And Axon already has a long history of supplying cameras to police, so this is going to lead to an even worse enemy holding the mass surveillance reigns.
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notabot@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Flock has done its part in soaking up public anger at pervasive surveillance, and can now be left to fail. Companies like Axon will step in to the breach, be slightly less obviously awful, and receive much less public pushback.
This isn’t going away until the very governments that benefit from it pass laws against it. For there to be any chance of that happening there has to be even greater public pushback.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 2 weeks ago
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Most people aren’t aware, but Axon already does AI-assisted surveillance software too.
anachronist@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Axon literally has ties to Jeffery Epstein and Israel:
Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
I think people need to just keep the pressure up regardless of the company. They’re all the same