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Posted inFAQ NYC
LISTEN: Do Congestion Pricing Cameras Breed ‘Ghost’ Cars?
Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project joins hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel to dig into the problems with automated enforcement, the perils in letting police collect too much data, and more. Subscribe to the FAQ NYC podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever podcasts are found.
Posted inMTA
MTA Seeking to Expand Service — Into the Lucrative Metaverse
The cash-strapped agency hopes to protect and make money from its iconic brand in video games and virtual reality.
Posted inTechnology
Bronx District Attorney Expanding Phone-Cracking Technology
The pending purchase is another rock in a landslide of concerns about privacy, surveillance and law enforcement.
Posted inSubway
Why Blue Lights Are Appearing at Some Subway Stations
The MTA is testing a technology, already in place in other transit systems, that’s been shown to deter suicide attempts.
Posted inFAQ NYC
LISTEN: Digidogs Unleashed In ‘Fear City’
The GOP is swinging wildly at the Manhattan DA, the NYPD is sending in the bots, again, and much more from another jam-packed week in New York City. Subscribe to FAQ NYC on Apple, Spotify, or pretty much everywhere podcasts are found.
Posted in311
Raccoons Eating Lasagna, Ghosts in the Window: The Wildest 311 Calls of Last 20 Years
New York City’s municipal information hotline fields questions and reports on items from the mundane, like illegal parking, to the bizarre, including a few calls about dog dependents, aliens and ghosts.
Posted inMTA
Yellow Signals: MTA Looking Into Pee-Smelling Tech for Elevators
The transit agency would be following the lead of systems in cities like Boston and Atlanta, which have installed devices to detect urine and alert cleaning crews.
Posted inWork
NYC Tech Industry Booms but Diversity of Employees and Locations Remains Elusive, Study Finds
Last year 369,000 people worked in tech jobs after a decade of fast growth. But following the meltdown of the Amazon Queens deal, nearly all those jobs are in Manhattan or Brooklyn.
Posted inTechnology
City Jails Move to Digitize Mail, Which Led Other Lockups Into Legal Fights
Apart from the obvious privacy and intimacy issues that come with reading everyone’s letters and turning them into emails, experts note that similar efforts in other states haven’t reduced contraband.