This bill would prohibit police from creating fake social media accounts and coercing people to provide social media passwords. Police use fake accounts to monitor Black Lives Matter activists and deceive children into exposing private content. See our memo of support here.

This bill would narrow law enforcement exemptions in the Personal Privacy Protection Law (PPPL) to require a warrant and expands the law to cover local agencies. New Yorkers should not have to choose between receiving government benefits and maintaining privacy. See our memo of support here.

This bill would end the partnership between the NYPD and Amazon that allows the NYPD to participate in the ring neighbors program.

Creates the New York electronic communications privacy act; requires government agents and agencies to obtain a search warrant for physical or electronic access to electronic device information.

Enacts the "digital fairness act"; requires any entity that conducts business in New York and maintains the personal information of 500 or more individuals to provide meaningful notice about their use of personal information; establishes unlawful discriminatory practices relating to targeted advertising.

This bill would prohibit New York transit authorities and their vendors from sharing fare payment data with police without a warrant. It also requires a cash payment option for transit cards in each station with a capped cost, protecting unbanked New Yorkers from a privacy/poverty tax. See our memo of support here.

This bill would prohibit law enforcement use of biometric surveillance, such as facial recognition. Facial recognition software is biased, broken, and antithetical to a democratic society. It is up to 100 more likely to misidentify women of color than white men. Numerous people, disproportionately Black, have been wrongly arrested after being misidentified through facial recognition.

This bill would require the Department of Buildings (DOB) to establish a pilot program for the use of drones, in conjunction with physical examinations and close-up inspections, in the inspection of building façades. See our memo of opposition here.

This bill would prohibit the implementation of any biometric surveillance system or biometric surveillance information in public accommodation sites.

This bill would prohibit the use of facial recognition by landlords on all premises.

This bill would prohibit the implementation of any biometric surveillance system or biometric surveillance information in public accommodation sites.

This bill would require certain employees of the New York state department of corrections and community supervision to wear body cameras.

This bill would authorize certain local municipal agencies to use surveillance cameras to combat illegal dumping.

This bill would establish criteria for the use of automated employment decision tools; provides for enforcement for violations of such criteria.

This bill would require that the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) install surveillance cameras in each community district to identify any person depositing household refuse in a public litter basket.

This bill would require the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) to install a camera on each street sweeper, which would photograph and report a parking violation, to the DSNY Commissioner who would report the violation to the Department of Finance (DOF) and NYPD for enforcement.

This bill would require the division of criminal justice services to publish a public, searchable database of police infractions misconduct complaints on its website.

This bill would prohibit law enforcement from obtaining an individual’s electrical or gas consumption data without a court-ordered subpoena, warrant or the individual’s written consent.

This bill would prohibit police agencies from using robots that are weaponized, robots that are non-weaponized but dangerous, or robots used for surveillance.