Speaking to Al Jazeera, Albert Fox Cahn called the New York City Police Department’s Domain Awareness System (DAS) platform the “largest municipal intelligence operation in the country, if not world“.
Through the DAS, the NYPD collects the identity, location, banking details, vehicle information, social media activity, and friend groups of all who live in or enter the city. It combines these entries with civil and criminal records and converts them into digital profiles that chart people’s thoughts, plans, beliefs, and affiliations—reconstructing, in effect, the private lives of millions.
In October, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), the New York-based privacy and civil rights group which Albert founded, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of two New Yorkers who have a video camera owned and operated by the NYPD pointing directly into their home.
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