New York City is covered in at least 25,000 surveillance cameras and they’re exacerbating “racist stop-and-frisking” in the city’s predominantly non-white neighborhoods, says Amnesty.
If you’re in New York City today, there’s a very good chance your face will be captured by surveillance cameras and run through facial recognition software. If you’re in a predominantly Black, Asian or Hispanic community in New York City, that chance is even greater.
Amnesty's surveillance camera tracker lets users see how at risk they are of being subjected to facial recognition.Matt Mahmoudi, researcher and adviser at Amnesty International on artificial intelligence and human rights, said that while the racial bias is a concern, the technology will get better at more accurately matching all faces, regardless of cover. That doesn’t make it any less of a major threat to people’s privacy, he added.
Amnesty is today releasing its dataset and methodology to prove its findings and to open up the potential for further research. And, to highlight the pervasiveness of those thousands of cameras across the city, Amnesty Mahmoudi hopes that rather than encourage people from trying to hide from facial recognition, citizens are compelled to call for legal action to ban the technology. “Our hope with this ... is to get people to write to their council persons and pressure them to introduce the bill that a coalition of civil society organizations and ourselves are trying to get introduced into the council in the next few months. And it's also a call for them to hold the NYPD accountable.
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