Axon Ethics Board Pulls Plug On Facial Recognition Tech Being Added To Its Body Cameras
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190627/20102842490/axon-ethics-board-pulls-plug-facial-recognition-tech-being-added-to-body-cameras.shtml
One of the major players in cop tech is bowing out of the facial recognition race. As Hayley Tsukayama reports for the EFF, Axon (formerly Taser) has decided there are far too many ethical and practical concerns to move forward with adding facial recognition tech to its popular bodycams.
Axon actually has an ethics board -- something that certainly would have been welcome back in its Taser sales days. Perhaps having a few ethical discussions would have prevented dead Americans from being awarded postmortem declarations of "excited delirium," thus keeping law enforcement officers from being held accountable for killing people when they were only supposed to be arresting them.