Surveillance Showdown

Surveillance technology is becoming increasingly pervasive in our day-to-day lives. From facial recognition technology falsely identifying innocent people to police circumventing standard practices to obtain your private information and messages, the need to protect our community grows stronger every day. 

For New Yorkers, these problems hit close to home. We saw this with Madison Square Garden’s abuse of facial recognition technology to prevent lawyers from enjoying hockey games and concerts. We also saw it with the introduction of the NYPD’s Digidog, with New York taxpayers unknowingly funding technology that can easily be turned against them. And with the overturning of the Roe decision, constant invasive tracking has endangered those seeking abortion care within our borders.

Since 2019, S.T.O.P. has stood up to the surveillance state. We write groundbreaking laws, publish cutting-edge research, and take police departments to court. Earlier this year, we introduced a 10-bill package with first-of-their-kind legislation banning the surveillance technology that attacks our individual freedoms. Whether it’s facial recognition, social media monitoring, DNA dragnets, or military-grade drones, we’re dismantling mass surveillance one spy tool at a time.

We’re winning this fight, but we need your help to keep it up. For years, surveillance salesmen pitched their technology as essential to safety, but as our work has proven, it’s only harming us.  Surveillance companies have billions of dollars in venture capital – but we have you.

Your support would pave the way for a new generation of organizers and activists to tackle systems of mass surveillance that many today begin to question the validity of. As this movement continues to gain momentum, your support will be everlasting in our fight to properly educate and protect our communities.

  • $50 is the cost of printing “know-your-rights” privacy toolkits for protestors

  • $100 is the cost of hosting one privacy training for community organizers

  • $300 is the cost of filing a new lawsuit against vendors abusing facial recognition technology 

  • $500 is the cost of leading a “Ban Big Brother” rally to outlaw dystopian and military grade tech pointed at our communities

  • $1000 is the cost of producing a research report on how police use Google searches and location data

We can control the technology of the future, or the technology of the future will control us. The choice is ours.

Want to learn more about S.T.O.P.’s work? Check out our advocacy campaigns, lawsuits, surveillance research, and upcoming events.

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