A Brooklyn couple has filed a federal lawsuit alleging New York City uses a "voyeuristic" police surveillance system on all visitors and residents, which includes two police cameras that are aimed at the couple's bedroom and living room windows.

"You are being watched," their complaint begins. "Today, throughout New York City, the police are monitoring, tracking and cataloging you. Nearly everywhere. Nearly all the time."

Plaintiffs Pamela Wridt and Robert Sauve claim the city's Domain Awareness System collects information from video cameras, license plate readers, location trackers, biometric data, digital records and social media to map out the lives of those who live in or enter the city, regardless of whether they are suspected of any crimes.

In their lawsuit filed Monday in the Southern District of New York, the couple argue that this surveillance violates the First and Fourth Amendment rights of residents and visitors by infringing upon their privacy and deterring them from free association and expression. The suit says the Domain Awareness System has not improved public safety.

New York City officials told Law360 on Wednesday that they would review the case but did not immediately comment.

Wridt and Sauve allege the city placed New York Police Department cameras outside their home trained on their bedroom and living room windows, prompting them to cover their windows with foil and leaving them feeling unsafe and anxious in their home. The couple claim that they believe they have been subjected to heightened scrutiny because of their "activism and associations." Wridt is a children's rights advocate and Sauve is a radio DJ who has been photographed by NYPD officers at protests, the complaint says.

Created in 2008, the Domain Awareness System strings together a web of public and private data sources to create profiles of people and their "relationships, religious beliefs and political affiliations, among other things," according to the complaint. All NYPD officers have access to the extensive, personal data in the system, the complaint alleges.

The complaint cites publicly released information about the system from sources including public records and press releases.

Non-white residents are likely to be monitored more closely because the city places more facial-recognition cameras and gunshot detectors in neighborhoods with residents of racial and ethnic minorities, the lawsuit alleges. And the system's data is also linked to the city's controversial gangs database, which is the subject of a separate racial bias suit pending in the Eastern District of New York.

The plaintiffs in the current suit seek to enjoin the city from using the system in ways that violate constitutional rights. The suit also asks for an order requiring the city to expunge all records created by unconstitutional aspects of the system, delete all data from the system after 90 days and require warrants to access the information, among other remedies.

The plaintiffs are represented by O. Andrew Wilson and Sara Estela of Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP, and Albert Cahn, Anya Weinstock and Dario Maestro of Surveillance Technology Oversight Project Inc.

Counsel information for the city was not immediately available Wednesday.

The case is Pamela Wridt et al. v. City of New York, case number 1:25-cv-08903, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

--Editing by Melissa Treolo.