The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York has been barred from using facial recognition technology to catch fare beaters, according to Gothamist.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York has been barred from using facial recognition technology to catch fare beaters, according to Gothamist.
"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. "Imposing harsher fines for fare evasion criminalizes poverty and puts vulnerable New Yorkers at risk," Michael Sisitzky, a policy expert at the nonprofit New York Civil Liberties Union, wrote in a statement. "It's encouraging that Gov.
According to technology and civil rights experts, facial recognition is not infallible. The nonprofit Innocence Project cited six cases to Gothamist of Black people who were falsely accused of crimes after being misidentified by facial recognition technology.
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