{"id":205,"date":"2023-04-12T20:48:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T20:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=205"},"modified":"2023-05-02T20:50:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T20:50:05","slug":"nyc-lawmakers-seek-ban-on-facial-scans-to-identify-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/04\/12\/nyc-lawmakers-seek-ban-on-facial-scans-to-identify-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Lawmakers Seek Ban on Facial Scans to Identify Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bloomberg Law &#8211; City Council Member Shahana Hanif is spearheading the proposal that would make it \u201cunlawful\u201d for places of public accommodation like MSG to use any biometric recognition technology to identify customers. Council Member Jennifer Guti\u00e9rrez is also sponsoring the measure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy experience as a Muslim New Yorker raised in the post 9\/11 era of Muslim surveillance has forced me to be attuned to how excessive surveillance and invasive technology can be used to discriminate against Black and brown New Yorkers,\u201d Hanif wrote in a statement to Bloomberg Law [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/nyc-lawmakers-seek-to-ban-businesses-from-facial-recognition-use-1\">Read More<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Law &#8211; City Council Member Shahana Hanif is spearheading the proposal that would make it \u201cunlawful\u201d for places of public accommodation like MSG to use any biometric recognition technology to identify customers. Council Member Jennifer Guti\u00e9rrez is also sponsoring the measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy experience as a Muslim New Yorker raised in the post 9\/11 era of Muslim surveillance has forced me to be attuned to how excessive surveillance and invasive technology can be used to discriminate against Black and brown New Yorkers,\u201d Hanif wrote in a statement to Bloomberg Law [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/nyc-lawmakers-seek-to-ban-businesses-from-facial-recognition-use-1\">Read More<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/04\/12\/nyc-lawmakers-seek-ban-on-facial-scans-to-identify-customers\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}