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236 - Jon Padfield: The Problem of Flock Cameras

September 29, 2026 · 58 min

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Jon Padfield of Business Reform, a YouTube channel performing excellent investigations on the Flock camera phenomenon and other troubling surveillance topics afflicting modern America.

GUEST → https://www.youtube.com/@businessreform → https://www.x.com/Dr_Jon_Padfield → https://brushfirestour.com/

FLOCK CAMERA SURVEILLANCE → https://flocksurveillance.org/

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TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 2:00 – Guest background 8:40 – Explaining the Flock camera phenomenon 19:10 – Who has access to Flock data? 26:10 – Can Flock connect license plate to name? 33:50 – Police surveillance 47:18 – Solution for Flock cameras 55:45 – Final thoughts

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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