Civil Rights Groups Hold Online Press Conference Ahead Of Biden, Adams Meeting, Oppose NYC Surveillance Expansion

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Civil Rights Groups Hold Online Press Conference Ahead Of Biden, Adams Meeting, Oppose NYC Surveillance Expansion

(NEW YORK, NY, 1/31/2022) – On Thursday, February 3rd at 9 AM EST Amnesty International, Innocence Project, Legal Aid Society, National Lawyers Guild, the NYU Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, The Policing and Social Justice Project, and The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) will hold an online press conference ahead of President Biden’s meeting with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, opposing Adams’ proposed expansion of police surveillance. Participants will call on both President Biden and Mayor Adams to stop use of biased, error-prone, and invasive technologies. The press conference comes in response to Adams’ proposed expansion of facial recognition, gun detection AI, and unproven police technologies.

WHAT: Civil Rights Groups Hold Online Press Conference Ahead Of Biden, Adams Meeting, Oppose NYC Surveillance Expansion
 
WHO:
  • Amnesty International Advisor on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Matt Mahmoudi;
  • Innocence Project Executive Director, Christina Swarns;
  • Legal Aid Society Digital Forensics Supervising Attorney, Jerome Greco;
  • National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee Co-Chair, Erica Johnson;
  • NYU Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law Executive Director, Jason Williamson;
  • The Policing and Social Justice Project Coordinator, Alex Vitale;
  • S.T.O.P. Executive Director, Albert Fox Cahn.
WHEN: Thursday, February 3rd, 9 AM EST
 
WHERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZjWgP0grTcCT8C9hJsIVHQ
 
CONTACT: S.T.O.P. Communications Manager William Owen

SEE: Politico - Biden to talk gun violence with Adams in visit to NYC
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/26/biden-gun-violence-eric-adams-new-york-00002460
 
Press Release - S.T.O.P. Condemns Adams’ Proposed Gun Detection Software
https://www.stopspying.org/latest-news/2022/1/24/stop-condemns-adams-proposed-gun-detection-software

NY Daily News - Adams must not drag us toward tech dystopia
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-adams-must-not-drag-us-toward-tech-dystopia-20220125-27ds6gddx5brdkl2pxlieyj5bq-story.html


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