MTA banned from using facial recognition to enforce fare evasion
Buried in the new state budget is one sentence with major implications for the future of MTA fare enforcement: a ban on the use of facial recognition.
“There has long been a concern could invade upon people's lives through expanded surveillance and through the criminalization of just existing within the public sphere,” Mamdani said.last weekend. In typical Albany fashion, small changes to laws or rules were crammed into the sprawling document, including the facial recognition ban, without public debate. Transparency advocates often derisively refer to the document as the “Big Ugly” for that reason.
An MTA spokesperson said in a statement that the agency has never used facial recognition in its expanding surveillance system. The agency is in the midst of installing cameras in every subway station and some train cars., which has access to MTA video feeds. It wasn’t clear if the new state law precludes the NYPD from using its facial recognition programs on MTA surveillance footage of fare evaders.
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