Since it was founded in 2017, AI startup Flock has quietly built a staggering network of more than 80,000 cameras directed at highways, thoroughfares and parking lots across the U.S. With 5,000 law enforcement customers across 49 states, the company is inching closer to CEO Garrett Langley’s ultimate goal: eliminating all crime across America.
Sure, it’s a bit of a lofty aspiration. But Langley is convinced that America can and should be a place where everyone feels safe—and once the country is draped in a vast net of Flock surveillance tech, it will be.
His dream is a nightmare for privacy advocates, who say that the company is building an unprecedented mass-surveillance dystopia.
But that’s not slowing the company down: “The consequence of building a product that actually changes people’s lives is that there will be a lot of people we piss off along the way,” Langley says.
Read more about Flock’s explosive growth—and how its cameras already help solve roughly 1 million crimes per year—in Thomas Brewster’s feature for Forbes here, and keep scrolling below for more great stories from our newsroom. |
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