San Francisco Banned Facial Recognition. Should New York?

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 16, 2019

In light of San Francisco's ban on the use of facial recognition technology, Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP) at the Urban Justice Center, discusses the use of facial recognition in New York City, and what the advent of other surveillance technology means for privacy.

"NY has one of the broadest deployments of facial recognition" in the country. @CahnLawNY says NYPD has a facial database. MTA's automatic toll processing on bridges also scans faces.
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NY should follow San Fran's lead, by banning facial recognition "until we have evidence that [it] works, that it works equitably," @CahnLawNY says, calling it a sensible moratorium
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@CahnLawNY says court challenges to facial recognition could point to SCOTUS striking down warrant-less cellphone tracking. "It's no different if you're tracking where I go around the city using my cellphone, or using a series of cameras using facial recognition."
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