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In a word "Abuse". There have already been a number of abuses of the system and this will only get worse in the future. If you think that we have a great police force here in Rangely, I agree with you. But the same can not be said for some other jurisdictions. In both Kansas and Texas officers were caught tracking, or rather stalking the movements of a former wife or girlfriend. In Aurora, Colorado sloppy police work resulted in a family being terrorised at gun point when Flock alerted police about a wanted vehicle that in fact was not wanted at all. The license plate number on their car was the same as that of a stolen motorcycle in Montana. That mistake cost the taxpayers of Aurora a cool 1.9 million dollars. These are just a few examples of how things can go wrong with this unchecked system. If we learn anything from history we know a surveilled society soon becomes an oppressed society. Those educated in the '50s and '60s will remember learning about the Stasi and of oppression in East Germany.
Remember, anytime your car passes one of these cameras a record is entered into the database. Anyone with access to the database and knowing your license plate number can search the database to see every location where a camera has detected your car. By using the time and date stamp they can electronically trace your path. For example, you leave Rangely headed for Denver. You pass the camera at Shale Drive. According to Chief Hamblin the Flock does not pick up vehicles leaving town. More on that later. You will be picked up by numerous cameras at Glenwood Springs. Assuming that the vehicle you are in is not on a hot list, all that has been happening is that records are being added to the database. You will pass many more cameras before reaching Denver. In Denver there are cameras everywhere, each one making a note of you as you go by. Take a look at the known ALPR camera locations. The map is populated by the general public who have been awakened to the danger. There is a short video that explains how this all works.
Using the above example of the trip to Denver, assume that you take the trip each week on a Wednesday and return on Friday. Someone analysing the data could easily determine that from Wednesday to Friday you are not at home. That someone might not even be authorised to be looking at that data. Hackers don't ask for permission. What other information do they know about you? Criminal hackers spend months getting information on a target using many methods until they are confident they have enough. How they might know your license plate number and your address might be as easy as looking at a social media post showing the picture of your "Cool new ride" parked in front of your house with the address visible. Did you remove the geo-location from the photo before you published it?
Then there is the issue of profiling. What if in the future the law of the land turns to gun confiscation? The searchable database also contains text that is readable on your car. A search for NRA would pull up the data for all vehicles with with the pro-gun bumper sticker. If this was a search by some future law enforcement group, there would be no problem getting the rest of the information that they had all ready collected on you. The scenarios are endless.
Keep in mind that the cameras are the eyes of the system. Flock patents indicate that the database is fed by cellphone video, automobile navigation devices and web based audio and video to name just a few.
What the Camera sees....
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