THE COMPANY FORMERLY KNOWN AS TASERS
ALREADY A GIGANTIC PLAYER IN THE POLICE BODY CAMERA BUSINESS,
AND THEY'VE GOT SOME POTENTIAL SCARY PLANS ABOUT HOW THEY
WOULD LIKE THAT TECHNOLOGY TO BE USED IN THE FUTURE AND I WANT
TO GIVE CREDIT TO AVA COFFMAN OF THE INTERCEPT FOR INITIALLY
PUBLISHING SOME OF THE DETAILS FROM A TECHNOLOGY REPORT
RELEASED A LITTLE BIT AGO BY TASER FROM WHICH WE'RE GETTING
SOME OF THIS INFORMATION BUT BEFORE WE JUMP TO THE
IMPLICATIONS GOING FORWARD, LET'S GO A LITTLE BIT BACK
EARLIER THIS YEAR WHERE IT WAS REVEALED THAT TASER WAS GOING
TO PROVIDE ANY POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT ONCE A FREE BODY CAMERAS,
ALONG WITH A YEAR OF FREE DATA STORAGE, TRAINING AND SUPPORT.
THAT IS OBVIOUSLY A MASSIVE INVESTMENT SO IT MAY SEEM A
LITTLE BIT ODD.
WHAT ARE THEY GETTING OUT OF THIS?
YOU WILL FIND THAT VERY SOON.
IT TURNS OUT THEY ACTUALLY SOAR TERABYTES OF THIS
VIDEO@EVIDENCE.COM AND PRIVATE SERVERS OPERATED BY MICROSOFT
WHICH POLICE AGENCIES MUST CONTINUOUSLY SUBSCRIBE FOR A
MONTHLY FEE.
IT IS HARDLY A PHILANTHROPIC THING TO GIVE THEM THE BODY
CAMERAS IF THEY ARE BEING PAID OFF MASSIVELY TO THE FOOTAGE
BUT THAT IS PROBABLY THE LEAST PROBLEMATIC PART OF THIS.
AND FEBRUARY, THE COMPANY ACQUIRED A COMPUTER VISION
SORT OF CALLED DEXTRO AND A COMPUTER VISION TEAM FROM
FOSSIL GROUPING THOUGHT TASER SAID THE COMPANIES WILL ALLOW
AGENCIES TO AUTOMATICALLY REJECT BASIS TO PROTECT PRIVACY,
STRESS AND GOOD INITIALLY, EXTRACT IMPORTANT INFORMATION,
AND DETECT EMOTIONS AND OBJECTS ALL WITHOUT HUMAN INTERVENTION.
ANALYTICS ALSO ALLOW DEPARTMENTS TO OBSERVE HISTORICAL PATTERNS
AND BEHAVIOR FOR OFFICER TRAINING.
THEY ARE COMPILING THIS MASSIVE DATABASE OF ALL THE FOOTAGE
COMING IN FROM POLICE BODY CAMERAS MAY NOW HAVE THE
TECHNOLOGY TO ANALYZE IT WITHOUT NEEDING A HUMAN PRESENT.
THEY CAN GET THEIR VERY FAST LOOKING FOR CERTAIN BITS OF
INFORMATION TO TRAIN OFFICERS BUT WHAT ABOUT IN THE FUTURE?
THE COMPANY HAS EXPLICITLY SAID THAT IT WILL NOT MAKE
PREDICTIONS ON BEHALF OF CUSTOMERS BASED ON THE
ANALYTICS OF THAT DATA.
BUT THAT IS NOT WITH THEIR TECHNOLOGY REPORT THAT CAME
OUT EARLIER THIS YEAR ACTUALLY SAID.
IT SAID WE MAY NOT QUITE BE AT THE TOM CRUISE MINORITY LEVEL
OF COGNITIVE PREDICTION, BUT PATTERNS OF INDIVIDUAL
BEHAVIOR WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY PERFORMATIVE IN
REVEALING THE PROBABILITY THAT AN INDIVIDUAL WILL ACT IN A
PARTICULAR FASHION AND AS OUR DATA SETS BECOMING EVER
BIGGER, THE ANALYTICAL ALGORITHMS WILL BECOME
EVERMORE SOPHISTICATED IN REVEALING ROBUST PATTERNS THAT
IT IS INEVITABLE THAT PROTECTIVE POLICING WILL EXPAND.
OF YOU THIS TO BE A BAD THING AND IS CONSISTENT WITH TASERS
TO PRINCIPLES: PROTECT LIFE IS; PROTECTORATE.
