Oh but they do [1][2]!

It's very suspicious that you're being so uncooperative. I'm starting a Flock competitor and we sell our products to law enforcement and private businesses [3]. You seem to be against giving me this data, which feels anti-American and against traditional American values which are clearly afoul of NSPM-7 [4]. This will earn you a label of "potential domestic terrorist" in our database [5]. This, in combination with your "ethnic"-sounding username is enough to gain the attention of our users [6][7], so I suggest you comply to make America safer.

Why don't we start with something simpler? How about just your license plate number, current location, and a photograph of your vehicle taken while you're driving it (ideally along routes which we know you take so that you're not flagged [8][9])? Flock collects this information (along with a history of where that plate was recognized), so surely this shouldn't be an issue?

[1] https://www.404media.co/license-plate-reader-company-flock-i...

[2] https://www.flocksafety.com/products/flock-nova

[3] https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/flock-launches-first-ever-b...

[4] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/coun...

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903556

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavanaugh_stop

[7] https://www.404media.co/emails-reveal-the-casual-surveillanc...

[8] https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveil...

[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46909480