If you don’t want robotic dogs patrolling the streets, consider CCOPS legislation Aron Solomon Contributor Aron Solomon is the head of digital strategy for NextLevel.com and is an adjunct professor of business management at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal.
Boston Dynamics’ robot “dogs,” or similar versions thereof, are already being employed by police departments in Hawaii, Massachusetts and New York. Partly through the veil of experimentation, few answers are being given by these police forces about the benefits and costs of using these powerful surveillance devices.
The American Civil Liberties Union, in a position paper on CCOPS (community control over police surveillance), proposes an act to promote transparency and protect civil rights and liberties with respect to surveillance technology. To date, 19 U.S. cities in have passed CCOPS laws, which means, in practical terms, that virtually all other communities don