Flock is shrinking its workforce just as the privacy backlash against it keeps growing.
The surveillance company confirmed it has cut staff, though it has not disclosed how many employees lost their jobs or which teams were affected. The move comes as scrutiny of Flock's data-collection practices intensifies. Asked whether CEO Garrett Langley would take a pay cut alongside the layoffs, the company declined to answer. That silence leaves open exactly how the cost of the cuts is being shared between executives and the rank and file.
Companies that sell surveillance technology depend on public trust to keep operating, since the institutions that buy their products need confidence the company is a responsible steward of the data it collects. Layoffs paired with an unanswered question about executive pay send the opposite signal: that leadership isn't sharing the pain it's asking staff to absorb. For a business already facing privacy criticism, that's a credibility problem compounding on itself.
Tech companies love to frame cuts as pure efficiency, not trouble. Refusing to answer a simple question about the boss's paycheck rarely helps sell that story.