Axon's police bodycams are used across the world and may soon come with facial recognition after a trial in Edmonton, Canada.
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S. and may soon come equipped with facial recognition, if trials go well in Canada. rolling out facial recognition into its body cameras . For now, it’s limited to the Edmonton Police Department in Canada, but it could be the start of something bigger: the beginning of pervasive facial recognition, where people’s faces are scanned whenever they’re anywhere near a police officer. Axon’s CEO Rick Smith said that it was pressing ahead with the surveillance technology because it believes the general public is accepting and even supportive of it, while cops are keen to use it. “The technology has become significantly more accurate, oversight frameworks are clearer and law enforcement continues to express a need for tools that help solve crimes efficiently and safely,” Smith said in a “This is not a launch. It’s early-stage field research focused on understanding real-world performance, operational considerations and the safeguards needed for responsible use.” Back in 2019, Axon had publicly stated that it was not ready to deploy facial recognition at scale because the tech was often biased and inaccurate, particularly when analyzing non-white faces, making suspects of innocents from ethnic minorities. Though the company claims it’s improved the technology’s reliability over the last six years, privacy advocates are urging police to avoid facial recognition altogether. “In a world where police are using real-time face recognition, law-abiding individuals or those participating in legal, protected activity that police may find objectionable — like protest — could be quickly identified,” Beryl Lipton, senior investigative researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote in a She pointed to the potential for Axon to erode privacy by combining facial recognition with its other technologies. Its Fusus system, for instance, collates surveillance video into one app and uses AI to flag anything of concern. Brought together, they “can easily connect a person minding their own business, who happens to come within view of a police officer, with a whole slew of other personal information.”all face matches will be double-checked for accuracy. It submitted a Privacy Impact Assessment to Alberta’s privacy watchdog. Next year, it will assess whether to go ahead with further rollouts beyond the 50 officers who began using the devices last week. Once Axon is happy with the tests in Canada, it’ll be turning to the U.S. “By testing in real-world conditions outside the U.S., we can gather independent insights, strengthen oversight frameworks, and apply those learnings to future evaluations, including within the United States,” Smith said.Brinc Drones CEO Blake Resnick showing off his 911 response drones at Hawthorne Police Department. , with drones for first responders and SWAT teams. Founded by 25-year-old Blake Resnick, and backed by Sam Altman and Peter Thiel, it’s gaining some traction among police departments across the U.S. But with DJI dominating the market, and U.S. rival Skydio a bigger and better-funded American competitor, it has a significant job on its hands. Read my latest print magazine feature with Zoya HasanChinese malware known as Brickstorm . A sophisticated backdoor, it’s helped hackers remain undetected on victim networks in the U.S. for 393 days on average, per a. “What began as an investigation into a single fraudulent cryptocurrency platform gradually unfolded into a complex, far-reaching operation, revealing a vast network of deceit and money laundering,” the police body said.This year, home goods company Kohler launched a camera designed to be affixed to toilet bowls to take. Though it promised the data was end-to-end encrypted, turns out that’s not the case, according to research first reported by
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