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Exclusive: Inside Apple’s Secretive Conference For Cops

At Apple’s secretive Global Police Summit, cops from 7 countries learned how to use Apple products like the iPhone, Vision Pro and CarPlay for surveillance and policing.

But since then, it has ramped up collaboration with police through the conference and other meetings with agencies at both Cupertino HQ and its Elk Grove campus, as well as a variety of previously unreported projects helping cops use iPhones, Macs, Apple Vision Pro and CarPlay, the emails show. John McMahon, LAPD deputy chief and CIO That Apple has kept its work with cops largely under wraps indicates the company is aware that providing tech for police surveillance operations is inherently at odds with its pro-privacy marketing, said Electronic Frontier Foundation senior policy analyst Matthew Guariglia. As Forbes previously reported, Orange County Sheriff’s Department has tested out Apple’s Vision Pro VR headset to create a virtual version of its surveillance data hub, which the agency calls its Real Time Operations Center.

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