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Flock CEO Garrett Langley on Public Backlash, Surveillance Expansion | Disrupt 2026

Flock Safety sits at the intersection of an increasingly intense debate around the spread of surviellance technology, AI, and who’s using all of that information and to what ends. Founder and CEO Garrett Langley spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to defend his stance that Flock is a net positive in the face of concerns about…

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Flock Safety sits at the intersection of an increasingly intense debate around the spread of surviellance technology, AI, and who’s using all of that information and to what ends. Founder and CEO Garrett Langley spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to defend his stance that Flock is a net positive in the face of concerns about its work monitoring communities, cities, and enabling data sharing across law enforcement agencies.

As a sign of that backlash, as Langley spoke on stage, a protest against Flock was taking place outside of Moscone West in San Francisco.

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  1. @omgstabkegenuiushighiq

    October 14, 2026 at 4:37 pm

    Companies absolutely have a responsibility to protect people from the abuse of their products by users. Period!!!

    A simple solution is to require that every time a user looks up any data, they must document the reason for the search. This must be mandatory, and everything must be recorded within Flock!!

    If Flock does not enforce protections against abuse, then it must be discarded ASAP and must never be allowed anywhere near any government agency. Period.

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  2. @omgstabkegenuiushighiq

    October 14, 2026 at 4:48 pm

    The amount of crimes being committed at the highest office of USA and you expect local police to behave is moronic and you must expect a politician to easily become a dictator with the help of mass surveillance like flock etc…

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  3. @orizaya

    October 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm

    No matter what his points are on crime, nobody elected him to office, and he’s not a police chief either. He admits himself that he’s not qualified to solve crime – yeah we know.

    He says “I can only speak on behalf of the thousands of police chiefs around the country”, the whole point is no he can’t. Isn’t he from the United States? He should know how it works here.

    If and when the government decides to implement this level of surveillance policing, it would go through the normal civic process, we don’t have over the police department to a Y Combinator company. Speaking of which, YC has also invested in background check companies – but in such cases they did not open up the background data of citizens to any customer who ran the check the way Flock is doing with their data. YC has experience in these kinds of companies, they should direct Garrett on the next appropriate steps: Layoff and shut down. Add to that 90%+ failure rate out of YC.

    Hey at least this one has a product, the first Psychopathy-as-a-Service with a REST API and everything!

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Startup Battlefield: Health Tech & Life Sciences Pitches | Disrupt 2026

Founders from around the world pitch expert judges and compete for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Each team gets six minutes to pitch and six minutes of Q&A with judges Dr. V. Agrawal (ODDBIRD VC), Andrew Brackin (Gradient), Nell Daly (Revenge Capital), James Joaquin (Obvious Ventures), and Miloni Madan Presler (IVP). This cohort’s competitors…

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Founders from around the world pitch expert judges and compete for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Each team gets six minutes to pitch and six minutes of Q&A with judges Dr. V. Agrawal (ODDBIRD VC), Andrew Brackin (Gradient), Nell Daly (Revenge Capital), James Joaquin (Obvious Ventures), and Miloni Madan Presler (IVP).

This cohort’s competitors include…

Mosqitter: Detecting and preventing mosquito-borne disease spread with real-time disease intelligence platforms that turn sensor networks into early warning systems for national health agencies.

Hiyd AI: Delivering proactive health insights by combining sleep, movement, and nutrition data through an ultra-slim, discreet wearable tracker and AI app.

TimeTeller GmbH: Measuring people’s biological clocks to determine optimal treatment timing through molecular diagnostics and AI, improving efficacy and reducing side effects.

NTangible: Helping coaches and front offices make smarter recruiting decisions by quantifying how athletes perform under pressure with a validated cognitive score.

Intero Biosystems: Accelerating drug development by producing miniature human organs that enable pharma companies to identify safer, more effective medications while reducing clinical trial costs.

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Satya Nadella’s ‘emergency brake’ and the race to secure AI agents | Disrupt 2026

TechCrunch’s Equity podcast team took over the Builders Stage Tuesday morning to tackle a growing challenge for the AI industry: What happens when AI agents go off-script, and who’s responsible for keeping them in check? Recent incidents, from Anthropic pulling internal evaluations off the live internet after agents misbehaved to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calling…

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TechCrunch’s Equity podcast team took over the Builders Stage Tuesday morning to tackle a growing challenge for the AI industry: What happens when AI agents go off-script, and who’s responsible for keeping them in check?

Recent incidents, from Anthropic pulling internal evaluations off the live internet after agents misbehaved to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calling for an “emergency brake” on AI models, have brought agent security into focus. The Equity team unpacked whether the problem calls for better engineering, new regulation, or both, and why startups are raising millions to secure AI agents.
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Can the Grid Keep Up? EVs, Manufacturing, and the Race to Modernize Power | Disrupt 2026

From electric vehicles to new factories to renewable projects, the grid is under new pressure and facing new opportunity. Leaders from Weave Grid, Rewiring America, and Veir discuss how to modernize the system and where the investment is going. #TechCrunchDisrupt2026 Subscribe for more on YouTube: Follow TechCrunch on Instagram: X: tcrn.ch/x TikTok: Threads: Facebook: Bluesky:…

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From electric vehicles to new factories to renewable projects, the grid is under new pressure and facing new opportunity. Leaders from Weave Grid, Rewiring America, and Veir discuss how to modernize the system and where the investment is going.

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