Lowes and Home Depot have stepped up to partner with LEO in monitoring the public (people not suspected of a crime). The hardware chains have proactively funded and installed hundreds of Flock cameras.

The cameras exist to capture the faces and movements of the public w/o their consent. All of it flows into the databases that Flock maintains - primarily for LEO to access as it wishes.

Continuous monitoring of the public is about as much power as any authoritarian could ask for.

Freewalled: http://archive.today/L8fyS

Of course they share, this country is business in a trenchcoat. Where the government has been restricted from collection, they barter. Repeatedly.

Walmart pioneered this stuff, surely they had first-mover advantage. Loss prevention turned AI/surveillance.