> I think there's plenty of concerns about abuse, will they actually stick to the limits on use/retention that are supposed to be in place, how this relatively new company will safeguard the data, whether any long term pattern tracking is included (i.e. they could easily be deleting every photo after 30 days like they claim, but the information from the photo is retained elsewhere)

Oh for sure, absolutely...that's my point. Handwaving "it's like the UK so it's bad" is inaccurate and pointless. Let's talk specifics about how the system in our state works, how it should work, and what risks there are.

> Plenty of people have plenty of reason to neither trust the police, nor the private company being given a tremendous amount of information.

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