BREAKING: COUNCIL MEMBER SHAHANA HANIF, ADVOCATES RALLY AT MSG TO DEMAND BAN ON FACIAL RECOGNITION TECH
#BanTheScan #MSG #MSGEntertainment #FacialRecognition
www.stopspying.org/content-inpu...
#BanTheScan #MSG #MSGEntertainment #FacialRecognition
www.stopspying.org/content-inpu...
S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
www.stopspying.org
August 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
BREAKING: COUNCIL MEMBER SHAHANA HANIF, ADVOCATES RALLY AT MSG TO DEMAND BAN ON FACIAL RECOGNITION TECH
#BanTheScan #MSG #MSGEntertainment #FacialRecognition
www.stopspying.org/content-inpu...
#BanTheScan #MSG #MSGEntertainment #FacialRecognition
www.stopspying.org/content-inpu...
"Going to a show should not be conditioned on being subjected to invasive, racially biased monitoring that puts fans at risk of getting harassed, falsely arrested, deported, or worse." @fightforthefuture.org's @evangreer.bsky.social #BanTheScan #MSG #MSGEntertainment
August 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
"Going to a show should not be conditioned on being subjected to invasive, racially biased monitoring that puts fans at risk of getting harassed, falsely arrested, deported, or worse." @fightforthefuture.org's @evangreer.bsky.social #BanTheScan #MSG #MSGEntertainment
On Friday, we joined @shahanafrombk.bsky.social, @fightforthefuture.org, @nycdsatech.bsky.social and @jimowlesclub.bsky.social outside MSG for a rally to #BanTheScan in NYC.
Read more here:
www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/m...
Read more here:
www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/m...
'Ban the Scan': Momentum builds to curb MSG facial recognition technology
One of the largest venues in the city, Madison Square Garden, is at the center of a campaign gaining momentum at City Hall to ban the surveillance tech.
www.nbcnewyork.com
August 17, 2026 at 9:19 PM
On Friday, we joined @shahanafrombk.bsky.social, @fightforthefuture.org, @nycdsatech.bsky.social and @jimowlesclub.bsky.social outside MSG for a rally to #BanTheScan in NYC.
Read more here:
www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/m...
Read more here:
www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/m...
We must pass my bill, Intro. 217, to #BanTheScan before biometric surveillance becomes irreversibly entrenched in our lives.
legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationD...
legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationD...
The New York City Council - File #: Int 0217-2024
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to prohibiting places or providers of public accommodation from using biometric recognition technology and prote...
legistar.council.nyc.gov
October 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We must pass my bill, Intro. 217, to #BanTheScan before biometric surveillance becomes irreversibly entrenched in our lives.
legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationD...
legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationD...
BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Applauds Syracuse Facial Rec. Ban, Calls on NYC to Follow
"Syracuse just showed the rest of New York how to protect residents from facial recognition." - STOP Advocacy and Community Engagement Manager Corinne Worthington #BanTheScan
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"Syracuse just showed the rest of New York how to protect residents from facial recognition." - STOP Advocacy and Community Engagement Manager Corinne Worthington #BanTheScan
www.stopspying.org/content-inpu...
S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
www.stopspying.org
May 20, 2026 at 6:11 PM
BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Applauds Syracuse Facial Rec. Ban, Calls on NYC to Follow
"Syracuse just showed the rest of New York how to protect residents from facial recognition." - STOP Advocacy and Community Engagement Manager Corinne Worthington #BanTheScan
www.stopspying.org/content-inpu...
"Syracuse just showed the rest of New York how to protect residents from facial recognition." - STOP Advocacy and Community Engagement Manager Corinne Worthington #BanTheScan
www.stopspying.org/content-inpu...
