Comment by 1shooner

I don't recall the details, but I think he was explaining that the city paid more to avoid Flock reusing the data. Of course governments use third party vendors to store and handle their data all the time, that doesn't necessarily grant license or ownership of the data to those vendors.

My main counterpoint in that conversation was that the public was simply not well-informed enough about these kinds of data ownership and usage agreements to give consent to this scale of surveillance, and from what we're seeing Flock pivoting to, I feel my concerns were well-grounded.