Garrett Langley, founder and CEO of license plate camera maker Flock Safety, defended his company’s surveillance technology onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco this week, even as Flock contends with canceled contracts and layoffs nationwide.
\n\nTechCrunch reports that speaking during a panel interview, Langley pushed back on critics who say Flock’s cameras amount to invasive surveillance. He argued that progress shouldn’t stop just because a technology is imperfect. “If we want to live in a society where, if you commit a crime, you have a higher probability of being held accountable, we shouldn’t pause progress,” he said.
\n\nTo make his case, Langley reached for an analogy: driverless cars. “Technology, at its core, in its definition, is just doing things better. It’s not doing things perfect,” he said. A single crash, he argued, shouldn’t be grounds for pulling the technology entirely. “Driverless cars, I think, is a fair analogy. Driverless cars, I think, are definitively safer than human drivers. And when there’s one accident, I don’t think the answer is to shut down driverless cars. The answer is to say, ‘Hey, let’s talk about how we prevent more accidents in the future.'”
\n\nLangley also addressed Flock’s relationship with the…
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