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Digital volunteers to expose scale of facial recognition technology in New York City


4 May 2021, 23:11 UTC
Amnesty International has launched an innovative crowdsourcing project to help uncover the magnitude of the use of facial recognition technology in New York City.
Decode Surveillance NYC will see thousands of digital volunteers from all over the world virtually descend on New York to map CCTV and other public cameras that can be used with facial recognition software to track people across the city. The ambitious project is the latest for the ground-breaking Amnesty Decoders, which sees a global community of digital activists participate in research through crowdsourcing data-driven projects.
By harnessing the power of volunteers across the world, Decode Surveillance NYC will attempt to show that it is virtually impossible for New Yorkers to go about their daily lives, without risking being tracked by facial recognition. ....

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