A technology privacy group raised concerns about New York City's extensive surveillance practices, labeling the network dangerous and ineffective. The report, from the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, critiques facial recognition technology and surveillance cameras for compromising privacy and civil liberties. It illustrates that surveillance extends beyond the NYPD, involving various city systems and agencies. Critics highlight the lack of transparency and inaccuracy of these technologies. Despite the controversies, city officials assert that such technologies play an essential role in crime reduction.
These technologies lack transparency by design; they have high rates of inaccuracy, Berglund told amNewYork. We wanted to invite local communities and everyday New Yorkers into a conversation about better understanding what the threats of these technologies are.
New Yorkers face surveillance not only through widespread cameras and facial recognition technology, which the NYPD manages or can access, but also through non-police systems, such as OMNY (the tap-and-go subway system), mobile location data, Citi Bike terminals, license plate readers and doorbell cameras.
The main actors that are pointed to are usually NYPD or other law enforcement actors, but it really is a broad constellation of actors that come together, sometimes without awareness of exactly the threat that they are creating.
Kayla Mamaluk, City Hall press secretary, said the city's policing strategy has reduced crime by using the technology at its disposal.
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