@nycspeakeradams.bsky.social use of facial recognition tech is dangerous and puts BIPOC, Muslim, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ communities, in New York at great risk of wrongful arrest + even police violence. #BanTheScan
www.banthescan.org
www.banthescan.org
Ban the Scan
Ban Facial Recognition in New York
www.banthescan.org
July 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
@nycspeakeradams.bsky.social use of facial recognition tech is dangerous and puts BIPOC, Muslim, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ communities, in New York at great risk of wrongful arrest + even police violence. #BanTheScan
www.banthescan.org
www.banthescan.org
BREAKING: Amnesty International, S.T.O.P. Lawsuit Reveals NYPD Surveillance Abuses #BanTheScan @amnestyuk.bsky.social
"New York promises to be a sanctuary city, but we’ve created nothing short of a surveillance state." - S.T.O.P. Executive Director Michelle Dahl
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
"New York promises to be a sanctuary city, but we’ve created nothing short of a surveillance state." - S.T.O.P. Executive Director Michelle Dahl
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
Amnesty International, S.T.O.P. Lawsuit Reveals NYPD Surveillance Abuses — S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
www.stopspying.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
BREAKING: Amnesty International, S.T.O.P. Lawsuit Reveals NYPD Surveillance Abuses #BanTheScan @amnestyuk.bsky.social
"New York promises to be a sanctuary city, but we’ve created nothing short of a surveillance state." - S.T.O.P. Executive Director Michelle Dahl
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
"New York promises to be a sanctuary city, but we’ve created nothing short of a surveillance state." - S.T.O.P. Executive Director Michelle Dahl
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
We are fighting every day to #BanTheScan in New Yorkers' homes. @keithpowersnyc.bsky.social, will you be doing your part to protect privacy rights by sponsoring Intro 425?
Learn more about Intro 425: banthescan.org
Learn more about Intro 425: banthescan.org
December 13, 2024 at 7:56 PM
We are fighting every day to #BanTheScan in New Yorkers' homes. @keithpowersnyc.bsky.social, will you be doing your part to protect privacy rights by sponsoring Intro 425?
Learn more about Intro 425: banthescan.org
Learn more about Intro 425: banthescan.org
Join us on July 8 for our Biometric Map Training, on how to use S.T.O.P.'s community-sourced Biometric Map to report sites of facial recognition, palm scans, and more surveillance tools across NYC.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#BanTheScan
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#BanTheScan
July 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Join us on July 8 for our Biometric Map Training, on how to use S.T.O.P.'s community-sourced Biometric Map to report sites of facial recognition, palm scans, and more surveillance tools across NYC.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#BanTheScan
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#BanTheScan
Analysis by @amnestyuk.bsky.social and S.T.O.P. of the over 2,700 documents to date reveals that facial recognition technologies (FRT) were used on several occasions by the NYPD, subjecting New Yorkers to invasive, flawed, and deeply discriminatory surveillance technologies. #BanTheScan
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Analysis by @amnestyuk.bsky.social and S.T.O.P. of the over 2,700 documents to date reveals that facial recognition technologies (FRT) were used on several occasions by the NYPD, subjecting New Yorkers to invasive, flawed, and deeply discriminatory surveillance technologies. #BanTheScan
"Public facial recognition sparks the normalization of invasive government control, in a society that has become complacent to an already suffocating surveillance culture." - Cristy Road Carrera, Author, Artist, Musician #BanTheScan
August 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
"Public facial recognition sparks the normalization of invasive government control, in a society that has become complacent to an already suffocating surveillance culture." - Cristy Road Carrera, Author, Artist, Musician #BanTheScan
You don’t get to be Privacy Commissioner in Aotearoa unless you’re adept at knowing which way the government’s donors want the wind to be blowing.
The perennial false ‘balance’ between enabling innovation and protecting people’s rights.
Webster enabling the surveillance society.
#BanTheScan
The perennial false ‘balance’ between enabling innovation and protecting people’s rights.
Webster enabling the surveillance society.
#BanTheScan
Sometimes it's bad to be right: "The NZCCL turned out to be correct, and the Privacy Commissioner wrong, when the latter said just a week ago that its approval of a trial of facial recognition technology by Foodstuffs was “not a green light for more general use”."
