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GeekWire Radio: How cops are moving to the cloud, and what it means for public safety
Marcus Womak of Evidence.com and Hadi Partovi, a Taser International board member, holding Evidence.com’s Axon body cameras used by police.…
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Police body camera maker Axon bans facial recognition tech over ‘serious concerns’ about bias
Inside Axon’s spaceship-themed Seattle office. (GeekWire Photo) Axon is banning facial recognition technology from the products it develops for law…
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Civil rights activists up in arms over Amazon update adding fear detection to facial recognition tech
AWS CEO Andy Jassy delivers the keynote at the 2018 reInvent confrerence. (Amazon Web Services Photo) Amazon’s latest update to…
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Amazon takes heat from senator over Ring’s ‘troubling’ relationship with police
Sen. Ed Markey. (Photo via Markey.Senate.Gov) News reports detailing the relationship between Amazon-owned Ring and police departments are raising eyebrows…
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Tech industry continues push to shape federal facial recognition laws
Dave Limp, Amazon’s hardware SVP, kicked off the company’s devices event on Wednesday in Seattle by talking about privacy. (GeekWire…
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Axon to add automatic license plate readers to police car systems
Inside Axon’s spaceship-themed Seattle office. (GeekWire Photo) Axon, the police tech company formerly known as Taser, will add automatic license…
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Amazon defends Ring’s relationship with police as U.S. senator resurfaces privacy concerns
Jamie Siminoff, CEO of Ring, at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Amazon is attempting to set…
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Amazon’s Ring to let customers opt out of receiving police video requests
Amazon’s Ring announced new products including its first LED smart bulbs, along with the ability for customers to opt out…
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Axon rolls out police body cameras with live-streaming capability
An Axon Body 3 camera on a police officer. (Axon Photo) Police officers equipped with Axon’s next-generation body camera will…
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Privacy advocates alarmed after Seattle-area police launch online tool to report illegal gatherings
Downtown Bellevue, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Police in Bellevue, Wash., are asking residents to report violations of the…
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