Artificial Intelligence Is Coming To Police Bodycams, Raising Privacy Concerns

A police officer equipped with Taser's Axon Flex body camera (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images) Business is booming in the bodycam industry. Police forces across the United States are equipping more of their officers with cameras to gather more information out in the field. But with all that footage comes a tsunami of data that's becoming increasingly difficult to sift through. Taser International, one of the largest manufacturers of police bodycams, wants to bring some of the latest artificial intelligence techniques to make sense of all that footage. On Thursday, the Scottsdale, Arizona-based company said it's making two acquisitions to up its game in the area.