USA: NYPD ordered to hand over documents detailing surveillance of Black Lives Matter protests following lawsuit

The New York Police Department (NYPD) has been ordered to disclose thousands of records of how the force procured and used facial recognition technology against Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters, after the New York Supreme Court ruled in favor of Amnesty International and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) on their joint Article 78 lawsuit.

“New Yorkers demanding racial justice have a right to know the full details of NYPD’s use of facial recognition technology during the BLM protests. 

Matt Mahmoudi, Amnesty International’s Researcher on Artificial . . .

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