Comment by toss1

The judge is right, and should go even further.

This is data collected with public funds — our money — for public purposes.

Not only should it be available to any US resident by request, it should be public, as in in an online library, and any US resident without a criminal record should be able to get continuous access, not only a batch of records (yes, keep out anyone with a restraining order or any other crime).

It is our tax dollars, any of us should be able to do research on the data. Including watching the watchers. Where do the government employees go and when? Where do the Flock employees go, and when?

Or, if that kind of instantly-available stalking of anyone is too much of a risk, shut it down. Hard. All of it.

The real-world dynamics of the system is either 1) everybody's motions in public are public, or 2) it is a tool of a totalitarian state. There is no other option, and option 2 is intolerable in a free society.