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- The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is evaluating proposals from technology companies to use artificial intelligence for monitoring transit vehicles.
- The initiative would deploy more than 15,000 cameras across 472 subway stations to identify weapons and unattended items.
- Critics, including civil rights groups, warn AI could cause wrongful arrests and privacy violations.
- Wegman’s faced backlash for storing shoppers’ facial scans after a failed City Council bid to ban biometric data.
