S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

ChatGPT promised to forget user conversations. A federal court ended that promise. Learn more about how OpenAI is preserving your data following this ruling in Senior Legal Fellow Dario Maestro's new op-ed. #ChatGPT #OpenAI @thehill thehill.com/opinion/judici…

“We think this is a deeply dangerous and error-prone technology that puts New York safety at risk" - @FoxCahn  Read more & access related resources below:  - citylimits.org/opinion-the-ny… - stopspying.org/shotspotter spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/capital-re…

S.T.O.P. condemns Eric Adams’ launch of a New York City portal on Citizen, the controversial crowdsourced surveillance app. Apps like Citizen fuel racial profiling and fear, not safety.   shorturl.at/lC081

Legal Fellow Jason Taper joined @TodaysVerdict to discuss the recent federal arrest of NYC Comptroller Brad Lander and what it reveals about ICE enforcement in the city.  youtube.com/watch?v=svh1CD…

"There is a huge amount of risk that the data that is collected in the privacy of our own cars will be used against us, whether by law enforcement or immigration officials or simply being monetized without our consent.” - @FoxCahn  fortune.com/2025/07/19/elo…

“Militarized police tech is not a toy, it’s a threat to our safety and democracy...they try to promote it like a high-tech gadget and avoid the hard questions.” - @FoxCahn inquirer.com/politics/phila…

“The NYPD keeps using these incredibly disturbing companies to spy on New Yorkers, while hiding that surveillance from the public and violating New York City law in the process" - @FoxCahn thecity.nyc/2025/07/18/nyp…

“New Yorkers deserve real safety.” Comms Director Will Owen condemns Gov. Hochul's "cartoon cop" drones as “Wasting public dollars to invade our privacy," thereby "putting our rights to free speech and protest at risk.”  shorturl.at/w2xrb

Trump's $6bn border surveillance expansion includes massive funding for facial recognition ($673m) and social media monitoring. “The spending is not about safety, it’s about growing Trump’s power through an agency like DHS" - Laura Rivera, @JustFuturesLaw  theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

“We’re proud to be a place that is safe for immigrants, people seeking abortion, and people who are seeking gender-affirming healthcare...In order to be fully a sanctuary state, we also have to be a data sanctuary state.” - Adam Schwartz, @EFF sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oak…

ICE is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them 404media.co/ice-is-using-a…

The privacy threats of Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) continue to mount: Syracuse police "inadvertently" opted into sharing drivers' license and driving data with thousands of police departments across the country. x.com/STOPSpyingNY/s…

Over the last 39 months, a data broker harvested 1 billion flight records from commercial airline customers, and sold it to border guards and ICE. eff.org/deeplinks/2025…

“New Yorkers deserve real safety, not cartoon cop drones straight out of Looney Tunes" - Will Owen, S.T.O.P. Communications Director amny.com/police-fire/ny…

"It creates a really potent tool for law enforcement to target political activists, religious groups, immigrants, anyone seeking reproductive or gender affirming health care" - Will Owen, S.T.O.P. Communications Director centralcurrent.org/syracuse-polic…

“The idea that we're gonna spend money on a fleet of drones to disable attacks from other drones. … It feels like the NYPD is just in a paranoid bubble" - @FoxCahn gothamist.com/news/nypd-seek…

ICE's own facial recognition app "is a dystopian attack on immigrant communities that will tear families apart through the click of a camera lens." - Will Owen, S.T.O.P. Communications Director the-independent.com/news/world/ame…