Americans (the general public) are a lot more weary of government surveillance than other developed nations. Its one thing that you can get a lot of liberals and conservative to agree on.

Unlike ring cameras which people voluntarily install and the government needs a warrant to access, flock cameras are pretty much exclusively for the government to actively monitor citizens without any court oversight.

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iso1631 2 hours ago | parent [-]

People install ring cameras which record me walking past. Those cameras then push the data to private companies for processing, and are made available to police on a simple request.

ANPR has been a thing for 30 years. Is America just slow on the uptake? Even then it looks like they've been in use for a long time there.

	▲	Workaccount2 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		>and are made available to police on a simple request. That's a "santa claus for adults" rumor. Ring only complies with requests that they are legally obligated to. Otherwise users need to voluntarily share the footage, which more often than not they do.