The coding wants to investigate companies such as AXON, whose scope expands in public dollars

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What is it, the world? I am olumheense, one of the latest appointments in The Markup. I will report the government here: federal, state and local methods that you find and examine and use new technologies. I am fascinated by the ways in which these products are filled and marketed to our leaders – and private companies that make wealth of public dollars.

These interests meet in my first story on The Markup: an exciting look at Axon’s continuous plans to develop Taser drones in response to mass shootings. The company, which manufactures both Taser devices and worn cameras in the body, boasts that its products are already used by more than 95 percent of local and local law enforcement agencies in the United States. Its CEO suggested that it include arms drones in school classroom, armed with surveillance cameras and microphones, for use in the active archers’ inability. (Yes, you read this right.)

When Akson issued this sudden announcement last year, three quarters of the Ethics Council – a committee of academics, lawyers, activists and former law enforcement officials – were designed in protest, saying they “lost the company’s confidence in being a responsible partner.” Axon CEO said that explosive immigration had stopped the drone development program.

But he did not kill her, people, as our latest offers. The nervous axis is still moving forward with the armed aircraft plan. In July, the company captured Sky-Hero, a company based in Belgium that manufactures drones and unmanned land vehicles. Sky-here has already developed the so-called “distraction” technology for some drones and the coding that produces the same levels of voice pressure as a semi-automatic rifle, as he said in describing a video on YouTube that displays the technology, and is like “real Flashbang, not deadly”.

You can also read in this article, I followed the former members of the Ethical Advisory Council to learn more about the effects of drones. (Spoiler alert: There is a lot, including clear risks of physical harm and possible abuse.) I also spent a lot of reading through a nervous axis data, investor reports, patent documents and even the book “The End of Killing”, written by the CEO of Axon Rick Smith.

In the end, I also asked Axon about when we can see drones equipped in the market. They are still no longer.

A little more than me, since I read this away: I am obsessed with creative ways to tell the investigative stories. Before you reach this coding, for example, the body footage of companies such as AXON was used to add dimension to reports of investigations into voting crimes. Using those images and sound, which were obtained through public records requests, they were able to clarify the extent of moving these investigations deeply and the cooled voters.

This report, part of a package called “The Callot Bogeymen”, recently won the Edward R Moro National.

Now, I look at the government and technology, and I love your help. What does journalists lose here? I am interested in how to put technology as a solution to cases not only in the police and our criminal legal system, but in schools, government workplaces and emergency management capabilities. I would also like to hear more about how to change technology in public transport, public housing, our environment and infrastructure.

There is an unlimited semi -limited latitude here: we all deal with the government in some way, and it appears that companies and their products have an increasing opinion on how we control. I recently had a conversation with Matthew Guariglia, the chief policy analyst at Frontier Electronic, on how this affects the police, and detonated me with the following: “The critical decisions about public safety are determined by marketing departments.” !!!!!!!!

I look forward to reporting technology in our collective interest. Please reach me if you have tips, ideas or threads that may be useful. (Or if you are a government employee and you want to say hello [email protected]On the signal or WhatsApp on (917) 407-0635, and you can send me some snail mail in Markup, Po Box 1103, New York. , NY 10159.

Thanks for reading,

Ese Olumheense

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