Cities are employing the same kind of technology to Orwellian levels of dystopia. It would be nice for the same level of scrutiny to be applied if I'm honest.
No oversight, no accountability, full speed ahead with tracking everyone, everywhere, all the time, just in case they might become a crime suspect.
Is that within the scope of the FTC? My naive assumption would be that it's not, and cities tend not to self-regulate on matters of any real importance.
"The same level of scrutiny" doesn't imply the same agency doing it.
Stronger federal and state privacy laws are probably needed to curb the current abuses.