Leading technology manufacturer for U.s.a. police force enforcement Axon Enterprise Inc. is exploring new data tracking technologies, including blockchain, for its body cameras.

Verifying police force footage

The impetus behind Axon'due south interest in emerging technologies is public and government concerns almost "deepfake" videos, Reuters reported on Oct. 3. Deepfake videos are produced using a detail type of bogus intelligence (AI) making them wait and sound like the existent thing.

This technology causes a neat apprehension that bad actors can easily dispense videos to ignominy an private. This is obviously of major business for police wearing trunk cameras. Axon is looking into using blockchain to verify the actuality of law body-cam footage.

In its new generation of cameras, Axon includes a secure digital signature to help rail provenance of videos. "Axon recognizes the threat posed by 'deepfakes' to cause general mistrust in the integrity of any video, including body-worn photographic camera videos," Axon'south spokesperson told Reuters.

Blockchain and AI lead the way

Blockchain and AI are at present widely used by enterprises to amend their internal processes and products. In a defended assay for Cointelegraph, Julia Magas wrote that by being able to continuously analyze data nether a strict protocol required for achieving desired results, AI leads the way past assuasive data to be properly stratified and shared.

Blockchain lends its characteristics to make sure the data is handled in an surround that is condom from external interference, as well as tampering of data buying and sequence.

On the government level, The European union is increasing the corporeality of data that can exist reused as raw material for AI and blockchain projects. Alexandru Petrescu, Romania's minister for communications, said:

"These rules are a real enabler for artificial intelligence and volition help Europe to get a world leader in this crucial expanse. They will bolster the EU digital industry, especially smaller companies and startups, which would not otherwise have admission to all the information they need to introduce and expand."