Q&A
Potential breaches or unauthorized access to NYPD surveillance data
1:08:02
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Council Member Yusef Salaam inquires about any breaches, leaks, or unauthorized access to NYPD's surveillance data. Deputy Commissioner Michael Gerber responds to these concerns.
- Gerber states he can't definitively answer about all past breaches, as that would require input from the information technology team
- He is not personally aware of any breaches into surveillance technology systems in recent years
- Gerber acknowledges he may not be the most appropriate person to fully address this question
- The response indicates a lack of complete information about potential past breaches or unauthorized access
Yusef Salaam
1:08:02
Has the NYPD ever experienced a breach, leak, or unauthorized access to its surveillance data?
1:08:09
What safeguards exist to prevent such abuse?
Michael Gerber
1:08:13
So I'm not sure I can answer that question in terms of whether there's ever been a breach.
1:08:17
You know, that's a question that would have to go to our information technology team.
1:08:22
The folks who are here wouldn't necessarily be aware of any breach into our systems.
1:08:27
I will say to the extent you're focused on surveillance technology and that data, I'm certainly not aware over the past few years of that type of a breach.
1:08:37
But if you're asking whether that has ever happened, that's that that's hard for me to answer.
1:08:42
I'm not the right person to answer that question.
1:08:44
But I'm I'm surely not aware of that.