The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras | Hacker News

A discussion around Flock license-plate and surveillance cameras says federal rules may block agencies from buying or running automated surveillance systems directly.

But the same rules may still allow agencies to buy the resulting data through brokers instead of the cameras themselves.

That leaves room for state and local law enforcement to keep using networked surveillance infrastructure despite the restriction.

The backlash highlights a bigger privacy issue: limiting hardware alone may not stop the flow of location and plate data.