Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley says the United States needs a “compromise” between privacy and public safety.
It’s a neat phrase, except I don’t like to see “compromise” and “privacy” that close together.
“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise.”
Langley call for compromise comes as the company faces intensifying resistance to its automated license plate reader (ALPR) network. The opposition has begun to affect Flock commercially and operationally, with agencies disabling cameras or canceling contracts.
The problem is that the public has already been doing the compromising: People’s movements have been routinely captured, stored, searched, and, in some cases, shared far beyond the communities that installed the cameras.
