It's interesting to read how flock is positioning themselves as all pro-law-and-order. In countries where I hang out in, Flock would be pretty much illegal.
It's not just Flock positioning themselves that way. It's that they have broad support from American police and other law enforcement agencies.
My state (WA) is currently trying to pass a bill that places considerable restrictions on Flock - not an outright ban, but limits on data sharing, how long data can be retained etc; really basic stuff that you'd think wouldn't be controversial. So far as I can tell, every single LEO organization in the state is vocally against it.
In the Netherlands the municipality would remove all the cameras; and the national authorities would fine the company into the ground and arrest key persons.
In Belgium much the same, except multiple overlapping authorities would tear it apart.
Germany would dissolve the company, destroy their data, hunt down many of the employees for criminal conspiracy; and the Bundestag would hear of it. Germany has... experience. [1]
[1] Depending on legal theory. I'm going for the good old 'and we're going to put them in prison for 200 years' worst case scenario. ;-)
