Some of the things Oakland Privacy had a hand in in 2023: 2022 2021 2020 2019
Author: JP Massar
The Pursuit of Folly: ALPRs as a Technological Non-Solution to Crime.
The Berkeley City Council is scheduled to vote on July 25th to install hundreds of thousands of dollars of Automated License Plate Reader equipment (ALPRs) across Berkeley, in the hope of deterring auto thefts and violent crime. The proposal specifies…
Oakland Privacy’s Year in Bullet Points – 2022
Some of the things Oakland Privacy had a hand in in 2022: 2021 2020 2019
Oakland Privacy Privacy Rights Fellowship 2022-2023 – Applications Open
Oakland Privacy, founded in 2013, is an activist group devoted to fighting against both government and corporate surveillance and in defense of privacy rights and government transparency. We concentrate on state, regional and local matters, while advocating with other like-minded…
Oakland Privacy’s Year in Bullet Points – 2021
Some of the things Oakland Privacy had a hand in in 2021: Received the James Madison Freedom of Information Award. Passage of Oakland’s and Berkeley’s Militarized Equipment Regulation Ordinances. Creation of the BadApple toolkit for police accountability. Castro neighborhood in…
Oakland Privacy’s Year in Bullet Points – 2020
Some of the things Oakland Privacy had a hand in in 2020: Deeply involved in the successful effort to get Santa Cruz to pass a facial recognition and predictive policing ban. Initiated and concluded a successful lawsuit against Vallejo re:…
Oakland Privacy’s Year in Bullet Points
Some of the things Oakland Privacy had a hand in in 2019… Urban Shield – Dead. San Francisco enacts a surveillance equipment regulation ordinance (SERO) and facial recognition ban. Oakland and Berkeley pass facial recognition bans. Oakland rejects new Bearcat…
Legal Tender for All Debts, Public and Private.
We know very well that if trends continue, we will have no privacy left. Moving towards a cashless society means every purchase we make can and will be tracked, analyzed and stored. Driverless cars will insure – if ALPRs and…
A Short History of Urban Shield.
On March 14th, 2019, the Bay Area Urban Areas Security Initiative Approval Authority voted unanimously to take the monies for Urban Shield and other emergency preparedness programs usually distributed to Alameda County and redistribute them around the Bay Area, to…
Sheriff Ahern Goes All In on Urban Shield. And Is Called.
When you go all in, you generally don’t want to be called if you are unsure of the outcome. It could have been a scene from a poker movie. Instead, it was real life drama played for $5M stakes at…