Amnesty International (AI) denounced that the New York Police has at its disposal more than 15,000 surveillance cameras with which it can monitor citizens through a facial recognition program and has asked the authorities to prohibit this practice.
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In Times Square, one of the busiest places in the Big Apple, the presence of police cameras is evident at all intersections. Raising your eyes a little above the passers-by, tourists and extras and at the height of the illuminated signs that dress the buildings of this emblematic place, it is easy to count a score of cameras without making a great effort.
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There are hundreds of “video cameras or surveillance cameras here. Most of them are outdoors, but there are also several cameras here that we can’t see. It really feels like a Big Brother state where they are monitoring us and we don’t know exactly what the repercussions of being watched will be, “activist Derrick Ingram told EFE in Times Square, comparing New York with George’s dystopian novel” 1984 “. Orwell.
According to the NGO, the Police can feed a facial recognition software with images from 15,280 surveillance cameras in the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx and according to Ingram, also known as Dwreck, at this time “the New York Police have more than 22,000 open cases (since 2017) in which they use facial recognition, but are not transparent about the details ”and refuse to offer more information.
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