Flock Safety CEO’s ‘Terrorists’ Remark Exposed a Surveillance Giant Unfit for Public Trust
Garrett Langley finally said it. The chief executive of Flock Safety admitted his past description of privacy activists as terrorists was wrong. He apologized. Yet the damage lingers. His words weren’t a slip. They captured a mindset that treated legitimate concerns about mass surveillance as threats to be crushed.
Langley made the original comments in a 2025 interview with Forbes. He labeled the DeFlock project a “terroristic organization.” He sent cease-and-desist letters. He emailed customers to warn that critics wanted to “defund the police, weaken public safety, and normalize lawlessness.” Those statements went far beyond rhetoric. They revealed a company viewing dissent as danger…