{"id":918,"date":"2026-08-06T17:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=918"},"modified":"2026-08-06T17:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:01:25","slug":"fearing-threat-to-immigrants-advocates-push-for-new-regulations-on-facial-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2026\/08\/06\/fearing-threat-to-immigrants-advocates-push-for-new-regulations-on-facial-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearing Threat to Immigrants, Advocates Push for New Regulations on Facial Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As biometric identification becomes more commonplace in New York, private companies are more easily able to collect data on New Yorkers\u2019 lives \u2013 and advocates and some elected officials believe this should stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They fear the information, which includes individuals\u2019 faces, names and voices, could land in the hands of law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or hackers, either intentionally or through data breaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, Council Member Shahana Hanif explained the reasoning behind her bill to ban biometric data collection in public spaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis bill protects everybody,\u201d she said, \u201cbut we know who experiences disproportionate surveillance, and our immigrant community is among them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/documentedny.com\/2026\/08\/03\/nyc-facial-recognition-biometric-data\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As biometric identification becomes more commonplace in New York, private companies are more easily able to collect data on New Yorkers\u2019 lives \u2013 and advocates and some elected officials believe this should stop.<\/p>\n<p>They fear the information, which includes individuals\u2019 faces, names and voices, could land in the hands of law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or hackers, either intentionally or through data breaches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2026\/08\/06\/fearing-threat-to-immigrants-advocates-push-for-new-regulations-on-facial-recognition\/\">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-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","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=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}