Rashida Richardson | Surveillance Technologies

Policy Projects

Security cameras representing Rashida Richardson's work on the social implications or surveillance technologies — Surveillance Technologies

Research and policy advocacy documents evaluating the civil rights and social implications of surveillance technologies and privacy-preserving policy interventions.

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Biometric Technologies

Facial Recognition in the Public Sector: The Policy Landscape (2021)

Bottom-Up Biometric Regulation: A Community’s Response to Using Face Surveillance in Schools (2020)

Amici Letter to New York Division of Homes and Community Renewal Regarding Owner’s Application to Install Facial Recognition Entry System (2019) PDF

TSA Test See-Through Scanners on Public in New York’s Penn Station (2018)

Drones

NYCLU Testimony Regarding Drone Regulation (2015)

Predictive Technologies

Dirty Data, Bad Predictions: How Civil Rights Violations Impact Police Data, Predictive Policing Systems, and Justice (2019)

Addressing the Harmful Effects of Predictive Analytics Technologies (2020)

Privacy Regulation

Comments to European Commission on AI Policy (2020) PDF

Comments to Canada’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner on Data Privacy Law and AI (2020) PDF

New York Electronic Communications Privacy Act (2017)

NYCLU Resource Page on the New York Electronic Communications Act (2017)

Surveillance Databases

It's Time for a Reckoning About This Foundational Piece of Police Technology (2020)

Coalition Letter on NYPD Inspector General to Audit the NYPD "Gang Database" (2020)

Textalyzer

Testimony in Opposition to New York State Legislation S.2306/A.3955 (2017)

Transparency Regulation

New Bill Holds NYPD Accountable For Surveillance Technology (2017)

NYCLU Testimony in Support of the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act (2017) PDF

New York City’s Public Oversight of Surveillance Technologies Law (2020)