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#NYPD’s surveillance arsenal is an accountability black hole, with a growing list of scandals ranging from running celebrity headshots through facial recognition to secretly collecting DNA samples from kids.

But you'd never know it from reading this: /1
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Is this who we want running @NYCDoITT? The article praises everything from the Domain Awareness System to predictive policing to body cameras without spending a word acknowledging the problems associated with these tools or NYPD's commitment to secrecy.

So here are a few. /2
The Domain Awareness System - a massive network of surveillance cameras, license plate readers, sensors, databases, and more - grew out of a partnership with Microsoft. Whenever they sell DAS to another city, NYC gets a 30% cut. /3 fastcompany.com/3000272/nypd-m…
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And now, back to our regularly scheduled Bad News in AI Policy tweets...

Today @AINowInstitute, along with our @STOPSpyingNY team & dozens of organizations/individuals, joined forces to say to NYC government: You could have done so much better by us. /1

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All year, we've been watching the ADS Task Force work to audit and improve the systems that make decisions governing NYers daily lives. We saw the stonewalling, the resistance, the banging of the proverbial table, and in the end, a report with little substance of use. /2
Now, thanks to the tireless work of Rashida and SO MANY others who refused to let this opportunity pass without comment... if you want to know how to actually do right by your constituents and have real AI transparency? Read #ConfrontingBlackBoxes 👇🏻 /3
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