There looming data questions on police body cameras

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One big thing? There's a looming data question on police body cameras.
After Ferguson, police departments needed to shift perception and gain back the public's trust.
Their solution: body cameras, which are now used in about 95
percent of large police departments. Next month dozens of DC police officers will
add body cameras. Body cameras. Where every Cincinnati police officer starts
wearing a body camera. This has created some issues. Number one: there's no
standard on how and when departments release footage. Number two: private
companies, like Axon, are the ones that actually store the footage for police
departments through cloud services. This begs the question: who owns all this data?
The public? The government? Or these private companies? The way that body-worn
camera vendors make money isn't on the physical cameras themselves. What they're
essentially selling are subscriptions to manage their footage in the cloud with
these vendors. For large departments, we're talking about tens of millions of
dollars a year. Vendors see police departments as the
main customers. When you tape it's better for police. It's hard being a
cop and what they find when they've got a camera? Is it protects them from all
the crazy allegations. The one thing that major vendors are trying to do now is to
build face recognition into body worn cameras, which I think would just turn the
idea of body-worn cameras completely on its head, from something that is
supposed to be for the public into something that primarily aids the
interests of police departments and its officers.
These days technology is underpinning the daily operations of pretty much
every industry and every job. Police officers collecting footage of their
town and people all around is not that different from a company like Facebook
or Google collecting data about you as you're roaming around the web. But unlike
these companies who are collecting data in exchange for a service that you're
getting online, this is a government agency. This is law enforcement, taking
this information and it's not up to consumers, it's not voluntary. This can be
seen more as a surveillance effort than a commercial activity.

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There looming data questions on police body cameras

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