Security News > 2023 > March > NYPD blues: Cops ignored 93 percent of surveillance law rules

The NYPD has rejected 93 percent of the advice from an independent oversight body, the Department of Investigations' Office of the Inspector General for the force about how to comply with the law.

These include recommendations like identifying the organizations with which NYPD shares surveillance data: "NYPD should identify in each IUP each external agency, by name, with which the Department can share surveillance data."

"The NYPD continues to make clear that they don't care what the law says," said Surveillance Technology Oversight Project executive director Albert Fox Cahn.

The report says the NYPD has rejected around 25 percent of DOI recommendations over the past eight years but it has only fully accepted 58.5 percent.

"Cahn from STOP took issue with that statement."The NYPD continues to systematically hide the billions it spends on unproven and biased surveillance technology," he said in an email to The Register.

"The City Council was clear in what they expected from the NYPD, and the Department simply isn't following the law. Now they just are flat out lying when they say they fully comply with the POST Act. The POST Act is one of the weakest surveillance oversight laws in the country, but the NYPD still refuses to meet even these minimal transparency requirements." .

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