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Tucked into Gov. Andrew Cuomo鈥檚 on his to invest in the state鈥檚 infrastructure last week was an initiative that will put New Yorkers鈥� privacy in peril.

Part of Cuomo鈥檚 plan to 鈥渞eimagine New York鈥檚 crossings for the 21st century鈥� calls for installing controversial advanced cameras, license plate readers, and facial recognition technology in New York鈥檚 airports and other transportation hubs. The plan also will install sensors and cameras at 鈥渟tructurally sensitive鈥� points on bridges and tunnels.

This is a transformative surveillance system 鈥� one that has the potential to put thousands and thousands of people's images and data in a massive database that could be easily misused by the government in ways we haven鈥檛 even imagined yet. It鈥檚 also not yet clear how the information will be stored and who will have access to it. What is clear is that there is an enormous risk that innocent people will be misidentified as terrorists, especially people of color. That鈥檚 because facial recognition technology, while certainly not error proof generally, is much more likely to misidentify minorities. A 2012 , highlighted , for example, found that a facial recognition algorithm failed to identify the right person nearly twice as often when the photo was of a Black person.

The other technologies touted by Cuomo are far from harmless as well. Just ask Robert Harte how police use of license plate readers can go awry. A SWAT team in Kansas Harte鈥檚 house where his wife, 7-year-old daughter, and 13-year-old son lived based in part on the mass monitoring of cars parked at a gardening store. Harte was held at gunpoint for two hours while cops combed through his home. The police were looking for a marijuana growing operation. They did not find that or any other evidence of criminal activity in Harte鈥檚 house.

It鈥檚 also important to understand that these technologies have a way of creeping towards ubiquity. It starts with a camera here or a license plate reader there, but soon they are everywhere. And just as important, Gov. Cuomo鈥檚 plan sets a disturbing precedent that could be followed by other states.

We are taking one step closer to the dystopian world of without any discussion of the serious privacy concerns that are implicated.