The Nationwide Backlash Against Cameras Watching Your Car - WSJ

Mayor Carmella Mantello said the technology has helped reduce crime and solve homicides, robberies and narcotics cases, plus recover missing persons and stolen cars.

That all sounds nice, but the problem is the entire system was built out without a debate in public. I’m glad we solve crimes, but at the cost of photographing and building a database of my movements around town that’s retained for a month?

Flock CEO Garrett Langley, an electrical engineer, co-founded the company after a series of break-ins in his Atlanta neighborhood. He said he supports state regulations and respects criticism and legal challenges from privacy groups. 

He reached the same conclusion that the Chinese Communist Party did: total surveillance for total security at the expense of liberty.