NYPD Used FDNY's Facial Recognition to Identify Pro-Palestinian Protester
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Summary
The NYPD used the FDNY's facial recognition software to identify a pro-Palestinian protester at Columbia University, bypassing restrictions on the Police Department's use of the technology. The details of this arrangement were revealed in a recent court decision and a lawsuit filed by the Legal Aid Society.
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Details of the arrangement emerged in a recent decision by a Manhattan criminal court judge and in a lawsuit seeking information from the FDNY filed this month by the Legal Aid Society.
Barred from using Clearview AI, NYC police relied on a marshal in the fire department to run a search that turned up photos of the student at his high school graduation.
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