Friend,
Facial recognition is all around New York City. From Wegmans to Madison Square Garden, it’s used to surveil people going about their day-to-day lives: shopping for food, heading to a concert, going to a doctor’s appointment.
You might’ve seen a sign in a grocery store or local business––NYC law requires any place of public accommodation to post clear signage at customer entrances. Now, you can document these instances of potential biometric information-gathering in our Biometric Map, a crowdsourced map of NYC businesses collecting your data. Help us show just how dense this surveillance network is and push back against the unchecked sprawl of these technologies.
You can also take action by supporting our Ban the Scan campaign to ban the use of biometrics in places of public accommodation and use by landlords. Facial recognition is prone to error, weaponized by law enforcement for wrongful arrest and profiling, and vulnerable to hackers and data brokers trying to access your biometric information—it doesn’t belong in our stores or homes!
Facial recognition doesn’t make us safer, it puts us at risk. It’s time to ban the scan.
Visit banthescan.org to join our coalition, to call on your legislators to support these bills, and to learn more about how we can advocate for the right to privacy in New York City.
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In solidarity,
Will Owen
Communications Director
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