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posted by on Sunday April 09 2017, @12:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the why-not-combine-them? dept.

Taser, the company whose electronic stun guns have become a household name, is now offering a groundbreaking deal to all American law enforcement: free body cameras and a year's worth of access to the company's cloud storage service, Evidence.com.

In addition, on Wednesday, the company also announced that it would be changing its name to "Axon" to reflect the company's flagship body camera product.

Right now, Axon is the single largest vendor of body cameras in America. It vastly outsells smaller competitors, including VieVu and Digital Ally—the company has profited $90 million from 2012 through 2016.

Axon expects "80 percent to become customers," but only needs a 20-30% conversion to make a profit.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/taser-announces-free-body-cameras-cloud-storage-to-all-us-cops-for-a-year/


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  • (Score: 1) by lcklspckl on Sunday April 09 2017, @07:46PM

    by lcklspckl (830) on Sunday April 09 2017, @07:46PM (#491280)

    +1 Huh? It took me a bit to figure this out, but essentially I think you're saying that Taser is a tool of the government, and perhaps you furthermore find that discussion of their planned revenue streams is thus unneeded as they will be funded into the foreseeable future via government dollars because the Taser part, the product at least, is indeed a sharp end of a police "sword." If I find you correctly, well, I cannot disagree completely, AC.

    Tasing and filming aside, I personally just don't like the idea of lock-in contracts with public money.