LETTER: Hardware Chain Sharing License Plates from Flock Cameras with Law Enforcement

To the Editor:

Dozens of Home Depot Stores in Texas are sharing parking lot surveillance camera license-plate scans — through the Flock network — with the Johnson County, Texas, Sheriff’s office. This is according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and 404 Media. 

Visitors to those stores are unaware that they are being tracked. 

I think, until I hear otherwise, that I will limit my hardware shopping to our local friends at Coolidge Hardware. 

William Beckett
Watertown Resident