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
The Post
www.thepost.co.nz
June 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
You don’t get to be Privacy Commissioner in Aotearoa unless you’re adept at knowing which way the government’s donors want the wind to be blowing.
The perennial false ‘balance’ between enabling innovation and protecting people’s rights.
Webster enabling the surveillance society.
#BanTheScan
The perennial false ‘balance’ between enabling innovation and protecting people’s rights.
Webster enabling the surveillance society.
#BanTheScan
From grocery stores to arenas, businesses to residences, facial recognition is everywhere in New York. It’s time to #BanTheScan.
Visit banthescan.org to join the fight.
#PowerDownSurveillance #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #NYC
Visit banthescan.org to join the fight.
#PowerDownSurveillance #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #NYC
May 12, 2026 at 5:38 PM
From grocery stores to arenas, businesses to residences, facial recognition is everywhere in New York. It’s time to #BanTheScan.
Visit banthescan.org to join the fight.
#PowerDownSurveillance #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #NYC
Visit banthescan.org to join the fight.
#PowerDownSurveillance #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #NYC
Big win for Buffalo and Erie County! Now let’s make it statewide: no facial recognition in public accommodations anywhere in New York.
#BanTheScan
prismreports.org/2026/06/24/a...
#BanTheScan
prismreports.org/2026/06/24/a...
Erie County, New York, bans businesses from using facial recognition
After a Wegmans disclosure, Erie County, New York, passed one of the most restrictive facial recognition laws in the U.S. on May 26
prismreports.org
June 25, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Big win for Buffalo and Erie County! Now let’s make it statewide: no facial recognition in public accommodations anywhere in New York.
#BanTheScan
prismreports.org/2026/06/24/a...
#BanTheScan
prismreports.org/2026/06/24/a...
"When people come to my show I want them to feel like they are part of a community, to feel safe and welcome...The use of this technology will do the opposite of that." - Paisley Fields, Musician #BanTheScan
August 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
"When people come to my show I want them to feel like they are part of a community, to feel safe and welcome...The use of this technology will do the opposite of that." - Paisley Fields, Musician #BanTheScan
Gesichtserkennung. Drohnen. Social-Media-Monitoring. In Argentinien entsteht ein techno-autoritäres Überwachungssystem zur Kontrolle der Bevölkerung. Neuer Amnesty-Bericht👇
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
#BanTheScan
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
#BanTheScan
August 19, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Gesichtserkennung. Drohnen. Social-Media-Monitoring. In Argentinien entsteht ein techno-autoritäres Überwachungssystem zur Kontrolle der Bevölkerung. Neuer Amnesty-Bericht👇
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
#BanTheScan
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
#BanTheScan
"We shouldn’t have to hand over our faces to cheer on the Knicks, catch a concert, or pick up groceries. It’s long past time the City Council pass Intro. 0213 to ban the scan in public accommodations." - STOP Executive Director Michelle Dahl #BanTheScan #MSG #MSGEntertainment
August 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
"We shouldn’t have to hand over our faces to cheer on the Knicks, catch a concert, or pick up groceries. It’s long past time the City Council pass Intro. 0213 to ban the scan in public accommodations." - STOP Executive Director Michelle Dahl #BanTheScan #MSG #MSGEntertainment
BREAKING: Council Members, Advocates Rally Against Facial Recognition Before City Council Considers Bans
@cmshahanahanif.bsky.social @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social #BanTheScan #FacialRecognition #surveillance
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
@cmshahanahanif.bsky.social @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social #BanTheScan #FacialRecognition #surveillance
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
Council Member, Advocates Rally Against Facial Recognition Before City Council Considers Bans — S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
www.stopspying.org
March 2, 2026 at 8:27 PM
BREAKING: Council Members, Advocates Rally Against Facial Recognition Before City Council Considers Bans
@cmshahanahanif.bsky.social @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social #BanTheScan #FacialRecognition #surveillance
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
@cmshahanahanif.bsky.social @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social #BanTheScan #FacialRecognition #surveillance
