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In New York, “racist” surveillance cameras

In New York, CCTV cameras tend to swarm more easily in the “non-white” neighborhoods of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. Where residents are already more likely to be stopped and searched by the police on mere suspicion. In a new report published on Tuesday, Amnesty International asserts that facial recognition technologies “reinforce racist methods of stop and search by the police”.

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