Flock Safety CEO Discusses Surveillance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The short version: Flock Safety's CEO pitched 'the future of surveillance and privacy' to a tech-industry crowd at TechCrunch Disrupt — the same pitch that's blanketing American streets with ALPRs.
Our Take
Credit to Newsreel for getting Garrett Langley on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to talk about where he thinks surveillance and privacy are headed. When a company founder is invited to frame "the future of surveillance" for a room full of investors and tech reporters, it's worth remembering who's actually living with that future: residents whose driveways, churches, and clinics are now logged by networked license plate cameras they never voted for.
Flock's pitch has always been smooth — public safety, missing kids, stolen cars. What rarely gets stage time is the retention policies, the patchwork of local agencies sharing data with ICE and out-of-state police, or the fact that a private company now holds a rolling map of millions of Americans' movements. A TechCrunch panel is a marketing moment, not an accountability moment, and that distinction matters when the product in question is a nationwide surveillance network.
If you want to see how close this network has gotten to your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you'd rather not just watch the keynote, see what you can actually do about it on our take-action page.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Newsreel, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.