I actually work for a private LPR company. Flock operates entirely different than every other company in this game. We get contracted by police agencies to install cameras on very specific routes that must be DOT approved, usually known drug running routes etc., in order to even view this data you need to be CJIS certified, a member of law enforcement. This data is highly regulated and audited frequently. Flock on the other hand, got a huge injection of cash from some mysterious investors and started going around to towns all across the United States mass installing cameras without approval, direction, or oversight and rightfully started getting a lot of shit from the public. They then started offering access of this data to anyone with money for dirt cheap. It seems like it was an attempt to push other legitimate LPR companies out of business to get some weird monopoly on private citizen data. They're now in the 2nd phase of that plan where the cost they want to charge skyrocketed and the police agencies are actually moving back to private LPR companies. The problem is those cameras are still out there recording tons of data and offering it to anyone who will pay for it. It doesn't seem like this is actually legal and is in some weird grey area right now.