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Albert Cahn

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Albert Fox Cahn is the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project’s ( S.T.O.P.’s) founder and executive director, and he is also a fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, Ashoka, N.Y.U Law School’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, and the Day One Project. As a lawyer, technologist, writer, and interfaith activist, Mr. Cahn began S.T.O.P. in the belief that emerging surveillance technologies pose an unprecedented threat to civil rights and the promise of a free society.

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  • Even though the NYPD claims facial recognition is only used for serious crimes, the numbers tell a different story. As facial recognition continues to grow, it's being routinely deployed for everything from shoplifting to graffiti.

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