And the NYPD is going through and using in a way that only makes that risk more pronounced. He's been arguing with the NYPD about how they use this technology for a number of years.Īlbert Fox Cahn: You have this incredibly powerful technology, but it's already prone to certain types of errors and to certain types of bias. Jennifer Strong: But scare tactics aren't the only ones he's concerned about.
We just wanted to scare the public into thinking we had facial recognition so that they wouldn't skip their fare. And recently we got a favorable decision from a New York state judge who said that the MTA wrongly withheld information about those monitors without providing us any explanation of how they were being used, whether there was facial recognition involved and what the purpose of setting them up in the first place was because the MTA's justification for using these monitors was 'don't worry.' These aren't facial recognition.
