Re: Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine

On 05 Sep 2026, Flocked Up <[email protected]> posted some
news:[email protected]: 

> If you’ve been following the tech world over the last week or two,
> things just blew up around Flock Safety in a massive way. Their CEO,
> Garrett Langley, went on Fox News recently and argued that focusing
> too much on privacy "prioritizes the wrong thing" and that we all just
> need to accept a "compromise" between privacy and safety.
> 
> In case you aren't familiar, Flock is the company that installs those 
> automated license plate reader cameras all over neighborhoods and
> cities to help police track cars. As you can imagine, the internet did
> not take the idea that privacy doesn't matter as much as safety well
> at all. The clip went viral on X, and almost immediately, people
> started posting what they claimed was Langley's home address online.
> 
> X’s moderation team has been scrambling to take those posts down,
> but users just tweak the text or put the address inside altered images
> to dodge the automated filters. Now, to be clear, doxxing someone is 
> completely indefensible and dangerous because it puts real people in 
> physical danger. But the irony here is thick.
> 
> Langley built a massive business on tracking ordinary people
> everywhere they drive, yet critics pointed out that his own
> neighborhood is blurred out on street view platforms. Furthermore,
> their cameras log millions of vehicle movements daily, creating a
> massive web of data that police departments and even federal agencies
> like Customs and Border Protection can search. Langley gets a level of
> location privacy that his cameras deny to millions of drivers every
> single day. 

Not really.  Anyone who wanted to take him out could do so with little 
effort.

> Under pressure, Flock recently lowered its default data retention
> period from 30 days down to 7, but digital rights groups like the
> Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which recently criticized Meta
> for removing opt-in encrypted chats on Instagram, called that fix a
> joke because local police can easily override it and keep the data
> longer anyway. 

When Democrats are in charge of the police, that is the end result.

> https://www.foxnews.com/media/flock-safety-ceo-calls-national-compromis
> e- amid-camera-sabotage-public-revolt