But Flock doesn't ask for this nor does it gather this information. I know what you are trying to do. You are trying to say this is just the first step to a full invasion of privacy. Except it's not. They are trying to make America safer. They don't want full control of your life. You are taking this example too far to the extreme.
Also Flock cameras just record license plates. Have you ever been to South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore or any other democratic nation with lots of CCTVs? Have you seen the crime rates there? basically 0. I wish we could have those levels of crime in the U.S.
Oh but they do [1][2]!
It's very suspicious that you're being so uncooperative. I'm starting a Flock competitor and we sell our products to law enforcement and private businesses [3]. You seem to be against giving me this data, which feels anti-American and against traditional American values which are clearly afoul of NSPM-7 [4]. This will earn you a label of "potential domestic terrorist" in our database [5]. This, in combination with your "ethnic"-sounding username is enough to gain the attention of our users [6][7], so I suggest you comply to make America safer.
Why don't we start with something simpler? How about just your license plate number, current location, and a photograph of your vehicle taken while you're driving it (ideally along routes which we know you take so that you're not flagged [8][9])? Flock collects this information (along with a history of where that plate was recognized), so surely this shouldn't be an issue?
[1] https://www.404media.co/license-plate-reader-company-flock-i...
[2] https://www.flocksafety.com/products/flock-nova
[3] https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/flock-launches-first-ever-b...
[4] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/coun...
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903556
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavanaugh_stop
[7] https://www.404media.co/emails-reveal-the-casual-surveillanc...
[8] https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveil...
[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46909480
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