Taser’s latest police weapon: the tiny camera and the cloud
February 22, 2012
AXON flex (credit: TASER International)
TASER International has announced new kind of camera called AXON flex, to be worn by police officers.
The half-ounce unit is about the size of a cigar stub and clips on to a collar or sunglasses of an officer. It can record two hours of video during a shift. The information is transferred by a docking station to a local machine, and eventually stored in a cloud-computing system that uses Taser’s online evidence management system.
In Taser’s cloud evidence system, which resides on Amazon.com’s cloud storage service, the videos can be tagged and labeled for record-keeping. The software has editing capabilities to protect the identities of some people captured on the video, like victims of child sex crimes or undercover officers.
The new cameras sell for $1,000, including a battery that lasts 14 hours.
If body cameras do catch on, the images will almost certainly flood the Internet. Video from cameras mounted on dashboards of police cruisers is already a staple on YouTube.
[ New York Times ]
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Comments (9)
by DanR
Surveillance can be a two edged sword. For 1000.00 dollars you can video the Police. Won’t this promote ‘Better’ behavior for everyone?
by steve
It frightens me that idiots like you exist, who decides what this better behaviour is? You? the government? what is bad behaviour? it starts out as normal crime and all the Sheep like yourself are making statements such as promoting better behaviour or the classic ‘if you have nothing to hide…’ then what next protests? dissent? meeting in groups greater than ….
You are already a virtual police state time to wake up.
by tim sweeney
Idiots like who? sorry, but I just tuned in, so I dodn’t even know who th idiot is, yet.
by Ben W.
Mobile phone and Skype, anyone? Is this really “technology”, or is it just a cute specialty company owned by ex-police officers?
by Benjamin Wright
States have varied laws about recording voice conversations without consent. Some states like Pennsylvania require consent of all parties to a conversation before it can be recorded. As police and others start capturing audio/video of everything they encounter, may need to wear notices that warn people they are being recorded. http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/03/robots-as-keepers-of-legal-records.html
by Khannea Suntzu
There are two sides to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ttZEY5mp8So
by Haxagon
So, they’re allowed to record us, but those who are lawfully recording the police are continually punished with broken cameras and bones?
by Moneyman
just more reason to hate the police
by tim sweeney
listen, I LOVE the police, I just don’r ever want to get maced again.