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I wonder if millions of people take it to small claims court… would it work?

You have to show harm to have a case. If you were the victim of a wrongful stop, that's harm. But if your license plate was just recorded and nothing else, I'm skeptical that would give you standing in small claims court. Certainly there's other legal avenues against Flock though.

If your plate is recorded then later searched wouldn’t that be a violation of constitutional rights?

GDPR? Doesn't give standing in US small claims court, but if you applied it to every F* camera that sureyed your vehicle??

Maybe the California privacy law??

Most Data Privacy laws require actual harm and can only be enforced by the State AG. Some, like California have exemptions for security related failures that cause harm.

Then others, like Washington have strict laws around Health Data and have a private right of action. Still that would require a specific camera facing to possibly be considered for standing.

*Not a lawyer, just spends all day, every day, taking about privacy law with lawyers

I'm not sure random citizens have standing.

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