FLOCK™ surveillance camera company has been getting called out about the use of their cameras for goobermint surveillance. They went and stucj their feet into their mouths

Well, “Safety” has never been a right and such is a fallacious appeal to emotion, not to also point out:
“Für eure Sicherheit” (“For your safety”) was a common authoritarian justification used by the NAZIs to mask coercion, surveillance, and repression behind the language of protection.

Flock’s appeal obscures several important realities:

• Mass data collection — license plates, vehicle movement, timestamps.
• Networked surveillance — neighborhoods link into police databases.
• False positives — misidentification can lead to wrongful stops.
• Normalization of constant monitoring — cameras become default infrastructure.
• Power asymmetry — those who control the system gain disproportionate visibility.

None of these are framed as risks; they’re framed as features.