Privacy Group Seeks Police Records on Times Square Surveillance

A New York-based privacy group has gone to court to seek records on police use of facial recognition technology in Times Square.

The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP) petitioned the New York City Police Department in the state’s supreme court on July 18 for failing to answer the group’s earlier disclosure requests.

The records fight comes as New York City’s mayor on July 15 signed a police reform law that requires reporting on surveillance tools the department uses. Other cities, such as Boston and San Francisco, have banned police use of facial recognition technology amid protests over police brutality and ...