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City To Renew Rikers Phone Deal Amid AI Surveillance Concerns

People wait in line to visit loved ones detained on Rikers Island.

The city’s Correction Department is set to renew a multimillion-dollar contract with a prison telecom giant that’s bragged of using recordings of detainees’ private phone calls to train its artificial intelligence model.   The Mamdani administration plans to pay Securus Technologies up to $23 million over five years for phone service used by roughly 7,000 people […]

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