New Yorkers in high stop-and-frisk areas subject to more facial recognition tech

A New York City police department surveillance camera in Times Square, New York. Volunteers have mapped 25,500 CCTV cameras throughout the city. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA

New Yorkers who live in areas where controversial stop-and-frisk searches happen most frequently are also more likely to be surveilled by facial recognition technology, according to research by Amnesty International and other researchers.

Research also showed that in the Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens boroughs of the city there was a direct correlation between the proportion of non-white residents and the concentration of controversial facial recognition technology.