Q&A
Concerns about enforcement of NYC privacy laws and the One City Act
2:39:13
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Council Member Gutiérrez asks about the effectiveness of current New York City privacy laws in protecting data privacy. Cynthia Conti-Cook responds, expressing concerns about enforcement and potential undermining of privacy protections.
- Lack of clear enforcement of existing privacy laws
- Concerns about the administration's adherence to privacy restrictions in rolling out MyCity and the digital wallet
- Discussion of the One City Act and its implications for data sharing
- Worries about potential misuse of data for policing purposes and enforcing non-criminal violations
Jennifer Gutiérrez
2:39:13
In your opinion, do you think that the current New York City privacy law is doing enough to protect our our our data in our data privacy?
2:39:24
Excuse me.
Cynthia Conti-Cook
2:39:29
It's not clear that that it's being enforced.
2:39:33
I think that there's an actually pretty comprehensive identifying information protection in New York City.
2:39:40
It's not clear that there's a administration is respecting or or adhering to its restrictions or adhering to the principles under it as it is rolling out my city and the digital wallet as well.
2:40:00
I would also just mention that this administration has gone to Albany to fight for the 1 city act, which is a bill that would permit for cities over 1,000,000, pretty broad data sharing permissions, and that bill itself actually contemplates a police use case for the purposes of being able to police the subways.
2:40:22
And so it's clear that the care coordination and inner agency Data sharing that's being contemplated by this administration is specifically being contemplated not just for the purposes of using force to remove people from the subways and voluntarily hospitalizing people, but it's also being contemplated as the administration tries to spread out the NYPD through other city agencies to also enforce non criminal violations, including city rules and regulations.
2:40:53
And so we have very series concerns about the One City Act as well and what it would actually how it would actually undermine New York City's otherwise very clear identifying information protections.
