Last month we asked you to join us and our coalition partners in supporting the POST Act. We were thrilled to see so many New Yorkers voice support for the bill, but we were especially glad to hear from one supporter: The New York Times!
That’s right, the Gray Lady herself joined the growing chorus of New Yorkers demanding that we pass the POST Act!
The time has come to close the NYPD’s “surveillance loophole” and let lawmakers know what spy tools the NYPD uses to monitor New Yorkers. The POST Act holds the NYPD to the same standard as the FBI, which already issues “privacy and use” policies on when tools can be used and with whom the data can be shared. Join us in telling the City Council to pass the #POSTAct!
Today, none of us know how much of our surveillance information is being shared with the Trump Administration…even I.C.E. We need to know how the NYPD is using spy tools like “stingrays”, fake cell towers that can monitor phone traffic for an entire neighborhood. Without oversight, there’s no way to protect the bystanders whose data is taken for simply being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Make sure you join us and the New York Times in telling the City Council to pass the #POSTAct!
With thanks,
Albert Fox Cahn, Esq.
Executive Director
