FLOCK cameras getting used unprofessionally by cops (not yet illegal) , in the news:

A San Jose Police Department officer has been fired for accessing Flock camera data on a personal phone to help his cousin, who was accused of domestic violence, track down the woman who accused his cousin

https://www.ktvu.com/news/sjpd-officer-fired-after-using-flock-cameras-help-cousin.amp


Records show police justified Flock license plate searches with answers like "LMAO" and "idk"

https://www.techspot.com/news/113857-records-show-police-justified-flock-license-plate-searches.html#google_vignette
https://www.techspot.com/news/113589-new-halloween-video-game-has-banned-australia-not.html

Bonus Round, Flock lied about images storage time on the cameras... and hackers proved it 

Flock claimed that images are only briefly stored on its cameras, but Hackers found encryption keys stored on stolen Flock camera despite company's denials — group extracts more than 27,000 clips, 1.6 million images captured in a span of 21 days from the device

said that physical access is still required to exploit them and that the images are only briefly retained on the device before they’re forwarded to the cloud. However, 404 Media says that a hacking group called stegan0gram found out that this wasn’t the case after they took down a Flock camera positioned over a roadway and analyzed the data stored inside it.

While the hacking group failed to access the most sensitive data stored on the Flock camera, they were still able to access its Android operating system and found two storage partitions, labeled “vendor” and “media.” The latter was found to contain an encryption key that unlocked another partition containing all the media files from the camera. 404 Media said that that particular Flock camera captured about 1.6 million images across 21 days, detecting around 50,200 vehicles and, more concerningly, 11 people. There were also 27,321 video clips saved on the device — MP4 files with a 1024 x 768 resolution that lasted about a second or two.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hackers-find-encryption-key-stored-on-flock-camera-group-extracts-more-than-27-000-clips-1-6-million-images-captured-in-a-span-of-21-days-from-device

and Joe Broadmeadow (retired police capt of East Providence, sounds like an admin type, not someone that ever walked the streets or arrested anyone, and hiked the whole Appalachian Trail) wrote a good opinion piece on the issue of a national license plate reader system being set up, and in action, with no laws governing the use of it

https://thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/6093835-federal-plate-reader-rules