Policy Projects

 
Security cameras representing Rashida Richardson's work on the social implications or surveillance technologies

Surveillance Technologies

Research and policy advocacy documents evaluating the civil rights and social implications of surveillance technologies and privacy-preserving policy interventions.

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 Biometric Technologies

Facial Recognition in the Public Sector: The Policy Landscape (2021)
Bottom-Up Biometric Regulation: A Community’s Response to Using Face Surveillance in Schools (2020)
TSA Test See-Through Scanners on Public in New York’s Penn Station (2018)

 Drones

NYCLU Testimony Regarding Drone Regulation (2015)

 Predictive Technologies

Addressing the Harmful Effects of Predictive Analytics Technologies (2020)

Privacy Regulation

Comments to European Commission on AI Policy (2020) PDF
Comments to Canada’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner on Data Privacy Law and AI (2020) PDF
New York Electronic Communications Privacy Act (2017)
NYCLU Resource Page on the New York Electronic Communications Act (2017)

 Surveillance Databases

It's Time for a Reckoning About This Foundational Piece of Police Technology (2020)
Coalition Letter on NYPD Inspector General to Audit the NYPD "Gang Database" (2020)

Textalyzer

Testimony in Opposition to New York State Legislation S.2306/A.3955 (2017)

 Transparency Regulation

New Bill Holds NYPD Accountable For Surveillance Technology (2017)
NYCLU Testimony in Support of the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act (2017) PDF
New York City’s Public Oversight of Surveillance Technologies Law (2020)