In New York, facial recognition technology has been used to target people of color in protests, threatening their right to freedom of expression and peaceful protest.
So we sued the NYPD, and won 🧵
So we sued the NYPD, and won 🧵
Last year, when we asked the NYPD to publish their data on facial recognition, they refused. So we mapped their surveillance cameras.
More than 7,000 digital volunteers joined our global #BanTheScan campaign and searched every intersection in NYC for the CCTV cameras powering the NYPD’s facial recognition system. They identified 25,500 public and private cameras.
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Analysis of the data shows that New Yorkers living in areas at greater risk of racist stop-and-frisk policing are likely to be more exposed to invasive facial recognition technology.
In the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, the research also showed that the higher the proportion of non-white residents, the higher the concentration of facial recognition compatible CCTV cameras.
When New Yorkers marched for racial justice during the Black Lives Matter protests of mid-2020, they risked high levels of exposure to facial recognition.
Facial recognition for identification is mass surveillance and is incompatible with the rights to privacy, equality, and freedom of assembly. This week, the New York Supreme Court has ordered the NYPD to hand over documents detailing their surveillance.
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New Yorkers demanding racial justice have a right to know the full details of NYPD’s use of facial recognition technology during the BLM protests.
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