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The New York Police Department is facing new opposition to its ongoing use of facial recognition, with Amnesty International, the NYCLU and other groups calling for a citywide ban on the surveillance technology.
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.