Gathering license plate info? "Intercepting" cell phone pings?

On it's own, meh, but combined with this...

>> All the information is streamed to Knightscope’s cloud software and then streamed back either to the customer’s control center, or in some cases to a mobile app held by a human security guard.

Am I the only one that feels like this is a bit of a datagrab by this Knightscope company? If there's an option for purchasers to have the data streamed directly to their servers then my concern is lessened, but I'm increasingly turned off by the relentless vacuuming up of data that is becoming so prevalent in new devices these days.