Tell NYPD Not to Use Driver's Licenses for Facial Recognition

New York City's police force wants access to the state's database of driver's licenses in order to expand its facial recognition technology to include millions of innocent drivers.

Please sign this petition to ask NYPD to cancel its request and plans to seize driver license data for face ID!

The NYPD has a poor track record of accountability. It took 9 months of litigation for the NYPD to publicly disclose documents related to its already-existing facial recognition program, which currently only includes people who have had a mugshot taken. 

None of the NYPD documents turned over on its existing program includes policy that spells out when exactly a photograph of a person can be run through the system, giving the police a startling amount of power and free reign over its use of our biometric data.

NYPD also has a history of targeting innocent people. The city's stop-and-frisk program was a huge infringement on our civil liberties: it allowed police to stop people on the street and detain, question and search them. The program was a massive violation of due process rights. At the height of the program in 2011, 685,724 were stopped. The NYPD's poor track record of regard for our civil liberties means we should be weary to entrust them with our biometric data.

Facial recognition technology could also be used for harm if not undertaken very carefully. Imagine if police were able to identify who was in attendance at a protest. This could have a chilling effect on our constitutional rights to free speech and freedom of assembly.

In addition, facial recognition software has the potential to be inaccurate, which could lead to innocent people going jail just because they look like someone else!

Until the NYPD can be fully clear on its policies, procedures and limitations on its use of facial recognition technology, and until the technology becomes more accurate, entrusting so much biometric data in the hands of the police paves the way to Orwellian overreach.

Please sign this petition to ask NYPD to cancel its request/plans to seize driver license data for facial recognition technology.
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