• Noxy@pawb.social
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    8 days ago

    Axon is actually the Taser company that pulled a Facebook-style name rebrand because their earlier name was getting to be unpopular and associated with bad shit. They also do body cams.

    Axon is AT LEAST as evil as Flock, if not worse. I’ve seen job openings for building out surveillance software and infra, so they are not even remotely a better alternative.

    Not that any alternative to surveillance is acceptable other than dismantling it.

    • vorpuni@tarte.nuage-libre.fr
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      8 days ago

      The apps for alerting you for the BLE IDs of pervert glasses also serve as proximity alarm for dangerous gangs since basically every person wearing an Axon product emits Axon Bluetooth IDs.

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      8 days ago

      They don’t have a national database yet, I guess that’s the best we can get :(

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        8 days ago

        they could probably “plug in” to palantir pretty quickly tho. in fact I’d be surprised if that isn’t already happening en masse even if it’s not an “official partnership”