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The NYPD is not revealing capable accusation astir however it's spending taxation dollars connected surveillance technology, 2 advocacy groups say.
The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP) and the Legal Aid Society obtained paperwork connected 5 NYPD contracts for surveillance technology worthy $15 cardinal implicit the past 8 years. The documents, which the groups received done a Freedom of Information Law request, is heavy redacted.
That flouts the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act, which the City Council passed past year, the advocates say. The caller instrumentality mandated the NYPD uncover surveillance-related expenses, however it uses the exertion to support ticker connected New Yorkers and however it protects the accusation collected.
The contracts and related expenses had antecedently been exempt from public disclosure and were classified arsenic "special expenses" successful the NYPD's budget.
The contracts bash uncover the companies providing the NYPD with cutting-edge technology. Morpho Trak, which specializes successful biometrics—such arsenic facial recognition and iris scanning—has an $11.4 cardinal woody with the NYPD.
The Harris Corp. has a two-year, $1.2 cardinal declaration with the NYPD for Stingrays, which springiness precise locations of compartment phones. The declaration was signed successful 2013.
The NYPD noted Monday that the contracts obtained by STOP and Legal Aid were released earlier the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act went into effect and that it is successful compliance with the caller law.
The Police Department besides invoked the upcoming 20-year day of 9/11, saying the section "will stay everlastingly vigilant successful leveraging the astir existent technologies and nationalist information tools to support this metropolis and its inhabitants harmless from danger."
But Albert Cahn, STOP's enforcement director, said the constabulary are fearmongering.
"The NYPD has been saying the entity is falling for years," Cahn said. "We've seen laws successful different cities astir the state that spell overmuch further, that necessitate details of each vendor being used, and those cities are conscionable arsenic harmless today."
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