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🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Drones are here to stay. The U.S. Military may have pioneered the art of using drones in a war zone, but America’s cops are pushing the tech on the homefront. From the Boston Dynamics dogs taking temperatures in Hawaii to quadcopters patrolling the skies, the cops are very interested in drone tech.
One of the big companies in the field is Skydio. It advertises itself directly to police officers and has cultivated relationships with departments across the country. This week on Cyber, host Matthew Gault and Motherboard Editor-in-Chief Jason Koebler discuss the close relationship between Skydio and America’s police.
Stories discussed in this episode:
When Police Do Marketing for Surveillance Tech Companies
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0:00.0 | Tammie's got the code it's going to launch. |
0:10.0 | It's a unit system. |
0:12.0 | I know this. |
0:14.0 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
0:16.0 | It tells you everything. |
0:18.0 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:20.0 | Eagle One. The package is being delivered. He tells you're everything. Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:22.8 | Eagle One, the package is being delivered. |
0:25.8 | Hello out there. |
0:29.0 | On the internet, I'm Matthew Galt, and this is cyber. |
0:30.0 | Drones. |
0:32.0 | They're here, and they're not going anywhere. |
0:35.9 | The U.S. military may have pioneered the art of using drones in a war zone, |
0:38.1 | but America's cops are pushing the tech on the home front, from the Boston Dynamics dog taking temperatures in Hawaii to quadcopters |
0:43.2 | patrolling the skies. The cops are very interested in drone tech. One of the big companies in the field |
0:49.7 | is Skydeo. It advertises itself directly to police officers and has cultivated relationships |
0:55.0 | with departments across the country. That cozy relationship is the subject of a new article |
1:00.6 | on motherboard when police do marketing surveillance tech. Yeah. That's close enough. That's close. That's |
1:08.8 | close, but I'm going to do a reread. That cozy relationship is the subject of a new article on motherboard when police do marketing for surveillance tech companies. I co-authored the article with Motherboard Editor-in-Chief, Jason Kebler. He's here with me today to talk Skydeo. And what happens when cops get in bed with the people selling them drone tech? |
1:31.0 | Jason, thank you so much for coming on to cyber once again. |
1:34.4 | What a debacle. What an utter debacle. |
1:37.5 | Listen. Thank you for having me. |
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