{"id":175983,"date":"2026-01-09T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/civil-rights-group-condemns-nyc-transit-authoritys-pursuit-of-ai-video-analytics-systems\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:30:27","slug":"civil-rights-group-condemns-nyc-transit-authoritys-pursuit-of-ai-video-analytics-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/civil-rights-group-condemns-nyc-transit-authoritys-pursuit-of-ai-video-analytics-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil rights group &#8216;condemns&#8217; NYC transit authority&#8217;s pursuit of AI video analytics systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/civil-rights-group-condemns-mta-ai-video-analytics\/\">Civil rights group &#8216;condemns&#8217; NYC transit authority&#8217;s pursuit of AI video analytics systems<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/civil-rights-group-condemns-mta-ai-video-analytics\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/civil-rights-group-condemns-mta-ai-video-analytics\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-09 13:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The New York privacy group STOP has criticized the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) for its request for information (RFI) on AI video analytics tools.<\/li>\n<li>The MTA\u2019s RFI seeks tools for detecting forbidden objects, monitoring unattended items, and analyzing unusual behaviors on public transit vehicles.<\/li>\n<li>STOP claims that this RFI will lead to the expansion of invasive surveillance technologies across New York City.<\/li>\n<li>Past AI initiatives, such as a failed weapons detection program in the city&#8217;s subway system, have highlighted issues such as high false positive rates and unethical advertising.<\/li>\n<li>STOP argues against MTA\u2019s AI experimentation, emphasizing concerns over the disproportionate targeting of marginalized groups and the failure of prior surveillance projects.<\/li>\n<li>While the MTA states the RFI is for evaluation purposes only, STOP believes it indicates an upcoming increase in surveillance.<\/li>\n<li>The MTA&#8217;s RFI mentions the pursuit of ethically designed and behaviorally expert-informed solutions for public safety.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil rights group &#8216;condemns&#8217; NYC transit authority&#8217;s pursuit of AI video analytics systems https:\/\/statescoop.com\/civil-rights-group-condemns-mta-ai-video-analytics\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1213546025.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175985,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175983\/revisions\/175985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}