No NYPD spying deal with Cognyte.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's NYPD is poised to sign a three-year, $750,500 no-bid contract with Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte for FalcoNet — an AI-powered fake cell tower that can track phones.
It can be mounted on police cars and drones, or hidden in a backpack.
Mass surveillance is not public safety. Sign below and demand this deal be cancelled now.
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Why this matters
- Cognyte won a tender to sell intercept spyware to Myanmar's state telecom weeks before the 2021 military coup.
- Meta banned the firm in 2021, saying its customers used fake accounts to target journalists and politicians.
- The company is part of an Israeli surveillance industry built on millions of intercepted Palestinian phone calls.
- Secretive, no-bid surveillance contracts undermine democracy, civil rights, and public trust.
Sources: New York Daily News · Drop Site News