​In a country where divisions are pronounced and agreement is minimal, a growing number of Americans have found common ground on a particular issue: privacy. The technology many citizens have rebelled against is the automated license plate reader. The company at the center of the fight is mostly Flock Safety, whose cameras photograph passing vehicles and feed that data into a searchable national network used by thousands of law enforcement agencies. Opposition to this tech cuts across political lines and persuasions, mirroring similar opposition that has sprung up in various U.S. pockets against AI data centers. Chad Marlow, a senior policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) who leads the organization's national work on Flock-like technology, has watched that national coalition of opposition assemble. "I think that people all over the country are opposed to mass government surveillance, but for different reasons," Marlow told Military.com. Libertarians view it as the government intruding on private lives, Marlow said. Meanwhile, he said that supporters of the MAGA movement see the technology as "hitting directly on their concerns about the deep state." Traditional conservatives see counterintuitive measures that go against their small-government principles.