Police are bounded by evidentiary laws and warrant requirements, all of which legitimately do stand up in court. Flock is not.

So no, actually Flock itself is the problem. If Flock were willing to sign some consent decree that its data can only be accessed by police with a valid judicial warrant, for example, they probably could've headed off this entire mess.

But instead they called people "terroristic" for pushing back. Completely braindead move from the CEO.