The Syracuse Common Council will vote on its biometric law in two weeks, after it was tabled at their meeting on Monday. That law would prevent businesses from using biometric identification surveillance systems. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), those systems can collect and analyze various information, including the shape of people's faces and eyes, along with their voice and even how they walk. "Biometric scanning makes a lot of mistakes based on people that look a little bit alike, but imagine were it makes mistakes where people don't look anything alike, and they're just tracking skin color or how far apart your eyes, the size of your lips, the size of your nose, it's scary to me," Jimmy Monto, 5th District councilor, said. Banks would be exempt from the law given safety concerns. The addendum to existing laws was sponsored by Councilors Monto, Chol Majok and Corey J. Williams. Erie County passed a similar law last week. The proposal comes after Wegmans recently deployed cameras equipped with facial recognition technology at select stores, saying some stores are using the technology to help with misconduct and retail theft, and that it doesn't collect other biometric data and disposes of the images and video after security purposes are fulfilled.
Syracuse Common Council to discuss biometric identity technology restrictions
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