{"id":192179,"date":"2026-03-02T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/nycs-tech-office-doesnt-know-how-agencies-are-using-ai-biometric-data-official-admits-in-oversight-hearing\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:10:12","slug":"nycs-tech-office-doesnt-know-how-agencies-are-using-ai-biometric-data-official-admits-in-oversight-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/nycs-tech-office-doesnt-know-how-agencies-are-using-ai-biometric-data-official-admits-in-oversight-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s tech office doesn&#8217;t know how agencies are using AI, biometric data, official admits in oversight hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/nyc-ai-biometric-oversight-hearing\/\">NYC&#8217;s tech office doesn&#8217;t know how agencies are using AI, biometric data, official admits in oversight hearing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/nyc-ai-biometric-oversight-hearing\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/nyc-ai-biometric-oversight-hearing\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-02 17:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>City officials struggled to answer questions about the use of artificial intelligence and biometric data during a New York City Council oversight hearing.<\/li>\n<li>Lawmakers are considering two bills to ban biometric data collection in businesses and residential areas, while questioning the deployment of such tools by government agencies.<\/li>\n<li>Alex Foard, assistant commissioner at the Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI), admitted limited oversight and that OTI does not track all biometric data collection.<\/li>\n<li>Council members criticized OTI for its lack of information, enforcement power, and strategy in regulating the use of these technologies across city agencies.<\/li>\n<li>Despite a recent leadership change at OTI, committee members continued to press for transparency and clearer policies on the government\u2019s use of biometric data and AI, particularly around civil rights issues.<\/li>\n<li>OTI was urged to provide specific datasets and information on the use of these technologies by city agencies following council committee discussions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC&#8217;s tech office doesn&#8217;t know how agencies are using AI, biometric data, official admits in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2212467246.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-192179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192179"}],"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=192179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192181,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192179\/revisions\/192181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}