A video of an NYPD officer recording concert attendees leaving the Apollo Theater after a Drake performance drummed up privacy concerns.
The Apollo Theater is back in the national spotlight, but not for Amateur Night. Last month, a viral video of an NYPD officer recording concert attendees leaving the legendary Harlem venue after a Drake performance“We’re deeply concerned facial recognition may have been involved, and demand the department destroy any footage it took,” said the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project communications director Will Owen in a statement.
But given the public backlash, there’s certainly a veritable anxiety over facial recognition and distrust with the NYPD involving rap—the department’s Enterprise Operations Unit is famously dubbed the “hip-hop police.” Owen later expressed to the“If the NYPD was trying to do some sort of social media outreach, we think that they need to find a better social media strategy than showing up at a concert and filming Drake fans without their consent,” he said.
The NYPD began employing facial recognition as a crime-fighting tool in 2011, according to its website. Matches are not grounds for arrest. The department also claims the technology is not used to identify those in crowds or rallies. “They don’t want opposing counsel to come onto their premises unsupervised and interview their employees and take videos and pictures of places that injuries might have happened,” he said. “And I understand and respect that standpoint. However—and it’s a huge however—I do not think the practice shouldn’t be allowed from a policy standpoint.”
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