AND THEN THEY GO ON TALKING ABOUT INNOCENT CITIZENS BEING
PROTECTED BUT IF YOU ARE GATHERING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF
BODY CAMERAS A DAY, ANALYZING IT
WITH AI, TRYING TO PREDICT WHO WILL BE COMMITTING CRIMES IN THE
FUTURE AND THIS SORT OF TECHNOLOGY IS FLAWED.
THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO PREDICT NECESSARILY.
IS THIS GOING TO BE ANOTHER SOURCE FOR COPS TO BE
UNNECESSARILY AFRAID OF CERTAIN PEOPLE IS SOME COMPUTER
PROGRAM TELLS HIM THAT THIS SORT OF PERSON IS A LITTLE BIT MORE
LIKELY TO BE VIOLENT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
OF COURSE.
I WANT TO THROW A FEW OTHER POINTS IN THIS DIARY LIKE
THREE OR GOING TO THE DATASTORAGE QUESTION IS WHO'S
DATA QUEST I KEEP TELLING YOU THEY DON'T WORK FOR YOU.
THE POLICE WORK FOR TASER IN THIS INSTANCE BY ITS THEIR
DATA AND CHARTING TO DO WHAT?
SUPPORT TASERS GOALS.
THIS IS GOING FOR THIS IS FROM TASER WHICH IS THE TAYLOR A
SWIFT ELECTRIC RIFLE.
WILL POINT OUT WHAT ACTUALLY IS.
IT'S AN ELECTRONIC RIFLE WHICH IS KILLED OVER 500
PEOPLE AND WHEN YOU SAY HOW TO GET THIS WAY?
HOW DO WE FINALLY FIND OURSELVES THE COPS WANT IS TASERS OF WERE?
WHEN I WAS IN LOGISTIC AND IN THE BALTIMORE POLICE
DEPARTMENT THERE'S A COUPLE OF OTHER REPORTS HE CAN FIND OUT
THERE THAT TASER WAS GIVING STOCK OPTIONS TO POLICE OFFICERS
FOR CONVINCING THEIR POLICE DEPARTMENTS TO ADOPT THE TASER.
LITERALLY BUYING THEM OFF.
AND YOU'RE WORRIED THAT I COULD POTENTIALLY BE A
CONFLICT OF INTEREST ARE
YOU WOULD THINK THAT I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE IF THEY ARE WORKING
FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY AND MAYORS, THEY ARE NOT WORKING FOR YOU.
THIS IS WHAT I KEEP SCREAMING FROM THE RAFTERS AND I'M
WAITING FOR THE DAY WE CAN FINALLY MAKE THAT CHANGE THE
IT SOUNDS A LOT LIKE THE PHARMACEUTICAL SUITABLE
COMPANIES AND TELLING THEM TO PUSH INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS
DRUGS IN EXCHANGE FOR PASSIVE AREAS TYPE STAR
THERE'S A STROKE NOW THAT IF YOU ELIMINATE HUMAN DISCRETION
AND SORT OF AUTOMATE THESE PROCESSES BY WAY OF AN ALGORITHM
OR THESE BIG DATA PROCEDURES THAT PEOPLE ARE SO EXCITED
ABOUT, YOU KIND OF ELIMINATE THE
POTENTIAL THAT HUMAN BIAS CAN BECOME A FACTOR OR THAT DATA CAN
BE MISAPPROPRIATED TO UNDULY PENALIZE CERTAIN GROUPS BUT WHEN
THE DATA IS IN THE HANDS OF A
PRIVATE FIRM WHOSE MOTIVE IS PROFIT WITH POLICE DEPARTMENT TO
HAVE ALL VARIETY OF INCENTIVES THEY'RE WORKING UNDER DEPENDING
ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN THEIR JURISDICTION, THEN OF
COURSE IS GOING TO BECOME IMBUED WITH BIAS BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO
ARE RUNNING THAT SYSTEM THAT THEY ARE INCORPORATING THESE
BIG DATA PROTOCOLS INTO ARE WORKING WITHIN A SYSTEM IN
WHICH BIASES SORT OF INHERENT TO IT.
THIS IS FAR FROM A PANACEA.
IF ANYTHING, IT'S SORT OF RAISES THE IDEA THAT COULD ACTUALLY BE
USED FOR FURTHER SURVEILLANCE
PEOPLE RATHER THAN FREE THEM FROM THE CONSTRAINTS OF
VICIOUS LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.
LOOK, I LIKE BODY CAMERAS BEING A LITTLE BIT MORE
BROADLY USED ON COPS.
