Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, GETTR, Truth Social, X, Youtube, Instagram

In the latest round of media interviews, CEO of Flock Safety Garrett Langley has returned to the theme of ‘compromise’ between privacy and safety. The CEO appears to be unwilling to acknowledge that his company’s cameras have already been used by police to stalk their wives, girlfriends and exes – with 46 documented cases reported by The Washington Post.

By no means is this hypothetical, and Langley acknowledged the situation in a Fox News interview by calling for “compromise”.

Langley told CBS News that he had apologized to one of the Flock Safety victims of police abuse and then went on to say that Flock didn’t create the police abuse and that it just “shined a light on it” — and that he felt he and his company did nothing wrong.

It’s becoming a bipartisan issue. On the left, candidates and advocacy groups are sounding the alarm about Flock-enabled mass surveillance abuse. On the right, three House Republicans introduced legislation to ban the federal government from purchasing automated surveillance systems that incorporate facial recognition, biometric IDs, and license plate recognition — naming Flock cameras specifically.

Flock Safety has attempted to alleviate some concerns, decreasing the default data retention time from 30 days to 7 days. However, both changes can be circumvented using “Evidence Mode.” Whether these are real changes or simply another round of Flock PR depends entirely on how Evidence Mode operates in practice.

This is where things get particularly interesting — Flock CEO Garrett Langley essentially admits there is currently no criminal accountability for police officers who use his technology to spy on private citizens. Instead, he urges state legislatures to create crimes around the misuse of the Flock platform.

The four former employees of the Savannah police department who were utilizing Flock Safety cameras to conduct unauthorized surveillance have been arrested and charged.

How about we just don't allow mass surveillance without informed consent?

Can the rest of the country be saved from Garrett Langley? And from politicians who are allowing this abuse?

'NO AD' subscription for CDM! Sign up here and support real investigative journalism and help save the republic!