Inside the NYPD’s Surveillance Machine allows users to plot a walking route through New York City and discover how much of it might be exposed to surveillance.
The Democratic mayor’s bullishness and the resources at his fingertips stand to put New York at the forefront of an evolving national debate over safety, privacy and the racial and gender biases tied to the controversial software.
Ban dangerous facial recognition technology that amplifies racist policing
January 25, 2021
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Amnesty International today launches a global campaign to ban the use of facial recognition systems, a form of mass surveillance that amplifies racist policing and threatens the right to protest.
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Ban the Scan campaign kicks off with New York City and will then expand to focus on the use of facial recognition in other parts of the world in 2021. Facial recognition systems are a form of mass surveillance that violate the right to privacy and threaten the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression.
The technology exacerbates systemic racism as it could disproportionately impact people of color, who are already subject to discrimination and violations of their human rights by law enforcement officials. Black people are also most at risk of being misidentified by facial recognition systems.