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
"Biometric surveillance in our grocery stores and businesses is an invasion of privacy that disproportionately harms communities of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ New Yorkers." - Worthington #BanTheScan #FacialRecognition
May 20, 2026 at 6:11 PM
"Biometric surveillance in our grocery stores and businesses is an invasion of privacy that disproportionately harms communities of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ New Yorkers." - Worthington #BanTheScan #FacialRecognition
"Madison Square Garden has shown us exactly what happens when corporations are allowed to deploy facial recognition without meaningful limits: they use it to track, profile, and blacklist people they don't like." - @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social #BanTheScan #MSG #MadisonSquareGarden
August 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
"Madison Square Garden has shown us exactly what happens when corporations are allowed to deploy facial recognition without meaningful limits: they use it to track, profile, and blacklist people they don't like." - @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social #BanTheScan #MSG #MadisonSquareGarden
Ban The Scan! Facial recognition has no place in our homes and public spaces. Call City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and ask her to call a vote on Intros 217 & 425 TODAY! #BanTheScan
www.banthescan.org/outreach
www.banthescan.org/outreach
July 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ban The Scan! Facial recognition has no place in our homes and public spaces. Call City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and ask her to call a vote on Intros 217 & 425 TODAY! #BanTheScan
www.banthescan.org/outreach
www.banthescan.org/outreach
Join us on July 8 for our Biometric Map Training, on how to use S.T.O.P.'s community-sourced Biometric Map to report sites of facial recognition, palm scans, and more surveillance tools across NYC.
Register at the link in bio!
#BanTheScan
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register at the link in bio!
#BanTheScan
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
July 1, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Join us on July 8 for our Biometric Map Training, on how to use S.T.O.P.'s community-sourced Biometric Map to report sites of facial recognition, palm scans, and more surveillance tools across NYC.
Register at the link in bio!
#BanTheScan
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register at the link in bio!
#BanTheScan
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
New Yorkers deserve to shop and live without being tracked! Stop facial recognition surveillance in NYC! Ask City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to call a vote on Intros 217 & 425. #BanTheScan
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October 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
New Yorkers deserve to shop and live without being tracked! Stop facial recognition surveillance in NYC! Ask City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to call a vote on Intros 217 & 425. #BanTheScan
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Your face is not a barcode.
NYC stores like Wegmans are collecting biometric data on shoppers—faces, eyes, even voices. This is surveillance, not “innovation.”
We’re joining #BanTheScan to stop biometric surveillance in stores and public spaces. bit.ly/3NHI6DC
NYC stores like Wegmans are collecting biometric data on shoppers—faces, eyes, even voices. This is surveillance, not “innovation.”
We’re joining #BanTheScan to stop biometric surveillance in stores and public spaces. bit.ly/3NHI6DC
January 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Your face is not a barcode.
NYC stores like Wegmans are collecting biometric data on shoppers—faces, eyes, even voices. This is surveillance, not “innovation.”
We’re joining #BanTheScan to stop biometric surveillance in stores and public spaces. bit.ly/3NHI6DC
NYC stores like Wegmans are collecting biometric data on shoppers—faces, eyes, even voices. This is surveillance, not “innovation.”
We’re joining #BanTheScan to stop biometric surveillance in stores and public spaces. bit.ly/3NHI6DC
The time is NOW to ban #FacialRecognition and other biometric surveillance in NYC stores and venues. Reach out to your NYC Council Member today and demand they sponsor Int. 0217 to protect New Yorkers’ privacy in public!
#BanTheScan
www.banthescan.org#action
#BanTheScan
www.banthescan.org#action
July 31, 2024 at 5:13 PM
The time is NOW to ban #FacialRecognition and other biometric surveillance in NYC stores and venues. Reach out to your NYC Council Member today and demand they sponsor Int. 0217 to protect New Yorkers’ privacy in public!
#BanTheScan
www.banthescan.org#action
#BanTheScan
www.banthescan.org#action