Image Recognition
New video The human rights group Amnesty International maps the locations of over 15,000 cameras used by the NYPD for both routine surveillance and facial recognition searches. A video by Amnesty International shows how surveillance cameras in New York City work. The NYPD has been using cameras in approximately 22,000 facial recognition searches since 2017, based on NYPD documents obtained by the NYPD privacy group Surveillance Technology Surveillance Project. The most monitored district in NYC is East New York, Brooklyn, where the group found 577 cameras in less than two square miles. In May, the Vice President asked the mayoral candidate if he would support the ban on facial recognition.