That's not a refute. As I said, flock is providing no barrier. It's the responsibility of the cops to not use the system illegally.

And the police don't really care [1]. You could almost certainly do that audit nationwide and find huge portions of the police force breaking the law routinely.

That said, I'd certainly support legislation which forced these surveillance systems to require any who wants to use the system to present a search warrant. And to enforce the parameters of that warrant and not allow for searches exceeding it. But I imagine flock wouldn't like that. After all, their entire business model is providing fast and broad searches without requiring a warrant.

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/georgia-cops-keep-get...