Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping
Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police
In early September New Yorkers may have noticed an unwelcome guest hovering round their parties. In the lead-up to Labour Day weekend the New York Police Department (NYPD) said that it would use drones to look into complaints about festivities, including back-yard gatherings. Snooping police drones are an increasingly common sight in America. According to a recent survey by researchers at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, about a quarter of police forces now use them.
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This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Surveillance capitalism”
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