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Government overreach is certainly a concern, but more pressing on this side of the pond is that technology is moving much faster than any legislative or justice system could hope to keep up with. Right now, those license plate scanning machines are being used all over the US by repo companies. Those private databases have zero restrictions on who can keep what for how long, and decide to sell what to who for how much. The tech is cheap enough, and storage is cheap enough, that it's proliferating at an alarming rate.
I wouldn't be more fond of the police or related government going down that path that the UK is taking, but the one (small) bright spot in that case is you have one organization to sue, protest, challenge, etc. to get the behavior curtailed. With any number of private organizations setting themselves up as data brokers, it's an even harder challenge to try and address.
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