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Axon Hits Pause on ‘Dystopian’ Taser Drone Project Following Ethics Board’s Mass Resignations
Axon’s controversial and short-lived Taser Drone project is powering down…for now.
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America’s Biggest Police Body-Cam Manufacturer Bans Face Recognition Surveillance, For Now
Axon, America’s biggest police body camera manufacturer, is currently banning the use of face recognition technology in its products after its independent ethics board said Friday that the “technology is not yet reliable enough to justify its use on body-worn cameras” due to “unequal and unreliable performance across races, ethnicities, genders and other identity groups.”
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Taser Founder Thinks The Answer To US School Shootings Is ‘Innovation’
Rick Smith, the founder and CEO of Axon (formerly Taser), offered a bold new strategy for preventing school shootings on Thursday: approach the problem like a hackathon. In a letter to the President and an appearance on CNBC, he called for a national “Grand Challenge on School Safety,” a DARPA-funded contest where tech companies would…
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Taser Debuts Orwellian New Name, Offers Free Body Cams For Every Cop In America
On Wednesday, stun gun maker Taser announced that it’s offering free body cameras to every police department in the United States. That’s 700,000 cops across 18,000 departments. Rebranding itself as “Axon” (as in the nerve fibres that connect neurons throughout the human body), the company said in a press release that it’s “going ‘all-in’ to…