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🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Cops love technology. From robot dogs to drones to Ring cameras to tasers to facial recognition software, America’s police are often early adopters of the world’s newest dystopian tech. How does it happen? Often the tech companies are actively pitching police departments on stuff they say will make the cops’ life easier. Every month, conferences across the country are stuffed with tech companies and officers breaking bread and cutting deals.
What goes on at these conferences, exactly? This week on Cyber, Matthew sits down with Jack Poulson of Tech Inquiry to talk about a tech conference for cops he recently attended. It’s the subject of a new article on Motherboard—Please Delete Your Recordings: Inside a Police Conference.
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0:00.0 | Tadden, it's got the code it's going to launch. |
0:10.7 | It's a unit system. |
0:13.2 | I know this. |
0:15.1 | It's how all the files are the whole park. |
0:17.3 | It tells you everything. |
0:19.1 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:21.9 | The eagle one. |
0:22.6 | The package is being delivered. |
0:25.4 | Hello out there in cyberspace. |
0:27.6 | The cops. |
0:29.1 | They love technology. |
0:30.8 | From robot dogs to drones, to ring cameras, to tasers, to facial recognition software. |
0:35.4 | The police are often early adopters of the world's newest dystopian tech. |
0:41.0 | How does it happen? |
0:42.4 | Well, quite often the tech companies are actively pitching police departments on the stuff they say will make the cops' lives easier. |
0:50.1 | Every month, at conferences across the country, cops and tech companies are breaking bread and cutting deals. |
0:58.0 | But what goes on at these conferences exactly? Well, someone attended one recently, and they took a camera. |
1:06.2 | It's the subject of a new story on the site. please delete your recordings inside a police conference. |
1:11.5 | I'm Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber. |
1:14.4 | And right here up at the top, I do want to address one thing that happened to the last episode. |
1:18.7 | I left my Slack open, and some of you who are listening at home got minor heart attacks |
1:25.1 | when you heard notifications go off. |
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