More reforms will come in April, when delivery workers will then be able to control how far they are willing to travel, the details of routes and addresses before accepting a delivery order, and the right to be paid weekly without a processing fee. The city will now require that restaurants provide the delivery workers with better access to restrooms. By January 24th, licensed apps that take customer orders directly will be required to notify delivery workers how much each customer tips for each delivery, and the total pay and tips for the previous day.
Starting next month, delivery apps must be licensed by the city to operate in the five boroughs. The challenge being that such oversight should start with the House of Representatives and the Senate – many of whose members don’t appear to have much understanding about technology.This holiday weekend, as many New Yorkers once again hunker down at home during the latest surge of Covid cases, the city’s intense reliance on delivery apps for essential goods is highlighting advocates’ call for better protections for the delivery workers who have toiled without a safety net.Ī slate of city laws for delivery workers is set to kick in the new year and will roll out in stages, commencing in January with more oversight of the delivery apps and increased transparency for the more than 65,000 delivery workers in New York City. It’s certainly an area that needs close scrutiny. They allow a police officer to skip the warrant process and act as judges themselves.Īdditionally, even official departmental use of such apps often appears to be in contravention of constitutional rights to privacy, argues the piece.Īpps for face recognition have been found to be racially biased, with a greater likelihood of wrongly identifying Black people, leading to higher instances of false arrest. The reason officers use these systems is because they make their jobs much easier.
Cops are often offered these systems directly from the vendors as “trials” so they can try them before they decide whether to ask their departments to adopt them at scale. And it’s as easy to use as Netflix or Spotify.īest of all, at least for the corrupt cops using these systems unethically, there’s absolutely no oversight whatsoever. They have access to your medical and mental health records, military service history, court records, legal records, travel history, and your property records. So, without a warrant, officer Friendly now has access to your phone carrier, ISP, and email records. The cop then runs the identity through an app from a company such as Palantir, which surfaces a cornucopia of information on the individual. This allows them to take a picture of anyone and surface their identity.
TNW’s headline doesn’t pull any punches: Lying, corrupt, anti-American cops are running amok with AI.Īny cop, regardless of affiliation or status, has access to dozens (if not hundreds) of third-party AI systems an Android or iPhone app that officers and agents can use without their supervisors even knowing.Ī cop installs software from a company such as Clearview AI on their personal smartphone. This approach means there is no oversight to ensure civil rights are protected …
The report says that companies aiming to sell these apps to police departments are first offering them to individual cops, hoping that this will then create the demand for official purchases. Hundreds of thousands of police officers are unofficially using apps for face recognition, and gaining access to a wide range of databases, from credit checks to medical records, according to a new report today.