{"id":891,"date":"2026-05-19T12:17:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=891"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:17:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:17:49","slug":"nyc-council-pushes-to-ban-stores-from-collecting-biometric-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2026\/05\/19\/nyc-council-pushes-to-ban-stores-from-collecting-biometric-data\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Council pushes to ban stores from collecting biometric data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City lawmakers are pushing to ban private businesses from using biometric tools like voice and facial recognition software to track the public.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council on Monday held a hearing on proposed legislation that seeks to rein in the type of \u201cBig Brother\u201d surveillance that has grown more common in apartment buildings and grocery stores like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/not-just-wegmans-more-nyc-retailers-using-facial-recognition-as-tech-outpaces-law\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macy\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/nyc-wegmans-is-storing-biometric-data-on-shoppers-eyes-voices-and-faces\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wegmans<\/a>, a Rochester-based chain with locations in Brooklyn and Manhattan that began storing biometric data of shoppers earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe urgency comes from earlier this year when we learned that Wegmans is now using biometric technology,\u201d Hanif said during Monday\u2019s hearing. \u201dA lot of us, including myself, shop at Wegmans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/nyc-council-pushes-to-ban-stores-from-collecting-biometric-data\">here<\/a> <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City lawmakers are pushing to ban private businesses from using biometric tools like voice and facial recognition software to track the public.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council on Monday held a hearing on proposed legislation that seeks to rein in the type of \u201cBig Brother\u201d surveillance that has grown more common in apartment buildings and grocery stores like&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2026\/05\/19\/nyc-council-pushes-to-ban-stores-from-collecting-biometric-data\/\">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-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}