Flock CEO Apologizes For Calling Activists ‘Terrorists’
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🗓️ 22 July 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:58.7 | For the last two years, Will Freeman has been advocating against Flock safety, |
| 1:04.4 | an $8.3 billion surveillance company that tracks vehicles with a network of over 80,000 cameras. |
| 1:11.6 | His organization, D.Flock, crowdsourced a map that shows where the company's cameras are located |
| 1:17.2 | and helps local grassroots movements organize against Flock deployments. |
| 1:22.4 | In an interview with Forbes last year, Flock's CEO, Garrett Langley, described D.Flock as a, quote, |
| 1:30.2 | terroristic organization. But now, as Flock faces an increasingly vitriolic public backlash, |
| 1:37.7 | Langley says he regrets that label. He says, quote, my comments were a mistake, and I apologize. There are groups today that have |
| 1:46.4 | real valid criticisms of the business, and I think what's changed for us is, as we've listened to |
| 1:51.6 | them and heard them out, what we're trying to do is find this balance. We believe in a world |
| 1:56.1 | where we can have safety and privacy. The anti-flock movement has picked up steam recently, thanks to reports of ICE's access |
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