Article 4: Motorola, Known For Cellphones, is Fast Becoming a Major Player in Government Surveillance

Now having invested over $1.7 billion dollars in acquisitions since 2017, tech giant Motorola Solutions has acquired a large chunk of the surveillance market, who the primary buyer is the government, under a single roof. Among the technologies they have acquired and been developing include police body cameras, smart train cameras that can identify faces and distinguish suspicious behavior, and smart camera networks that can track car movements by their license plates. What many civil liberties groups find frightful about this information is that Motorola may be selling most of their developed and acquired surveillance technology as a single product or as packages, arguing that your privacy is safer when “information about you is scattered among agencies and entities”. I looked personally to see if Motorola Solutions had issued a response or a statement regarding their recent acquisitions of surveillance tech companies, however I could not seem to find anything regarding the matter.

Source: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/10/02/2134249/motorola-known-for-cellphones-is-fast-becoming-a-major-player-in-government-surveillance