Ever felt like you’re being watched?
Amnesty International has today launched a campaign to ban all forms of mass surveillance that reinforce racist policing. On Monday, Amnesty International issued an international call to the United Nations Security Council and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to ban any form of mass surveillance that increases racial police brutality, violates human rights and threatens the rights of people of color and threatens protests.
Amnesty calls for a broad ban that would prevent any government agency from using, developing or selling technology in any form for the same purpose. The prohibition of all surveillance, including the use of surveillance cameras and other forms of mass surveillance technology, will be a necessary part of the demilitarization of police forces. Amnesty International calls for an international ban on the export of all monitoring systems and equipment to each country and has called for an export ban on the technologies and systems it requires.
The “Ban the Scan” campaign started in New York City and will be extended to the world by 2021 to focus on the use of mass surveillance technology by law enforcement agencies in the US and other countries. The “Ban Scanning” campaign launched on Monday, October 30, 2017 with New Yorkers outside the NYPD’s Manhattan headquarters to support Amnesty International’s campaign for a global ban on surveillance cameras and technologies, with a focus on police surveillance systems and their use by police forces around the world in 2017 and 2018, and 2019 and 2020. The map project is a partnership with Amnesty International, the International Union for Civil Rights and Human Rights Watch, and part of a larger campaign called No Scans, sponsored by Amnesty International.
The goal of Amnesty’s “Ban the Scan” campaign is to increase pressure on New York City to pass laws regulating and ending the use of surveillance and facial recognition. The map project is a partnership with Amnesty International, the International Union for Civil Rights and Human Rights Watch, and part of a larger campaign called No Scans, which is supported by Amnesty International and its partners. In the first phase of the project announced last Thursday, Amnesty and its partners launched a website that allows New Yorkers to create a map of all surveillance cameras in the city and their locations.
The American Civil Liberties Union of New York (ACLU) is one of the best-known groups to publicly support this policy, citing its potential to reduce the spread of HIV and reduce violence against sex workers.
As part of the Ban Scan campaign, Amnesty will run a website that allows New Yorkers to comment on the NYPD’s use of facial recognition. Amnesty International will work with volunteers to locate and record surveillance cameras in New York City through an app. Volunteers will be able to use software to identify the cameras they see at intersections, where many cameras are often located. We have been pushing for years for a ban on police surveillance of sex workers in the United States, and our next fight will be against New Jersey, but now we will also be fighting for it in New York, with the help of our friends from Amnesty.
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Clearview AI is a New York-based start-up that supplies facial recognition technology to law enforcement agencies such as the US Department of Homeland Security and the NYPD. Amnesty International and ElementAI demonstrated how AI can be used to help trained human moderators identify and quantify online abuse against a woman on Twitter. We had the opportunity to issue a map showing where in the city cameras for face recognition have been installed. This map is needed so that citizens can see where the NYPD is monitoring them in their daily lives,” said Amnesty’s deputy director for human rights and public order, Dr. Michael O’Neill.
The police use of facial recognition technology violates personal rights, and in some cases the public does not know that their faces are scanned for facial recognition features when they pass through New York intersections. This makes it difficult for activists to fight the use of facial recognition systems by police in New York City. There are many local agencies that are widely used in the region, such as the Police Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the New Jersey State Police.