AGENCY TESTIMONY
Findings on DigiDog and other surveillance technologies from 2023 report
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Commissioner Strauber details the findings from the 2023 report regarding DigiDog and other surveillance technologies. The report concluded that NYPD's approach to IUPs for these technologies did not fully meet POST Act requirements.
- DigiDog should have had its own IUP due to distinct capabilities
- K5, StarChase, IDEMIA, and AR application were addressed in addenda, but information was incomplete
- Issues included lack of health and safety information, inadequate disclosure of specialized rules, and insufficient data retention and access policies
Jocelyn Strauber
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With respect to DigiDog, OIGNYPD maintained, as it did in the first annual postdoc report, that DigiDog was a surveillance technology with distinct capabilities and therefore NYPD should have issued an IUP specific to DigiDog when the technology was initially deployed in 2021.
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Instead, NYPD asserted that DigiDog was sufficiently addressed by the IUP for situational awareness cameras.
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We also concluded that the DigiDogs purchased and deployed in 2023 had enhanced capabilities that at a minimum should have been addressed in an addendum to the situational awareness camera IUP.
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OIGNYPD further found that the department appropriately treated k five, Starchase, IDEMIA, and the r and the AR application as enhancements to or new uses of existing surveillance technologies and therefore issued addenda for each of those technologies.
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However, we concluded that taking to taken together, the IUP and the addenda did not meet the post acts requirements in the following ways.
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First, the situational awareness camera IUP and its addenda did not disclose health and safety information with respect to k five, the autonomous security robot.
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Second, we concluded that the GPS tracking devices IUP and its addenda did not adequately disclose the specialized rules, processes, and guidelines that distinguish StarChase technology from other GPS tracking technologies.
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The addenda also did not adequately disclose health and safety information or the type of data that the NYPD may disclose to external entities.
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Third, the two IUPs relevant to the IDEMIA application and their addenda did not provide sufficient information about IDEMIA with respect to the policies and procedures related to data retention and access.
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And finally, the portable electronic devices IUP and its addenda did not provide sufficient information about the AR application regarding policies and procedures related to data retention and access.