If You Blinked, You Might Have Missed Us.

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Friend,

This past week, S.T.O.P. was moving so fast that if you blinked, you might have missed us.

There were even more op-eds, discussing the privacy threat from Mayor de Blasio’s plan to add a “smart” tracking chip to IDNYC municipal IDs. But we didn’t just put our objections in print, we also testified before the New York City Council, condemning the effort as a threat to 1.2 million New Yorkers’ privacy.

Five days later, we were back at City Hall, this time testifying about the danger of facial recognition in residential and commercial venues. Oh, and we had an op-ed about it too, our twentieth of the year!

That’s already a lot, but it’s just the start. We also released our first ever whitepaper! Our study examines the privacy threat from the MTA’s OMNY fare payment system.

OMNY rolled out earlier this year as a way for New Yorkers to pay for the bus and subway. As our research shows, unless the MTA improves its privacy protections, every trip becomes yet another datapoint for the NYPD and potentially even ICE. And if that weren’t already enough, we joined a national call for Facebook to preserve end-to-end encryption on its platform, protecting all of its users privacy.

In solidarity,
Team S.T.O.P.

Our First White Paper!

Our Team

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Newslettercommunications staffOctober 7, 2019