Flock公司的首席执行官加勒特·兰利（Garrett Langley）表示，该公司尚未因任何客户滥用其产品而终止与他们的合同。
Flock CEO Garrett Langley said that his company has not ended any contracts with its customers over abuse of its products.
在旧金山举行的Disrupt 2026会议上，兰利接受了TechCrunch主编康妮·洛伊佐斯（Connie Loizos）的采访，回应了该公司所面临的相关批评。此前有大量报道指出，有多名警察因滥用Flock提供的车牌识别系统而被捕、解雇或被要求辞职——这些警察通常未经许可就利用该系统来跟踪他人。
Speaking to TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos at the Disrupt 2026 conference in San Francisco, Langley responded to criticisms facing the company about the misuse of its license plate reader cameras by police departments. It comes after streams of reporting identifying dozens of police officers who have been arrested, fired, or told to resign after being caught abusing access to Flock’s nationwide database of license plate detections, oftentimes to stalk people without permission.
兰利表示，如果发现有客户大规模滥用Flock的系统，公司会立即终止与该客户的合作关系。不过，他强调到目前为止，公司尚未真正“解雇”过任何客户（例如警察部门或执法机构）。虽然公司内部对此问题进行了讨论，但他认为不应剥夺那些在打击犯罪过程中确实需要使用Flock产品的机构的使用权。
Langley told Loizos that the company would end a relationship with a customer where there was clear widespread abuse of its systems. But, the CEO said, it has not to date “fired” a customer, as he put it, such as a police department or law enforcement agency. Langley said Flock had the debate internally, but argued that the company should not take away its product from a community that might need it in its efforts to fight crime.
兰利说：“如果客户故意违法，我们会立即终止与他们的合作关系。这其实很简单。”他还补充道：“目前大部分争议的焦点在于‘如果50名警察中只有2名被抓到怎么办？’虽然我们目前还没有解雇任何客户，但在某些严重违法的情况下，这种可能性仍然存在。”
“If a customer knowingly broke the law, we would fire them immediately. That’s very easy,” Langley said. “Most of the debate is nuanced into ‘what if two officers out of fifty were caught?’ Today, we haven’t fired any customers, but it’s not off the table in the case of some pretty drastic law-abiding issue,” added Langley.
Flock系统的滥用及其收集的数据，只是这家总部位于乔治亚州亚特兰大的公司所面临的一系列争议中的最新事件。该公司在美国各地部署了超过10万台车牌识别摄像头，这些摄像头使当地警察部门及联邦机构能够追踪过往车辆的车牌信息及相关人员的位置。由于允许执法机构在其管辖范围之外使用这些系统，一些警察部门实际上可以通过Flock的全国性数据库在全国范围内追踪车辆。
The abuse of Flock’s systems and the data it collects is the latest in an array of controversies embroiling the Atlanta, Georgia-based maker of license plate reader cameras. Flock has more than 100,000 cameras around the United States, which allow local police departments and federal agencies to track the whereabouts of vehicle license plates and people as they pass by. By allowing its law enforcement customers to track license plates outside of their jurisdictions, some police departments can track cars across the entire country through Flock’s national central database.
在Flock接受采访期间，Disrupt外发生抗议。Flock已成为监控辩论的焦点，促使城镇、城市和社区通过取消合同或让合同到期来拒绝该公司的摄像头，理由是担心隐私问题。
Protest outside Disrupt during Flock interview Flock has become a flashpoint in the surveillance debate, prompting towns, cities, and communities to reject the company’s cameras by canceling their contracts or allowing them to expire, citing privacy fears.
有多起报道称，Flock在客户意愿相悖的情况下重新激活摄像头，促使当地居民用垃圾袋贴住摄像头，有时甚至将其毁坏。
There have been multiple reports of Flock reactivating cameras against their customers’ wishes, prompting local residents to tape trash bags over the cameras and other times destroying them.
当朗利在Disrupt舞台上发言时，示威者聚集在场馆外抗议Flock的人工智能驱动的监控，他们身穿《使女的故事》中的红袍等服装，头戴Flock摄像头的纸板复制品，而《1984》电影的片段在他们身后的扬声器中播放。其他人举着写有“Flock off”或“Flock = ICE”的标语。Flock与美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）没有直接合同，但该机构据称过去曾通过与使用Flock摄像头的当地警察部门合作来获取Flock数据。
While Langley spoke on the Disrupt Stage, demonstrators gathered outside the venue to protest against Flock’s AI-powered surveillance, wearing costumes like the red robes from “Handmaid’s Tale” and cardboard replicas of Flock cameras on their heads, while clips from the “1984” movie played on a loudspeaker behind them. Others carried signs declaring “Flock off” or, “Flock = ICE.”Flock does not have a direct contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but the agency has reportedly accessed Flock data in the past by collaborating with local police departments that use Flock cameras.
当地进步活动组织“狼群”的组织者Ashley Ortiz告诉TechCrunch，她希望地方立法者更认真地对待选民对Flock的担忧。
Ashley Ortiz, an organizer with local progressive activist group The Wolves, told TechCrunch that she wants local lawmakers to take constituents’ concerns about Flock more seriously.
“我认为Flock将成为更多社区建设的开端，因为我们可以围绕一件两党都认同的事情聚在一起——那就是不享受大规模监控，”奥尔蒂斯说。“我们有共和党人加入我们，有保守派表示赞同，我们还有主权公民砸毁Flock摄像头，所以不仅仅是左翼人士不想要人工智能驱动的大规模监控。”
“I think Flock is going to be the start of a lot more community building, because we can come together around something as bipartisan as not enjoying mass surveillance,” said Ortiz. “We have Republicans who join us, conservatives who agree, we have sovereign citizens cutting down Flock cameras, so it’s not just the left who doesn’t want AI-powered mass surveillance.”
当被问及她对兰利有什么问题时，奥尔蒂斯说：“人工智能驱动的大规模监控应该让我们感到安全吗？”对此，兰利在舞台上辩称，其车牌追踪系统已经使警察部门能够破获更多案件，并且破案速度更快。他举例说，比如一辆后座坐着婴儿被盗的汽车，得益于Flock系统，很快就被找到了。
When asked what questions she has for Langley, Ortiz said, “What about AI-powered mass surveillance should be making us feel safe?”In answer to that, Langley argued, on stage, that its license plate tracking system has been allowing police departments to solve more crimes and to solve them faster. He offered anecdotes, such as a stolen car with a baby in the back seat being found quickly thanks, he said, to Flock systems.
不过，Flock也因网络安全问题和摄像头准确性问题而受到批评，这些问题导致了数十起警察拦截和错误逮捕，其中包括一名正在驾驶评测车辆的记者。
Still, Flock has also faced criticism for cybersecurity issues, and camera accuracy issues that have resulted in dozens of police stops and wrongful arrests, including a journalist who was driving a review vehicle.
一些社区已经用竞争对手的监控公司取代了他们的Flock合同，例如Axon——这家公司是泰瑟武器和警察执法记录仪的制造商。
Some communities have replaced their Flock contracts with rival surveillance companies, such as Axon, the maker of Taser weapons and police bodycams.
关于可能被Axon收购，兰利表示公司目前不考虑出售。“不，我们没有出售公司的意愿。”
On a potential sale to Axon, Langley said the company was not considering a sale. “No, we’ve no desire to sell the company.”