WHERE THE DATA COMES FROM Camera locations come from OpenStreetMap, where they are contributed and verified by the public, and are used under the Open Database License. Blindspot ships with a copy on your device and refreshes it weekly. Public data is imperfect. A device may have been removed, moved, or recorded in the wrong place. Every camera in the app shows when it was last verified and how many people have reported it, and any of them can be disputed from inside the app. PRIVACY No accounts. No analytics. No tracking. Your location is used on your device to show what is near you and to warn you. Your exposure log stays on your phone. Requesting directions or searching for a destination sends those places to Apple Maps to get a route back — that part cannot happen on-device, and the privacy policy says so plainly. SUBSCRIPTION Blindspot Pro - 3.99 USD per week - 34.99 USD per year Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.bestdaylabs.com/blindspot/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://www.bestdaylabs.com/blindspot/privacy/ EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Questions: support@bestdaylabs.com Blindspot is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Flock Safety or any other camera manufacturer, operator or agency. It is an awareness tool for public surveillance infrastructure. It does not detect police, speed enforcement, or checkpoints, and it is not a substitute for paying attention to the road. Do not interact with the app while driving.