SurveillanceMedium
Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest
- Occurred
- Aug 7, 2020
- Published
- Aug 19, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Black Lives Matter activists alleged being targeted for arrest by New York Police using facial recognition, interfering with their right to protest.
Developers
- Surveillance technology developers
- Facial recognition system developers
- Clearview AI
Deployers
- New York City Police Department
Harmed parties
- Privacy
- General public of New York City
- General public
- Derrick Ingram
- Democratic integrity
- Black people
- Black Lives Matter activists
- Biometric data subjects
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves facial recognition technology used by police, fitting surveillance category with allegations of rights interference.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8