YouTuber Says Cops Paid Him a Visit After He Built Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops

In news that will surprise no one, it turns out that police are only too happy to use automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras—the kind made infamous by Flock—to track ordinary citizens, but are considerably less enthusiastic about citizens using the same technology to track them.

While ALPR technology is not new, its use has exploded over the last few years, with Flock at the forefront of both widespread adoption and resultant controversies. There has been story after story about…