Surveillance

This YouTuber Got Kicked Out of the Flock Convention. So He Ran His Own Surveillance.

Benn Jordan wants the snoopers to be “a little unsettled.”

Matthew Petti | 8.24.2026 5:08 PM

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The surveillance contractor Flock Safety argues that police customers don't need a warrant to track drivers with its automated license plate reading cameras because drivers have "no reasonable expectation of privacy" on public roads. So YouTube host Benn Jordan applied the same logic back on Flock. He sat outside Flock's recent police convention in Atlanta with radio equipment and a drone, which he used to unmask attendees and even listen to microphones inside the convention hall.

"Flock values their privacy. Oh well," Jordan wrote in the title of his video on the convention.

His plans didn't quite start out that way. Jordan, an early and outspoken critic of Flock, wanted to visit the convention to see what the relationship between police and the company was like after a string of cases in Georgia involving police misusing Flock products, he tells Reason. After downloading the conference app, he looked inside the source code and found that it revealed the entire guest list. Jordan alerted Flock to the data breach.

Once the company caught wind that Jordan was coming, it canceled his tickets. But the attempts to keep Jordan out went further than that. An employee from Flock called the hotel to cancel Jordan's room reservation, which he had booked himself, according to a video Jordan posted of a call with the........

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