That makes them a data broker in my reading, and at least in California, Data Broker legislation should apply. CA Data Broker registry gives me access denied, but that could be because I am outside US.
This is what I mean by the fruitlessness of these kinds of legal discussions on HN. What do you want me to argue, that you're wrong to want the law to work that way?
https://www.courthousenews.com/california-drivers-accuse-flo...
You _can_ get shares registered in your name.
Does Flock do some kind of P2P dance to avoid the data transiting their systems?
Presumably the California data brokerage statutes were written specifically to prevent the kind of nerd-lawyering happening on this thread.
I'm not saying that's what's happening, but that's what I thought was happening before reading this thread, and now I have to go and run through their policies.
Either way ALPRs and AI-facial scanners in public are a huge violation of privacy and I loathe them, but I hope it's correct that Flock customers cannot easily share information with one another.
Ex-employee of Flock here, that's ABSOLUTELY what's happening.
And what's more Flock lets them do so even when they know the agencies are legally not permitted to do so. They turn a blind eye, say it's not their problem to enforce ("oh, doing so in state X is illegal? Well, even if your agency is in state X, we didn't disable that feature"), then happily provide training to do enable those agencies to do so (and it's a nudge nudge wink wink part of the sales process.)
https://www.courthousenews.com/california-drivers-accuse-flo...