Why a Lawsuit filed against NYPD?

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The NYPD sued by a think tank due to disability in announcing details regarding its secret face recognition program. The CPT (Center on Privacy & Technology) of Georgetown University blamed that the New York Police Department hasn’t yet implemented the FOIL (Freedom of Information Law) of the New York State by splitting over information on the system. Point to be noted that the NYPD started in 2011 to investigate crimes. A number of groups submitted FOIL requests for documentation and training manuals. The New York Police Department urged that they didn’t receive any request, so CPT is taking NYPD to the court. Just one document was shared by the NYPD, a memo of Chief of Detectives instructed officers on protocol to submit a request for a face recognition program search. It has been confirmed that the program is there, but they don’t know how to use it.

A former NYPD official informed that they don’t know how it was built and what kind of privacy protections exists in the citizen’s face database. It is generating considerations that the face recognition program had managed over 8,500 face identification investigation leading to 2 thousand arrests since 2011. The NYPD was unable to deny the existence of purchase invoices for the program. But, department claimed that they couldn’t be requested by FOIL and it is another claim CPT mentioned in its lawsuit. The New York City shouldn’t be considered the only place in the State investing in face recognition program. The NY DMV’s face recognition system was managed more than 100 arrests since January 2016.