#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
wsj.com/articles/nypd-…
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…
A similar partnership with IBM used surveillance footage to train the company's video analytics system, which claimed it could spot people based on skin color. /4
For years, we've been suing NYPD to learn about their predictive policing systems. We learned they designed it to not store the algorithm's outputs for hotspots, making it difficult to evaluate effectiveness or disparate impact. /5 thedailybeast.com/red-flags-as-n…
The NYPD's body cam rollout did little to improve police accountability. But we recently learned that NYPD runs body camera footage through facial recognition to make ID's. /6 gothamgazette.com/city/8935-nypd…
We recently published a chart tracking all of NYPD's surveillance tools. Many of these tools are actively invading the civil rights and civil liberties of New Yorkers, but there is virtually zero public oversight or accountability. /7 brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
On December 18 at 1 PM, the @NYCCouncil will hold a hearing on the #POSTAct, which would require common sense disclosures that were absent during Ms. Tisch stint as NYPD's Deputy Commissioner of Information Tech. brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
Lastly, two resources:
- #ConfrontingBlackBoxes shadow report, outlining all the things going wrong with algorithmic accountability in NYC: ainowinstitute.org/ads-shadowrepo…
- Drop by the ADS community education event this Saturday: /end eventbrite.com/e/automating-b…
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