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Taser stuns law enforcement world, offers free body cameras to all US police
- kwillets 10y agoThis is an obvious revenue ploy for their cloud storage service.
- I_am_neo 10y agoAbsolutely, but it's a brilliant revenue ploy, think back to Microsoft in the 80's
- kwillets 10y agoIt's going to get messy when people discover their public records have "retrieval fees".
- moh_maya 10y agoFrom the Ars technica comments: (ArcSyc) --> Fortunately, they put pricing right up on their website. https://prismic-io.s3.amazonaws.com/axo https://prismic-io.s3.amazonaws.com/axo ... +plans.pdf $15/user/month for basic access to their server and 10GB of storage per user. $39/user/month for pro and 30GB/user. $55/u/m for ultimate which includes a new camera every 2.5yrs and 40GB/u. $79/u/m for unlimited which includes all of the above plus unlimited storage and HD quality storage. Also, aren't these videos privileged information in the sense that access to them requires court / legal process to allow access? As long as there the PDs have ability to retrieve the data, can migrate out of the service when they choose to, and there are sufficient, declared tech standards that ensure tracebility & (digital) chain of custody for the recordings, I don't know that this is a bad idea (excluding privacy / data mining concerns, which again needs a legislative / policy solution). I think as a business solution, this is possibly a win-win for the company as well as the PDs - the devil is in how the contracts are drawn up, and how policies are established to prevent abuse. But that's going to be an issue with almost any such video recording service, unless the PD manages the IT infrastructure on its own --> which is expensive, inefficient, and has its own risks.
- hive_mind 10y agoMaster stroke. This is strategy.