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gosub100 • today at 7:09 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

How does their business model work with subpoenas? If the police don't pay to use them, but the camera witnesses a crime, can't they get a judge to order the video because it's evidence in a criminal investigation and/or trial?

What about a civil case? Can an individual get a court order for flock to release evidence that it may have (or definitely has) relevant to a divorce case or other lawsuit?

They evade accusations of constitutional violation because they're a private company. But other private companies have to turn over records all the time (credit card purchases for example).


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Manuel_D • today at 7:37 PM

Paying a lawyer to petition a judge for a subpoena (which the judge may or may not grant) is probably much more expensive than whatever Flock charges.

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