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Police Use of Robotic Technology Raises Civil Liberty Concerns
Loaded on July 15, 2020
by Douglas Ankney
published in Criminal Legal News
August, 2020, page 49
Filed under:
junk science,
Police State-Surveillance,
Electronic Surveillance.
Location:
Massachusetts.
by Douglas Ankney
While Sleepy Hollow had the Headless Horseman, the Massachusetts State Police (“MSP”) had the headless dog. Spot — a one-time member of MSP’s bomb squad — is a semi-autonomous robotic dog that MSP leased for three months from Boston Dynamics.
Fearing the potential abuse of robotics technology ...
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