Living WITHOUT Flock is an invasion of privacy. Right now an Austin detective is watching security footage of you at Whole Foods. You didn't do anything, but someone was assaulted three blocks away, and the store's cameras are what's left after the city turned off its plate readers last year. With a plate reader, that's a one-minute database search (logged, auditable, tied to a case number). The other 50,000 cars from that day are never opened by a human and auto-delete (in 7 days, in Austin’s case). Without a plate reader, detectives have to rely on more invasive methods, like knocking on doors and asking who has a Ring camera. They come back with 20 hours of raw video from ten businesses, and someone has to watch all of it. Getting rid of Flock doesn't buy you privacy. The other cameras are still there and detectives still use them. What changes is how much they have to lean on them. Instead of a logged plate search that answers the question in a minute, investigators spend more hours watching people on other surveillance systems.