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CITIES
AND
STATES PUSH
BACK ON FACIAL RECOGNITION SOFTWARE
Concerns about privacy and racial profiling are limiting deployments of the technology
BY TERESA WILTZ
Fabian Rogers was none too pleased when the landlord of his rent- stabilized Brooklyn high-rise announced plans to swap out key fobs for a facial recognition system.
He had so many questions: What happened if he didn’t comply? Would he be evicted? And as a young black man, he worried that his biometric data would end up in a police lineup without him ever being arrested. Most of the building’s tenants are people of color, he said, and they are already concerned about overpolic- ing in their New York neighborhood.
“There’s a lot of scariness that comes with this,” said Rogers, 24, who along with other tenants is try- ing to legally block his management company from installing the technology.
“You feel like a guinea pig,” Rog- ers said. “A test subject for this technology.”
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