Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
October 23, 2019 11:00 am

Axon, formerly Taser, plans to put automatic license plate readers on police dashboards


Moscow public transport infrastructure

Photo by Anton Novoderezhkin\TASS via Getty Images

Axon, the company formerly known as Taser, is entering another controversial surveillance business: the automatic license plate reader industry.



In a report released by its ethics board today, the company said it planned to enter the market and make the tech, called ALPR, available on a “future version” of dashboard cameras already used in police vehicles. Axon provides dashcams under a brand of products called Axon Fleet, and the company told the board that the next generation of its cameras will include the readers.


The cameras will be able to process video of license plates through a laptop in an officer’s car. While some police departments already use readers mounted to their cars, Axon...



Continue reading…




Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/23/20925180/axon-taser-automatic-license-plate-reader-ethics-surveillance

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

The Verge

The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011

More About this Source Visit The Verge