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by mlinhares 774 days ago
Yay, even licensed to the Brazilian National Police (that doesn't exist). Did they mean the Federal Police?
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It seems to be a mistake. From the original article which Wikipedia is citing:

> "[...]Others, such as the Washington D.C. Metro Police, the Singapore Police Force, and the Brazilian National Police have purchased the DAS software from Microsoft, our software developer, and have used it to secure high-profile governmental and cultural sites, the 2014 World Cup, and the 2016 Summer Olympics. Microsoft has agreed to give New York City 30 percent of the revenue it derives from selling the software to other jurisdictions (Parascandola and Moore 2012);"

But "Parascandola and Moore 2012" refers to another article that doesn't say anything about existing uses outside of NYC. (Using Archive because the site has a Geoblock).

https://web.archive.org/web/20210812131624/https://www.nydai...

EDIT: Just removed the paragraph from Wikipedia.