‘Robocop’ technology poses a threat to our liberties

SACRAMENTO – Nearly a decade ago, the spokesman for a company that produces Tasers and body cameras for police departments envisioned the day when “every cop is Robocop.” He was referring to then-nascent facial-recognition software, which lets police nab suspects based on an image grabbed from a camera, and a science-fiction movie about crime-fighting cyborg cops.
Technology advances at such rapid speeds that such a day already is here in authoritarian China. It’s also ga