Flock, Axon, Israel, and American Freedom

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From Greg Reese

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Flock cameras capture a complete vehicle fingerprint and use neural networks to identify and track people. Flock’s system can generate “heat maps” charting a vehicle’s movements for 30 days, which can be used to reconstruct a person’s movements, associations, and habits. Flock’s Nationwide Data Sharing allows police in one state to track vehicles in another without probable cause. Flock cameras have been under much public scrutiny lately, and many have been destroyed. But Flock isn’t the only private company helping to build a mass surveillance state.

A Company called, Axon, launched a clip-on streetlight camera called the “Axon Lightpost” in 2025. The device is powered by the streetlight’s socket and is designed to be installed on existing streetlights “in under an hour.” Axon terminated its partnership with Flock Safety in January 2023, which was seen as a strategic move to compete with Flock, but Axon is also less noticeable than Flock and much more difficult to destroy.

The Fourth Amendment requires a detailed warrant with probable cause. But these new surveillance programs are collecting data on everyone without any suspicion, and are in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. Privacy is foundational to liberty. It is an “area within which the individual is free from interference and able to do and think whatever he chooses.” Without private space, individuals cannot develop their own thoughts, or make independent decisions. Privacy ensures the government must rely on the consent of the governed rather than predictive surveillance. Privacy shields individuals from arbitrary interference by the state. And the loss of privacy creates a relationship of domination. Privacy allows for the “mistakes, embarrassments, and false starts” that are part of human life without permanent public record. Modern surveillance systems that make every aspect of public life permanent, searchable, and trackable, are fundamentally incompatible with the freedoms outlined in the US Constitution.

The transition from Flock to Axon is already happening rapidly on a local level. The Axon Lightpost is designed to plug directly into the existing sockets of standard streetlights within minutes. Most U.S. police forces already use Axon body cameras, Axon fleet dashcams, and Axon Tasers. Axon is now adding the Lightpost surveilance tech into their existing software, Axon Fusus, which is already used by most police departments.

Axon Enterprise recently acquire Carbyne, an Israeli-founded emergency call management and 911 AI mapping platform. Carbyne’s platform is being merged with Axon’s ecosystem to power Axon 911, which is already deployed in 49 U.S. states. Axon 911 feeds directly into Axon Evidence, which is already used by over 500,000 law enforcement officers across the United States.

While Carbyne is now owned by Axon Enterprise, Axon has maintained Carbyne’s development center in Tel Aviv, where roughly 80 Israeli engineers continue to code and build the software’s infrastructure.

Section 219 in the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) establishes the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,” which will deeply integrate Israeli technologies, including AI, cyber, and autonomous systems, into U.S. defense procurement. Because Axon is an American company operating an R&D lab in Tel Aviv, the passing of this bill would make it easier for Axon to pursue federal U.S. military contracts using technology built by its Israeli engineers.

By permanently embedding Israeli-designed software, quantum computing frameworks, and AI systems into the bedrock of the U.S. military, the U.S. becomes structurally dependent on a foreign power for its own defense. The “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative” in the 2027 NDAA is designed to “lock in” these technological partnerships. If a future U.S. President or Congress wanted to halt military aid to Israel due to human rights abuses or policy disagreements, doing so would become incredibly difficult because the U.S. military’s own systems would be codependent on Israeli code and components.

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Another Citizen Surveillance Tech Company Is Giving Flock A Run For Its Money

From “dailycaller.com”

A lesser-known tech company called Axon is giving Flock a run for its money when it comes to installing license plate-reading cameras powered by artificial intelligence (AI) into streetlights in the name of “public safety.”

Axon is behind the “Axon Lightpole” — which uses already erected, everyday infrastructure to add AI surveillance components to keep an eye on Americans — akin to the ones manufactured by Flock, which have recently come under fire. The newer technology from Axon that is added on top of streetlights came about as part of a partnership between another law enforcement tech company called Ubicquia.

Given that the Flock units have caused citizen backlash, which has resulted in local governments canceling contracts with them, some governing bodies have gone on to hire Axon to essentially do the same job that the Flock tech did, according to Gadget Review.

A key example of a city that ended contracts with Flock and opened a massive nearly $23,000,000 account with Axon is Denver (as well as Douglas County, Colorado at large), where 100 Axon Lightposts are set to replace 50 Flock devices, the Denver Gazette reported.

In fact, up until about a year ago, Axon and Flock were partners for years in sharing LPR (license plate reader) data. Axon ended that partnership and traded it for a new one with AI infrastructure firm Ubicquia. The new Ubicquia partnership resulted in the Axon Lightpole.

When the Axon Lightpole was announced back in April of 2025, Axon CEO Rick Smith, alongside Ubicquia CEO Ian Aaron, revealed their collaboration efforts on this product could easily add an array of watchful eyes for state entities by adding cameras to millions of common streetlights. 

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Such tools “[allow] police departments to deploy and expand their video and LPR capabilities quickly,” Aaron said during the announcement.

A major selling point the companies stressed toward local governments is that the cameras do not require the building of any new streetlights or infrastructure – they can simply be installed on ones that already stand.

Furthermore, these cameras can be quickly installed in less than a minute, as a Ubicquia staffer named Todd demonstrated before the audience and the CEO’s.

The technology helps law enforcement look up vehicle descriptions by vehicle type, color, etc., which the cameras store, and the information retained from their captures can then presumably help law enforcement narrow individuals based on the data of their registration number or license plate and other relevant vehicle information.

In addition to creating AI policing tools, Axon also develops police body cameras and cloud-based evidence management databases, among other law enforcement and military technology services. 

Axon was founded in 1993.