Comment by ranger_danger

I'm not sure how it is in Canada, but my understanding in the US is that data gathered by a public (government) entity (the police) is just that... public. And we've seen that play out in some cities where people asked for a copy of their town's Flock data, and everyone got all surprised pikachu on them because it turns out that's legal, and suddenly the government doesn't want to collect that data anymore.