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I'm not American and I see stuff about flock cameras everywhere. Can you ELI5 what are they about? Are they a speed camera registry that saves the video to a centralized database?
They are ALPRs (automatic license plate readers) which have a shared database around the country. Police from cities which have a contract with flock are able to search this database which is across the whole country.
They are not ALPRs at all. They can ID you with facial recognition, that's not a license plate.