Taser Plans to Livestream Police Body Camera Footage to the Cloud by 2017

Could police officers someday identify criminals just by looking at them? That's the vision being touted by Taser International, which holds a monopoly on "conducted electrical weapons" for law enforcement and is aiming to build one for police body cameras, according to a Businessweek cover story. In the story, Lieutenant Dan Zehnder of the Las Vegas Police Department imagined himself patrolling the Las Vegas Strip with his Axon model Taser body camera streaming back to headquarters.
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