Q&A
Council Member Brewer questions data retention and sharing policies
3:40:31
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Council Member Gale Brewer inquires about data retention and sharing policies related to surveillance technologies used by the NYPD. Ivey Dyson from the Brennan Center responds, highlighting the need for more specific internal policies on intergovernmental data sharing.
- Brewer emphasizes the importance of data management and retention policies
- Dyson suggests that the NYPD should be required to create and disclose specific policies on data sharing with other government agencies
- Brewer confirms that such policies are not currently in place
Gale Brewer
3:40:31
Leo, thank you for for the I'm sorry.
3:40:34
I didn't get your name at the Brennan Center.
3:40:35
I am a big fan of the Brennan Center.
3:40:38
My question is the data, this constant refrain that I have.
3:40:44
But are you looking at something that would say what should happen to data?
3:40:49
In other words, we all hear thirty days, but then we heard also from your colleagues that it's not clear if there's a case, what happens to that data afterwards.
3:40:58
And data to me is everything.
3:41:00
So I just didn't know if that's something that Brennan has looked at.
Ivey Dyson
3:41:03
Right.
3:41:04
I think something that we have talked to the NYPD about in negotiating potential language on amendments to the post act, an addition would be to have the NYPD have internal policies in place, like quite specific policies in place about their intergovernmental data sharing.
3:41:23
Again because as you say, know, there's this massive amounts of information data that is being collected by these surveillance technologies and so you know as far as we are aware, we don't know what those policies are.
3:41:35
The idea is that the NYPD would then be forced to create policies on their data sharing with other government agencies and then that information could then be used to help them provide like more fulsome reporting under the post act related to their gathering and sharing of data with external entities.
Gale Brewer
3:41:54
So you feel at this point that that has not been done, that kind of scenario that you have outlined?
Ivey Dyson
3:41:59
Yes.
3:42:00
Correct.
Gale Brewer
3:42:00
Okay.
3:42:01
Thank you.
3:42:01
And I know your client, so he was he's terrific, by the way.
3:42:04
Thank you.