Image: Jack Poulson
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- A retired Chief of Police joking about law enforcement robots going into women’s locker rooms. He added that some law enforcement robots become immobile when women’s bikinis get entangled in their drive tracks.
- A representative for Dataminr, a company that works with Twitter to source tweets en masse and uses other open source information, said the firm is getting into “drone stuff.” (A spokesperson denied this to Motherboard).
- Axon has agreements with various drone manufacturers to feed their data into Axon’s overarching data product, a company representative said in one conversation.
- The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a Southern Poverty Law Center designated hate group, had a booth in the event’s exhibitors hall.
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Over the course of the three day conference, attendees and National Sheriffs Association organizers noticed Poulson filming and confronted him about it.“We’ve also had sheriffs come up to us and complain about being recorded in seminars. So, if you have any recordings, I’d please ask you to delete them,” one National Sheriffs Association member asked Poulson.Later, when Poulson was using his laptop, a woman approached him.“Hi there, I’m Megan with NSA [National Sheriffs Association],” she said.Do you have information on surveillance companies? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.
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