A new lawsuit is challenging the use of some police body cameras in an effort to ban one of the country’s most popular police body cameras from all political events related to the 2024 presidential election cycle due to alleged vulnerabilities to Chinese espionage.

A federal judge agreed to expedite the case ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and, if successful, would ban the use of those police body cameras in and near the convention. GovernmentGPT, a competing law enforcement tech startup, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.

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