Flock Surveillance Technology Faces Growing Privacy Backlash

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is defending the company’s surveillance technology amid growing criticism over privacy, police misuse, and the limits of corporate accountability. Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco on October 14, Langley argued that the potential public safety benefits of surveillance outweigh the risks, insisting that society should not abandon technological progress because of its shortcomings. “If we want to live in a society where, if you commit a crime, yo