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Council Member Vickie Paladino expresses support for facial recognition technology
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Council Member Vickie Paladino expresses strong support for allowing the use of facial recognition technology in co-ops, government buildings, and by the police force.
- She argues facial recognition is highly accurate and can prevent wrongful arrests and prosecutions
- Paladino states facial recognition should be allowed for co-op boards to identify visitors
- She raises concerns about a bill (539) related to using technology to track children
Vickie Paladino
0:58:42
If you live in a coop, and just simply ringing the bell and buzzing somebody in or they talk to you and you're still not quite sure who it is.
0:58:53
And that coop board decides that they wanna use facial recognition, then they should be allowed to use facial recognition.
0:59:01
I believe facial recognition should be in every government building that we have today, if that's required.
0:59:08
I believe our police force should be allowed to use facial recognition for the simple reason being, it's a more accurate way of asking somebody for just a description of someone.
0:59:20
It led to a lot of wrong arrests and undue prosecution.
0:59:26
I mean, there was prosecution that was done to people that were innocent.
0:59:29
Facial recognition is 100% or 99% accurate.
0:59:34
I'm curious though, I do have a concern.
0:59:38
You know, when we go to the bill that's being introduced by it's 539 As a parent, you know, they're using technology to track their kids.
0:59:48
That's a must.
0:59:51
Are there warnings on the apps that will let the people know that their location data can possibly be shared with a third party.
1:00:00
That I have a problem with.
1:00:03
Also, what is an example of a third party of a third party that data would be shared with?
1:00:11
And just to be clear, I don't agree with any of it.
1:00:14
I find it kinda creepy.
1:00:16
I wanna I I wanna know what my child is doing, but I don't want anybody else to know what my child is doing or where my child is that's my business.
1:00:27
There's also a financial question.
1:00:32
Who is going to be responsible for the financial burden put on businesses and landlords that have already invested in biometric identification data, technology, as they would be asked to remove or to replace or to adjust their current BID technologies.
1:00:50
Privately owned, anything should be allowed to do whatever they want.
1:00:55
If they wanna have facial recognition, they should be allowed to have it.
1:01:00
I voiced my opinion already, and it's a must have tool for our police department.
1:01:06
And anybody who's got a problem with that, that's really too bad.
1:01:10
Thank you.
