> Or are you just saying the person placing the cameras is decoupled from the person making the decision to aggregate them all. That's exactly what's happening

> Or are you just saying the person placing the cameras is decoupled from the person making the decision to aggregate them all. That's exactly what's happening. People are buying webcams which are cheap and have in their ToS something to the effect of "we get to sell everything the camera can see". Which, in turn, allows them to partner with Flock and sell video footage directly to them. Consider the fact that at one point, Amazon partnered with Flock to sell their ring camera footage to Flock. [1] It only got botched because of the creepy superbowl commercial selling the spying as "finding lost puppies". [1] https://apnews.com/article/amazon-flock-super-bowl-surveillance-privacy-32b7d32a06d369bffe3ffdcdd31962a1 https://apnews.com/article/amazon-flock-super-bowl-surveilla...