It’s good to see people pushing back on the likes of Flock Cameras. But this is a much bigger issue.
Surveillance has been privatized. Things only the FBI used to be able to do, and then only with a warrant, are done routinely, millions of times a day in the US by private companies. An entire industry has emerged to support these private surveillance networks, which are really built to serve law enforcement, at least for now.
Stricter personal data privacy laws, similar to what Europe has, would go a long way to solving the problem. What we have in the US today is, sadly, a surveillance/ police state unlike anything in history.
