Surveillance Expert: "I'll Go to Jail for This!" The Hacker Exposing America's Secret Spy Network (Video)

In this 4 September 2026 published video, host Jack Neel talks with cybersecurity and surveillance expert Joshua Michael which centers on the massive scale of public data collection, tracking infrastructure, and consumer data vulnerabilities. 

The title’s hook directly references Michael’s claims about what he observed regarding Flock Safety cameras. These devices are heavily marketed to law enforcement and communities as AI-powered automated license plate readers (ALPRs). The interview explores why a growing trend of activists are actively filming themselves destroying them. Michael details how modern, Wi-Fi-enabled cars continuously log data. He highlights the rise of widespread “signal trace” hardware deployed across highways and public transit subways. These scanners capture the unique Bluetooth and Wi-Fi hardware signatures of phones and headphones to identify exactly who is traveling inside a specific vehicle. The discussion unpacks how automotive companies and tech players aggregate location history to quietly sell it to auto insurance firms or utilize the tracking tech for extreme purposes, including monitoring immigration status. 

https://youtu.be/wtWPlVM2Ae0

00:00 – Intro
01:15 – Why Are People Destroying Licence Plate Readers?
03:55 – Joshua Explains Why Flock Cameras Are to the Public
08:40 – Why Business Owners Are Installing Flock Cameras
09:45 – What Kind of Data Do Flock Cameras Collect?
13:40 – Joshua Explains What People Can Learn About You With Your License Plates
16:30 – What’s the Average Number a Person Interacts With a Flock Camera?
18:35 – Ad Break 
20:15 – Can Flock Watch You Through Ring Cameras?
23:20 – Joshua Explains Why Flock is Worse Than Other Surveillance System
26:00 – How Flock Cameras Track You Without a Warrant
30:00 – Joshua Shares the Site That Tells You the Data Companies Have About You
34:55 – Why Joshua Decided to Fight Against Flock Cameras
36:50 – Joshua Explains How Easily Hackable Flock Databases Are
50:30 – How Flock Refused to Fix Their Security Vulnerabilities
51:30 – Joshua Explains How Spies Could Hack Intro Flock’s System
55:00 – Ad Break
56:15 – How Police Officers Can Track You Easily With Flock
58:00 – What’s the Most Disturbing You Found Hacking Flock Cameras?
01:06:50 – Why Joshua Michaels Fears For His Life After Hacking Flock Cameras
01:10:20 – How Flock Might Have Intelligent Officers Working For Them
01:12:10 – Joshua Explains Why Flock’s Vulnerabilities Might Be Intentional
01:13:50 – What’s One Thing About Flock That the World Needs to Know
01:15:40 – Why We Will Live in a Mass Surveillance AI State
01:19:35 – Joshua Explains The Most Disturbing Ways Flock Cameras Have Been Used For
01:24:15 – Is There a Way to Get Around a Flock’s Surveillance System?
01:25:45 – Joshua Explains How He Helps People Disappear From The Internet
01:27:45 – How Companies Charge You Differently Based on Your Income
01:31:20 – Why Social Media Was a Trojan Horse
01:35:10 – How Short Videos Are Literal Mind Control
01:38:45 – What’s the Easiest Way to Get Information Out of Anyone
01:43:10 -  Joshua Explains Why It’s Easier to Compromise Anyone in 2026
01:44:25 – Why Mossad Agents Are the Best Spies in the World
01:46:30 – Joshua Breaks Down What He Knows About the Epstein Files
01:50:45 – Why the Epstein Files Might Be Compromised
01:56:20 – How Palantir Might Become the New Epstein
02:00:40 – Can Flock Cameras Capture Your Phone’s Data?
02:02:15 – Why AI Might Unalive Us All
02:04:35 – Do We Have a Secret Social Credit in the US?
02:06:50 – Why Using Face ID Might Be a Bad Idea
02:16:25 – How Criminals Are Caught With Advertising Data
02:17:10 – Joshua Explains How We Could Learn Who Shot Charlie Kirk With Digital Data
02:20:15 – Why It’s Almost Impossible to Get Away With Crime in 2026
02:21:55 – Joshua Explains How Most Conspiracies Can Be Debunked With Cell Phone Data
02:25:05 – What’s One Conspiracy Theory You Believe It’s True?
02:27:50 – How Elites Are Guided By Religious Beliefs
02:31:15 – Joshua Explains Might End Up in Jail For Exposing Flock
02:33:20 – How Joshua Wants to Be Remembered
02:37:00 – What’s the Best Piece of Advice You Ever Received