{"id":1399,"date":"2026-07-24T12:56:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:56:50","slug":"is-this-the-future-we-really-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"Is This the Future We Really Want?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/722822_1_.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Is This the Future We Really Want?\" title=\"Is This the Future We Really Want?\" \/><\/div><p><br \/>There is probably a camera on a pole at the entrance to your neighborhood. You&#8217;ve probably stopped noticing it. It is small, solar-powered, unremarkable, and it photographs every car that passes: yours, your neighbor&#8217;s, your teenager&#8217;s. And it reads the license plate, logs the time, and files the record in a national database. The company that owns it is called Flock Safety. Founded in 2017, valued at $7.5 billion, it now operates in more than 5,000 communities across 49 states, and its network scans roughly 20 billion vehicles a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is probably a camera on a pole at the entrance to your neighborhood. You&#8217;ve probably stopped noticing it. It is small, solar-powered, unremarkable, and it photographs every car that passes: yours, your neighbor&#8217;s, your teenager&#8217;s. And it reads the license plate, logs the time, and files the record in a national database. The company&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/722822_1_.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[274],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}