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Advocate: Anxiety about
data collection

Worried advocates and the public have privacy concerns
that if a comprehensive log of an individual’s specific travel
movements was made public or accessible, the privacy
of New Yorkers could be significantly compromised. In an

era of heightened surveillance, this data could be used to
negatively target certain groups or individuals.

People having no trust in the government is an underlying
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issue. According to Letitia James of New York City Public
Advocate, the move came amid anxiety over the Trump
Administration’s stances on civil liberties and the city
struggling to prevent data from being shared with the

federal government.

Other concerns: Data security,
trade secret

Data security is yet another concern, particularly after a

flaw in the data anonymisation process by NYC officials