Author: Julie Campbell

New cameras in police cars in the municipality in Pennsylvania could bring wearables to officers.

Police cars in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania are now being outfitted with cameras, leading some to believe that this may be the first major step toward the use of wearable technology by officers in the area.

Penn Hills Police Chief Howard Burton has submitted a request for the funds necessary for 20 vehicle cameras.

This would provide in-car camera technology for 20 vehicles used by his officers. The request was made for the funding to be worked into the municipal budget for 2016. According to Burton, the estimated cost for the 20 cameras is around $144,000. Though the cars driven by police officers have already been outfitted with cameras, that technology is rapidly becoming outdated and Burton feels that the police and the people in Penn Hills would be better served if the tech was replaced by new ones compatible with wearable technology.

That said, while they would be wearable technology compatible, there are no immediate intentions for wearables.

For example, Burton specifically pointed out that there aren’t any plans to outfit officers with wearables that would record audio or video. He explained that “I think this is the direction everyone is moving in.”

He also said that there are a range of issues that have yet to be ironed out by legislators when it comes to laws surrounding practices such as wiretapping and the length of time that wearable camera videos should be stored by police departments. Also being discussed are concerns regarding the affordability of storing recorded videos from wearables and the ways in which requests for those stored videos should be handled while the incident in question is still under investigation.

Pennsylvania laws do not contain any specific regulation against the use of cameras in wearable technology, but Harrisburg legislators are currently considering a bill that would create a wire tap law amendment that would then make it possible for police to record video while within homes, but would also be able to stop public access to whatever was recorded by that wearable equipment.

This update to the application is meant to completely overhaul the experience and simplify virtually everything.

Kroger Co. has announced that it will be introducing yet another slew of important changes to its mobile app, with the intention of greatly improving the experience of its shoppers through enhanced digital offerings.

The grocery chain, based in Cincinnati, has been placing an increasing focus on its mobile experience.

With the latest upgrade to the Kroger mobile app, it has also introduced a new feature that will remember the grocery list of the user, but that will also take that list and break it down into the locations in which the items can be found within the store. That will allow a user to be able to pick up each of the items he or she wants without missing one on the list and having to head back to the other end of the store. The idea is to allow for the smoothest possible shopping experience with the lowest risk of frustrations from missed items on a grocery list.

The mobile app is also designed to make it easy to build a grocery list using barcode scans of the products.

That way, as each product runs out at home, the user can scan the package to add it to the grocery list. Kroger has been adding several updates to its mobile application over the last while as it has been looking to smartphones to help it to provide its customers with the best possible experience.

That said, the smartphone app has also been designed to provide Kroger with improved analytics so that it can further streamline and enhance its systems, strategies, procedures, products and services and continually improve the experience its customers enjoy.

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On top of that, the app provides users with information about weekly sales as well as about offers that may be of specific interest to the user based on the previous purchases that he or she has made. So far, the mobile app has already received over 10 million downloads and it has offered users more than 2.5 billion coupons since it was first added to app stores back in 2010.