US cop body cam maker says it won’t ship face-recog tech in its kit? Due to ethics? Did we slip into a parallel universe?

Axon, the largest supplier of body cameras to America’s cops, will not add facial-recognition technology to its gear anytime soon, it announced Thursday. Formerly known as Taser, Axon had asked its AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board – made up of engineers, social scientists, and lawyers – to mull over the impact of building face-scanning machine-learning systems into its products.

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