“For example, if a shooter comes to church and a drone is deployed to defeat the shooter, we can’t simply support its success,” Smith said. “We need to scrutinize and scrutinize the video.”
A resigned board member said in a statement that the institutional review board had warned the company for years about the use of products that could monitor people in real time.
“This kind of surveillance definitely harms the color community and others who are over-supervised, and probably goes far beyond that,” they said. “The taser-equipped drone also has no real chance to solve the mass shootings that Axon is currently prescribing. It just diverts society from the actual solution to the tragic problem.”
Barry Friedman, director of police projects at NYU School of Law, one of the resigned directors, said in an interview that Axon was pleased to cancel plans for a drone project and the company wants to do so. Stated. Abandon it altogether.
“I think it’s very important to find a way to limit the adoption of technology. This is a harm to privacy, a harm to racial justice, or the amount of data the government holds for all of us. Frequently with little concern about what the government has access to, “he said.
Giles Herdale, one of the board members who decided not to resign, said he hopes to stay on the board “to try to mitigate all the harm caused by these developments.”
Hardale, Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank specializing in security issues in London, said:
