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stopspyingny.bsky.social
🎊ICYMI🎊 @nycmayor wants to #BanTheScan in public accommodations in NYC.

@nyclu.org
@legalaidnyc.bsky.social
@amnesty-usa.bsky.social
@fightforthefuture.org
@nyulaw.bsky.social

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November 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
fightforthefuture.org
The likes of James Dolan and Donald Trump have shown the world just how dangerous mass surveillance systems can be. We urge the New York city council to pass Intro 0213 to protect the civil rights of all New Yorkers 🛡️

#BanTheScan banthescan.org
November 9, 2026 at 3:54 PM
stopspyingny.bsky.social
"With Mayor Mamdani joining a majority of the city council in supporting a biometric surveillance ban in places of public accommodation, the city is poised to end private surveillance empires like Dolan’s." - Jibran Ludwig, Policy Strategist at @fightforthefuture.org #BanTheScan
November 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
stopspyingny.bsky.social
BREAKING: S.T.O.P., Ban The Scan Coalition Applaud Mamdani Endorsement of City Council Bill Banning Facial Rec. In Public Accommodations

@mayor.nyc.gov #BanTheScan #FacialRecognition
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S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
www.stopspying.org
November 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
stopspyingny.bsky.social
"Mayor Mamdani is right: New Yorkers don’t want highly invasive surveillance cameras watching and tracking their every move." - Medha Raman, Policy Counsel at
@nyclu.org #BanTheScan #FacialRecognition
November 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
stopspyingny.bsky.social
"Mayor Mamdani is right: New Yorkers don’t want highly invasive surveillance cameras watching and tracking their every move." - Medha Raman, Policy Counsel at @nyclu.org #BanTheScan #FacialRecognition
November 5, 2026 at 5:42 PM
stopspyingny.bsky.social
"New Yorkers continue to be subjected to invasive facial recognition technology when they shop, attend events, and just attempt to live their lives. We welcome Mayor Mamdani's support of Intro 0213...and we urge the City Council to pass the bill immediately."
@jdgreco.bsky.social #BanTheScan
November 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
stopspyingny.bsky.social
"New Yorkers continue to be subjected to invasive facial recognition technology when they shop, attend events, and just attempt to live their lives. We welcome Mayor Mamdani's support of Intro 0213...and we urge the City Council to pass the bill immediately." @jdgreco.bsky.social #BanTheScan
November 5, 2026 at 5:42 PM
stopspyingny.bsky.social
@mayor.nyc.gov supports banning the scan in public accommodations 👏👏👏

Learn more about @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social's bill and the movement to #BanTheScan in NY here:
banthescan.org
November 3, 2026 at 5:50 PM
dissent.digital
NYC lawmakers are fighting to ban facial recognition scanning at Madison Square Garden. #banthescan
New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG
At a press conference outside Madison Square Garden, politicians, musicians, and privacy advocates argued for tighter restrictions on how public venues deploy biometric surveillance.
www.wired.com
August 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
schweiz.amnesty.ch
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
August 19, 2026 at 10:17 AM
stopspyingny.bsky.social
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...
'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
shahanafrombk.bsky.social
We must pass my bill, Intro. 217, to #BanTheScan before biometric surveillance becomes irreversibly entrenched in our lives.
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
steceroni.bsky.social
How can you help protect your community and yourself against mass surveillance at protest? 1. Check out these resources 2. Take action and #BanTheScan

banthescan.amnesty.org/#resources
Inside the NYPD’s Surveillance Machine | Amnesty International
Inside the NYPD’s Surveillance Machine Your face is being tracked. Find out where. Help ban facial recognition technology.
banthescan.amnesty.org
April 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
openpolicy.bsky.social
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
nzccl.org.nz NZ Council for Civil Liberties @nzccl.org.nz · Jun 11
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...
The Post
www.thepost.co.nz
June 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
katiaroux.bsky.social
Amnesty International a documenté l’impact des outils de reconnaissance faciale sur les droits humains aux États-Unis, en Inde, dans les Territoires palestiniens occupés, en Russie, en Iran, en Hongrie.

#BanTheScan
banthescan.amnesty.org/index.html
Inside the NYPD’s Surveillance Machine
Inside the NYPD’s Surveillance Machine Your face is being tracked. Find out where. Help ban facial recognition technology.
banthescan.amnesty.org
May 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
katiaroux.bsky.social
En 2021, @amnesty.org et ses partenaires avaient enquêté sur le développement massif des technologies de #surveillance dans la ville d'Hyderabad en Inde et alerté sur les risques en matière de droits humains inhérents à la reconnaissance faciale. 👇 #BantheScan
www.amnesty.fr/liberte-d-ex...
Reconnaissance faciale : l’Inde sur le point de choisir la surveillance totale
En Inde, la ville d'Hyderabad construit un immense centre de traitement de données de surveillance. Cela fait craindre le développement massif de la reconnaissance faciale, une technologie qui menace ...
www.amnesty.fr
April 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
katiaroux.bsky.social
"Si des caméras augmentées sont aujourd’hui installées, qui empêchera un jour l’un ou l’autre pouvoir de les augmenter encore un peu plus ?" @franceculture.fr

#VSA #BanTheScan
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Reconnaissance faciale, état de l’art
Alors que la ville de Moisans (Isère) s’est vu interdire par le Tribunal administratif l’usage d’un logiciel susceptible de faire de la reconnaissance faciale, la vidéosurveillance algorithmique s’ins...
www.radiofrance.fr
February 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
stopspyingny.bsky.social
"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
stopspyingny.bsky.social
"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
stopspyingny.bsky.social
"We should not have to give up our faces to attend a basketball game. We should not have to let our gaits be analyzed just to buy a toothbrush." - @nycdsatech.bsky.social's Raaid Arshad #BanTheScan
August 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
stopspyingny.bsky.social
"Facial recognition technology is invasive, ripe for abuse, and has reportedly already been used to profile New Yorkers based on their gender identity and sexual orientation." - Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal #BanTheScan #FacialRecognition
August 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
stopspyingny.bsky.social
"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