Joana Flores, an MTA spokesperson, said the AI system doesn’t flag fare evaders to New York police, but she declined to comment on whether that policy could change. A police spokesperson declined to comment.Erik McGregor / LightRocket via Getty Images file
“We’re using it essentially as a counting tool,” Minton said. “The objective is to determine how many people are evading the fare and how are they doing it.” “This is a moment where movement around the city has never been more surveilled,” said Albert Fox Cahn, the director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a nonprofit legal group that advocates for privacy rights in New York City.
histories. We see tens of thousands of cameras accessible to the NYPD when people are walking about in public,” Cahn said. “So it’s increasingly becoming a city where there’s no way to navigate it privately.”