Funded by Kevin Durant and founded by 2 ex-Google software engineers, this drone startup is scoring millions in government surveillance contracts
covering Ohio’s use of the technology suggested it had facial detection capabilities and was able to dodge objects as it autonomously tracked a person. “As you can see, it'll keep following me. If I'm running on a bike path, and I think it'll try to go around me even here, too, if it sees my face,” said David Gallagher, chief of staff at the Ohio Unmanned Aerial Systems Center.
Skydio’s tech could now be put to use on protesters, given its government customer base. . As revealed byon Monday, the DEA has been given permission to carry out surveillance on protesters and could now apply such tech to spying on crowds gathering across U.S. cities. President Trump has already called in the Air Force and threatened deployment of the U.S. military to clamp down on the protests.
Not that Skydio is the only supplier of government drones that could be used for protester surveillance. Far from it. Millions has been spent on a mix of boutique and established providers in the last 12 months. Last week, the CBP was spotted flying a Predator drone over the protest site in Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed after a police officer kneeled on his neck. An official with the CBP alsothat the agency had been using drones to track down suspects who’d knocked down officers with an SUV in Buffalo.
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