Flock CEO's Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley faces doxxing after dismissing privacy concerns on Fox News, with users posting his home address on X. The backlash includes congressional action: Rep. Keith Self introduced the PRIVACY Act requiring warrants for ALPR data, and Sen. Josh Hawley launched an investigation. The EFF criticizes Flock's privacy updates as 'piecemeal, voluntary, and reversible,' noting a 7-day retention override loophole. The article examines the ethics of doxxing and the broader debate over surveillance.
The Fourth Amendment is not up for 'compromise.'
- m4ck_
Doxxing is bad of course but does "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" apply here? Or is that only for us working folk?
- mullingitover
I worry that Flock is going to take the fall, and some other bad actor with political connections (my money would be on Palantir) will just quietly pick up where they left off while everyone's patting themselves on the back for defeating Flock.
The stuff Flock is doing is going to be standard AI-driven surveillance in the future, and unless the actual practices are made into political third rails and made into criminal code violations, they will absolutely be legalized on some party line vote in the middle of the night.
Don't make it 'stop Flock,' make it 'criminalize AI-driven surveillance.' Denounce 'conspiracy to implement ai-driven surveillance' as an inherently immoral activity punishable by prison time.
- nazgulsenpai
Our local governments are enabling Flock. Get involved in your local politics. Find out who made the decisions to put these cameras in the neighborhoods and hold them accountable. Until that happens they will just find another vendor if Flock folds. Just like Flock will find a new CEO if theirs is forced to resignation.
- randycupertino
I noticed he requested to hide his house street view on google maps.
- consumer451
I have to say, I wish we lived in a society where tools like Flock were not problematic, due to abuse and other factors.
However, if we lived in such a society, we wouldn't want tools like Flock to begin with.
edit: to be clear, we are far too corrupt a society to have things like Flock. The point of my comment was this irony.