It's totalitarianism really that difficult to concept for you to grasp?

Personal data is okay. Authoritarian government data is very very very bad

These people are not arguing in good faith, Flock and ALPR companies know they are extremely unpopular and are pushing PR really hard right now to try to fix their reputation.

Anyone with half a brain can understand that there’s a difference between an individual citizen with a single camera on their own property and a government global surveillance panopticon.