I WOULD LIKE THAT TO BE DEPLOYED IN TANDEM WITH MORE OF AN
ABILITY FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION.
TASERS HAVE KILLED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE BUT IN A LOT OF COPS
HANDS, I WOULD PREFER THEM TO HAVE A TASER THAN A GUN
BECAUSE THEY SEEM LIKE THEY'RE GOING TO SEE ONE OR THE OTHER.
FAIRPOINT.
I GUESS THERE'S SOME GOOD THAT COULD THEORETICALLY COME
OUT OF THIS BUT IN TERMS OF TRYING TO PREDICT WHO IS GOING
TO COMMIT CRIMES, I HAVE A LOT OF FAITH IN TECHNOLOGY BUT I
DON'T HAVE A LOT OF FAITH IN HUMANS NECESSARILY AND I DON'T
KNOW THAT I HAVE A LOT OF FAITH IN A COMPANY THAT WATCHED
MINORITY REPORT AND ROBOCOP AND THINGS THAT THOSE ARE GOOD
EXAMPLES OF HOW POLICING TO DEVELOP IN THE FUTURE.
THAT SCARY NOT JUST IN TERMS OF A POLICE ANALYSIS BUT MOVIE
ANALYSIS.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT MOVIE YOU WATCHED YOU DERIVED THAT LESSON
BECAUSE THIS IS POTENTIALLY SCARY.
THIS IS THE PLAN IN 2017 AND IN 10 OR 20
YEARS, THIS COULD BE WHAT WE LOOK BACK ON.
WE HAVE AN ORWELLIAN MODEL OF POLICING.
WHEN OUR ANSWER TO FORCES THAT THE STATE MUST HAVE MORE THAN US
BUT WE HAVE THE SECOND AMENDMENT
THAT SAYS WE MUST BE ABLE TO HAVE
EQUAL FORCE THEN YOU GET INTO THE POLICE, STARTED IN LA, THE
POLICE NEEDED MORE FORCE FROM THE BANK SHOOTOUTS THAT'S WHEN
THE REALIZATION CAME.
WE HAVE TO
KEEP UP WITH SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS, THEN WE GET TANKS,
WE GET BIGGER TANKS, THEY WE GET ARMOR, ETC.
IT'S GONNA KEEP GOING THAT WAY.
WE END UP WITH PRIVATE DOGS ATTACKING NATIVE AMERICANS ON
THEIR OWN TREATY LAND AND THIS WILL CONTINUE AND NOW IF YOU
WANT TO COMBINE CAMERAS ON EVERYTHING, IF THIS DOESN'T
SCARE YOU, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL POSSIBLY SCARE YOU, TO HAVE
THAT TOOL IN THE HANDS OF A FASCIST REGIME THAT WE HAVE.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE TASER BRAGS THAT IT HAS THE CAPACITY
TO DO IN THIS REPORT WHICH WAS DESCRIBED IN THE INTERCEPT.
THEY CLAIM THAT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO ANTICIPATE CRIMINAL
ACTIVITY AND PREDICT FUTURE EVENTS.
THEY CAN DO THIS IN PART BY JUST KNOWING AUTOMATICALLY IF
SOMEBODY HAS A CRIMINAL RECORD.
IF SOMEONE IS JUST
WALKING ON THE STREET AND AN OFFICER DEEMS THEM SUFFICIENTLY
SUSPICIOUS AND THEY CAN RUN SOME KIND OF ANALYTICAL CHECK ON
THEM, THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE TO INTERACT WITH THAT PERSON TO
GET A WHOLE PORTFOLIO OF THEIR PAST BEHAVIOR SO YOU KNOW, IF
THEY WERE CONVICTED OF DRIVING WITHOUT A LICENSE 15
YEARS AGO, THAT CAN HYPOTHETICALLY BE USED AS A
JUSTIFICATION EVEN IF IT IS NOT CONSCIOUS ON THE OFFICER'S
PART, BUT IT CAN FACTOR INTO WHETHER THE OFFICER CHOOSES TO
INITIATE AN INTERACTION WITH THAT PERSON AND AS I MENTIONED
EARLIER, THAT ALWAYS HAS THE POSSIBILITY OF ESCALATING INTO
SOMETHING THAT COULD EVEN BECOME FATAL.
IT'S REALLY DISTURBING.
IF SKYNET DECIDES THAT GUY COULD POTENTIALLY BE DANGEROUS,
YOU ARE TRYING TO PREDICT THE FUTURE BUT YOU ARE LEAVING OUT
WHAT AFFECT THE COP DEALING WITH A GUY WILL HAVE
ON THE EVENT.
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