Our groups to NYC Council: Small Investment in OpenRecords FOIL Site Equals Big Transparency Gains
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“Surveillance data gets around. That’s what it’s designed to do.”
In a new op-ed, S.T.O.P. Research Director Eleni Manis and Executive Director Michelle Dahl call on Mayor Mamdani to end NYC's vast apparatus of surveillance and data sharing that endangers New Yorkers.
Read more in amNY.
ICE heavily relies on agencies of all kinds to fuel the deportation machine, but over the past decade they've increasingly relied on the police-to-deportation pipeline to do so. Read the growing list of reported cases of law enforcement collusion with #ICE in NY state: bit.ly/NY-ICEwatch
“If [Mount Sinai is] logging your appointment and location and identity with Clear, it can reveal extremely sensitive facts,” said S.T.O.P. Executive Director Michelle Dahl. “You are, just by going to a doctor’s appointment, essentially becoming an advertising target.”
“Surveillance technologies are increasingly being deployed against the public to undermine our First Amendment rights and our right to call out the injustices of our government,” said S.T.O.P. Communications Director Will Owen.
“A new report released Thursday by the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project lays out eight steps the mayor, a longtime critic of police surveillance, could take without waiting for the City Council or state lawmakers.”
Read more about S.T.O.P.’s latest report, “Dear Mamdani.”
Last week, we filed a complaint on behalf of the family of Alexis Cardenas, a 32yo husband and father of 4 who died after multiple jail officers assaulted and restrained him while he was being released from the Harris County Jail. HCSO's culture of violence has prompted 2 federal investigations.
One of New York's largest hospital networks will use biometric tech to verify patient and employee identity: “New Yorkers should not have to hand over their faces to receive healthcare,” said S.T.O.P. Communications Director Will Owen.
Read more.
www.biometricupdate.com/202603/clear...
"This is a moment where the failure of the whole surveillance solutionism market is coming into the foreground," said S.T.O.P. Founder-in-Residence Albert Fox Cahn.
Read more in an interview about "Move Slow and Upgrade," out now!
www.techpolicy.press/in-age-of-di...
"Intelligence sharing between various levels of government," said S.T.O.P. Communications Director Will Owen, has "allowed ICE to sidestep sanctuary laws and co-opt local police databases and surveillance tools."
Read more.
www.baltimorebrew.com/2026/03/04/e...
"Meta is willing to share data with law enforcement...to continue chipping away at Americans’ privacy and civil rights,” said S.T.O.P Communications Director Will Owen.
Read more about how sharing your camera roll with apps puts your privacy in danger.
www.huffpost.com/entry/phone-...
S.T.O.P.'s Power Down Surveillance campaign is bringing you a new event series to break down the tech behind mass surveillance—and how communities can push back.
First session: ICE Surveillance 101
🗓️March 19 | 2 PM ET
Register:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
S.T.O.P.'s Power Down Surveillance campaign is bringing you a new event series to break down the tech behind mass surveillance—and how communities can push back.
First session: ICE Surveillance 101
🗓️March 19 | 2 PM ET
Register:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join the fight to stop surveillance! You can support S.T.O.P. as a charity runner in upcoming races, including the NYC United Half Marathon on March 15th.
Visit stopspying.org/marathons to learn more.
#Marathon #UnitedHalf #NYCHalf
S.T.O.P. joined @cdt.org, the @brennancenter.org, and @rightsdissent.bsky.social in signing an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to reject an overbroad geofence warrant.
cdt.org/insights/cdt...
www.law360.com/articles/244...
Yesterday, March 2nd, S.T.O.P. held a press conference and rally alongside civil rights groups and Council Members urge the New York City Council to ban facial recognition and other forms of biometric surveillance.
Read more.
#NYC #Surveillance #BanTheScan
www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-bio...
"Time and time again, facial recognition has been used to jeopardise the safety and violate the rights of Black and Brown New Yorkers...The technology is incompatible with human rights law and the City must now urgently move to ban in it." @amnesty.org's Matt Mahmoudi
"We cannot let technologies that systematically discriminate against people of color determine where people can go and whether they pose a risk." @legalaidnyc.bsky.social's Laura Moraff
"To allow this technology to operate in essential businesses invites discrimination at scale. Policymakers have a responsibility to prevent tools with known racial bias from causing harm." - Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU Law's Nina Loshkajian
"Whether it’s buying groceries, opening your front door, or attending a sports game, the current lack of regulation over biometric surveillance technology is...defying basic Constitutional principles and putting New Yorkers at risk." @nyclu.org's Medha Raman
"We’ve seen over and over how facial recognition perpetuates discrimination and systemic bias, and we’re proud to continue fighting for legislation that will ban these technologies in housing and public spaces." - STOP's Corinne Worthington
BREAKING: Council Members, Advocates Rally Against Facial Recognition Before City Council Considers Bans
@cmshahanahanif.bsky.social @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social #BanTheScan #FacialRecognition #surveillance
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Tell Sen. Chuck Schumer to stand firm against ICE's rogue terrorism. Not one more penny for violence and abuse in our communities! 🙅🧊💵
Call his NYC office at (212) 486-4430 and use the script below.
You can also reach him using our email tool at nyic.me/dhs-shutdown
@cmshahanahanif.bsky.social @cmpisanchez.bsky.social @nyclu.org @legalaidnyc.bsky.social @nycdsatech.bsky.social
MEDIA ADVISORY: Council Member Shahana Hanif Will Rally to Ban Biometric Recognition Technology Alongside Advocates
Monday, March 2nd, 9 AM. Details here:
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
“Dear Mamdani,” today’s report from S.T.O.P., gives Mayor Mamdani a roadmap to ending NYC’s surveillance state.
Read more at the link below, and read the full report at stopspying.org/dear-mamdani.
#NYC #Surveillance #NYPD #Mamdani
Columbia student Ellie Aghayeva was reportedly detained by DHS agents at her university-owned apartment after they used ‘misrepresentations’ to gain access to the building.
"Mayor Mamdani needs to deliver on his promises to dismantle NYC's surveillance state. This report shows him exactly how." - Manis #NYPD #surveillance @mayor.nyc.gov
"Our city’s surveillance infrastructure puts immigrant New Yorkers at risk, and threatens anyone the Trump administration may target next: protestors, healthcare seekers, blacklisted researchers, journalists." - Manis #NYPD #surveillance @mayor.nyc.gov
"Mayor Mamdani has denounced data-sharing that enables ICE and condemned NYPD’s use of facial recognition, the gang database, and social media monitoring tools. But eight weeks into his administration, he has yet to act." - STOP Research Director Eleni Manis #NYPD #surveillance @mayor.nyc.gov
