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Bowser: Redacting police body camera video quickly is currently virtually impossible

Muriel Bowser · a16z Podcast | The Changing Relationship Between Tech and Government · Jan 2, 2019 · at 12:53

Muriel Bowser, Mayor of Washington D.C., discusses technical obstacles in deploying police body cameras while balancing public accountability and citizen privacy rights.

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“It's virtually impossible right now to quickly redact the information that these cameras pick up.”

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As of July 2015, quickly redacting video footage captured by police body cameras is virtually impossible with existing technology.

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