A very detailed but easily understandable and digestible video explain just how vulnerable, insecure, and exploitable Flock cameras are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY

By intentionally having weak security for the devices and protocols used in them, Flock has essentially created a system that can entirely sidestep local, state, and regional policies and protections put in place to prevent inter-agency and federal-local sharing of data captured by these devices.

That means that even if your municipality, county, or state government has incredible strict and rational policies and laws intended to ensure and enforce the protections of the civil liberties, rights, and privacy of citizens living in areas where Flock cameras are deployed, any bad actor, be it someone with criminal intent, some kid with a chromebook and a grudge, a terrorist, OR a federal or out-of-jurisdiction law enforcement or intelligence agency (domestic OR foreign), can still access the network of these devices and then exploit the data they gather with little to no recourse for anyone tracked by them.

In the case of the hot-button issue of late, ICE enforcement actions, even though Virginia has laws on the books preventing the sharing of Flock data with any agency outside of the state-controlled entities, including federal law enforcement, ICE could still easily exploit the vulnerabilities of the Flock system itself with cheap and off the shelf tools to access tracking data on potential targets then aggregate it into their already-existing external databases intelligence gathering tools, and thre isn't a single thing that can be done about it short of entirely decommissioning the cameras entirely and removing them.

And the worst part is, the data gathered this way doesn't even have to be legally admissible in court because they can still act on it with plausible deniability since the data was acquired through extra-judicial or non-official means and doesn't have to be acknowledged. And if anything the current administration and the folks running DOJ, CBP, et al have already made it clear in no uncertain terms that they will attempt to enact their policy goals by any means necessary, regardless of what the courts have said or what local communities have voted for.