NEW YORK, NY, December 04, 2010 (Press-News.org) In a move questioned by the New York Civil Liberties Union and some of New York's top lawyers, the New York Police Department is now using machines to photograph and scan the irises of prisoners as they pass through New York Central Booking. The department claims that this new high-tech identification program is part of a failsafe measure meant to prevent escapes as suspects move through New York's complex and winding court system.
Individuals deeply concerned with civil liberties and privacy, like New York top lawyer David Perecman, are uneasy with new regime of personal data collection.
"The NYPD can now photograph the irises of suspects arrested for any reason and they implemented this without any legislative oversight or public discourse," said David Perecman. "There are also no reports on how authorities plan to protect this collected biometric data from misuse."
News of the initiative was first released late last week. Civil libertarians and privacy advocates say the collecting and storing of this data could "put innocent people under permanent suspicion."
"This move by the NYPD is encroaching on civil liberties," top New York lawyer Perecman said. "This type of data collecting is not authorized by any New York statute. Collecting fingerprints is specifically allowed. DNA evidence has had more legislative debate and its usage is only limited to certain types of cases."
A legal review by the NYPD had determined that legislative authorization was not necessary despite the fact that the department's collection of electronic data has been tainted with controversy as recently as this summer. The department was forced to stop electronic storage of names and addresses of people stopped under the stop-and-frisk program but not charged or arrested.
"A new state law was needed to stop the NYPD then, and that may be what we need again now," concluded Perecman. "This new data collection has the potential to lead to some serious violations of civil liberties."
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NYPD's Adoption of Iris Scanning Technology May Violate Civil Liberties, Says Top New York Lawyer David Perecman
The New York Police Department starts using iris scans on suspects, a move questioned by top New York Lawyers at the Perecman Firm.
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