{"id":8892,"date":"2026-09-29T20:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/monitoring-americans-like-they-do-in-gaza\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T20:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:35:33","slug":"monitoring-americans-like-they-do-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/monitoring-americans-like-they-do-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring Americans Like They Do In Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IRmP_YvohtA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>THE WATCHERS: Big Brother&#8217;s New Surveillance System<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a good chance a camera logged your car today, and you never noticed it. Flock Safety has put more than 120,000 AI-powered cameras on U.S. streets, in neighborhoods and in store parking lots. An independent researcher&#8217;s map counts over 170,000. Together they scan about 20 billion vehicles a month. In this video, we look at who built this network, who paid for it, who can search your data, and how it compares with surveillance systems used overseas.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd0d IN THIS VIDEO<br \/>\n&#8211; Who founded Flock Safety and how it became an $8.3 billion company<br \/>\n&#8211; The investors behind it, including Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global, and what they get in return<br \/>\n&#8211; The foreign-tie questions: a shared investor with Israeli cyber firm Toka, and U.S. camera footage labeled by overseas gig workers<br \/>\n&#8211; Israeli-made phone-tracking tech (&quot;stingrays&quot;) now bought by U.S. police departments, including the NYPD<br \/>\n&#8211; How Israel monitors Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, and how that compares with surveillance in America<br \/>\n&#8211; What a Flock camera looks like and how to spot one<br \/>\n&#8211; Who can access the data: police nationwide, Border Patrol, private companies and more<br \/>\n&#8211; The backlash: 100+ cities pulling out and a Senate hearing called &quot;Always Watching&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u23f1\ufe0f CHAPTERS<br \/>\n0:00 Intro: Always Watching<br \/>\n0:00 Who Founded Flock?<br \/>\n0:00 Follow the Money: The Investors<br \/>\n0:00 Foreign-Tie Concerns<br \/>\n0:00 Israeli Spy Tech in U.S. Police Departments<br \/>\n0:00 How Israel Watches Palestinians<br \/>\n0:00 Flock vs. Israel: How They Compare<br \/>\n0:00 What a Flock Camera Looks Like<br \/>\n0:00 How Many Cameras, and Where<br \/>\n0:00 Who Can See Your Data?<br \/>\n0:00 Do Investors See the Data?<br \/>\n0:00 The Backlash<br \/>\n0:00 Final Thoughts<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcda SOURCES<br \/>\nFortune \u2013 &quot;Meet Flock, the $8 billion startup backed by a16z and Tiger&quot; (Aug 2026)<br \/>\n404 Media \u2013 CBP access to 80,000+ Flock cameras (Aug 2025)<br \/>\n404 Media \u2013 Flock uses overseas gig workers to build its surveillance AI (Dec 2025)<br \/>\nThe Intercept \u2013 Map of ~300,000 Flock devices (Sep 2026)<br \/>\nResponsible Statecraft \u2013 &quot;This creepy Israeli spy tech is likely operating in a city near you&quot; (Aug 2026)<br \/>\nAmnesty International \u2013 &quot;Automated Apartheid&quot; (May 2023)<br \/>\nThe Guardian \/ +972 Magazine \u2013 Unit 8200 and Microsoft Azure (2025)<br \/>\n+972 Magazine \u2013 &quot;Lavender&quot; (Apr 2024)<br \/>\nNew York Times \u2013 Facial recognition in Gaza (Mar 2024)<br \/>\nCBS Chicago \/ GovTech \u2013 Illinois audit of Flock data sharing (Aug 2025)<br \/>\nRoll Call \u2013 Senate &quot;Always Watching&quot; hearing (Sep 2026)<br \/>\nFlock Safety \u2013 &quot;Does Flock Share Data With ICE?&quot; (company statement)<\/p>\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0f NOTE<br \/>\nThis video reports documented facts and clearly labels allegations and disputed claims. Flock says its customers own and control their data, that it doesn&#8217;t sell data, and that there is no federal &quot;backdoor.&quot; Israel&#8217;s military disputes key parts of the reporting on its AI systems. We include those responses so you can decide for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Support the Work<\/p>\n<p>\u2615 Buy Me a Coffee<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/buymeacoffee.com\/benayah4israel<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd1d Patreon<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/patreon.com\/benayah4israel<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcb3 Donate<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/benayah4israel.org\/donations<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcb0 Cash App<br \/>\n$benayah4israel<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcac Is there a Flock camera in your town? Tell us where in the comments.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udc4d Like, subscribe and turn on notifications for more investigations.<\/p>\n<p>#Surveillance #FlockSafety #BigBrother #Privacy #TheWatchers #ALPR #CivilLiberties #FourthAmendment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE WATCHERS: Big Brother&#8217;s New Surveillance System There&#8217;s a good chance a camera logged your car today, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benayah-israel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/hqdefault-24.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}