Seattle Police Department Hosts Contest Looking for Hackers Who Can Doctor Officers' Dash Cam Videos [View all]
Source: Alternet
December 24, 2014 | One of the reforms being promoted to reduce police brutality is greater use of mandatory cameras by police units to ensure that excessive force isn't used. Dashboard and body cameras can also, purportedly, protect police officers from false accusations.
The Seattle Police Department has a dashboard camera system in place, but says it can't allow the public to view the footage out of privacy concerns. In order to share the recordings with the public, it has to blur faces and distort voices.
As a result, the SPD is hosting a contest looking for “a few good hackers” to step up and redact its videos so it can release the 314,636 hours of videos it's captured over the past five years.
Read more: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/seattle-police-department-hosts-contest-looking-hackers-who-can-doctor-officers
No evil intent, I'm sure. Nothing to see here, people. Now run along and watch the Kardashians!
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