Cellebrite Dumps AI Into Its Cell Phone-Scraping Tool So Cops Can Hallucinate Evidence
I honestly don’t understand this compunction to break things that are already working fine. Axon makes body cameras (and Tasers!), but it simply wasn’t enough to equip cops with cameras…
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Simple market capitalist mindset. If you're not expanding, you're dying.
Equipping cops with cameras gets cops in prison, not the people cops are terrorizing, that’s the difference.
The headline seems a little misleading, since there's no reason to think AI summaries themselves are going to be what gets presented to a court. Sounds like the actual concern is violating someone's rights by going through all of their phone data beyond the scope of a warrant: