Surveillance cameras throughout New York City allow police to track citizens via invasive facial recognition software, Amnesty International reported.
The international organization’s investigation found that a combined 15,280 surveillance cameras in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx enable the New York City Police Department to track people.
“This sprawling network of cameras can be used by police for invasive facial recognition and risk turning New York into an Orwellian surveillance city,” said Matt Mahmoudi, Artificial Intelligence & Human Rights Researcher at Amnesty International.
“You are never anonymous. Whether you’re attending a protest, walking to a particular neighborhood, or even just grocery shopping — your face can be tracked by facial recognition technology using imagery from thousands of camera points across New York.”
Volunteers tagged 8,220 cameras at intersections in Brooklyn, 3,590 in Manhattan, and 3,470 in the Bronx — almost half (47%) of the intersections in New York City.
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I don’t see the problem with this.
2:04, until you show up on the camera near a crime scene and some lazy cops will decide to charge you instead of pursuing a real perpetrator, and you’ll need to spend 50k in legal fees in order to prove your innocence. And I can think of a dozen more scenarios where you will be severely disadvantaged no matter how much you “have nothing to hide”.
If I were so worried about lazy cop charging me for being near the scene of a crime I would worry about it even without the camera, And I would look forward to the money I’ll make in my lawsuit over wrongful arrest
11:23, you are very naive. Your chances of receiving anything over a wrongful arrest are directly proportional to your amount of melanin pigmentation.
It is very difficult to charge someone for only having been seen NEAR the scene of a crime. Let alone actually convict them. It’s only when someone can be proven having been AT the scene of a crime when they become a suspect. If Ch’v I’m by the scene of a crime the police don’t need any cameras to find me. I’ll talk to them on my own and give whatever info I have (after speaking to a lawyer first)
11:46, you don’t understand how the system works: a prosecutor has unlimited resources, and can charge anyone with anything, and a corrupt overzealous prosecutor, who only cares about his conviction record, can never be sued in a civil court, let alone criminally. You, on the other hand, have very limited resources, and you won’t be able to continue defending yourself once the legal bill grows higher than your equity. Which is exactly the reason why most people agree to plea-deals. Most cops are manipulative antisemites, and are not your friends. If you are smart, you would want to minimize all interactions with cops and persecutors.
First defund the police, and now hide cameras?