More than 100 civil and human rights organizations, including Oakland Privacy, wrote to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to demand a vote on the Save The Internet Act, a bill which would restore Open Internet protections and passed the House…
Author: Tracy Rosenberg
Alameda County Facial Recognition
You never know what you’re going to find at a convention. At the 2019 IACP technology convention (International Association of Chiefs of Police), Electronic Frontier Foundation researcher Dave Maass found a facial recognition brochure from San Jose-based Vintra.io, which tagged…
Palantir Should Not Sponsor Privacy Conference at Berkeley
Update: Privacy Law Scholars Conference drops Palantir as a sponsor. Update: A week after Oakland Privacy sent our letter, Mijente started a petition to Berkeley Law School. The petition is here. Update: The Privacy Law Scholars Conference and Berkeley Law…
No PVE in California
A 70-strong coalition of social justice and civil rights groups led by M-Power Change, Asian-Americans Advancing Justice and CAIR California (including Oakland Privacy). sent a letter to CA Governor Gavin Newson asking him to end the reinstatement of a washed-over…
San Francisco Approves Oversight of Surveillance Tech and Becomes 1st in the Country to Ban Use of Facial Recognition.
At the May 14 meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the City of SF became the 10th jurisdiction in the country to adopt a comprehensive oversight protocol for the acquisition and use of surveillance tech. The 8-1 vote…
Reining in License Plate Readers
The use of automated license plate readers by law enforcement agencies has become ubiquitous over the last decade. It is probably the most extensive mass surveillance program in the United States. The terrabytes of car images, of whch 99.5% or…
City of Oakland Privacy Principles
UC Berkeley’s legal clinic has worked with numerous stakeholders to prepare a privacy principles document and implementation guide for the City of Oakland. Here are the final drafts of both documents.
BART Proposes License Plate Readers At All Parking Lots
Stop Secret Surveillance SF Act
San Francisco’s surveillance transparency ordinance with a twist (a ban on municipal use of facial recognition software) took a giant step today towards…
Using Criminal Databases On Observers: Urban Shield and CLETS
On April 12, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Media Alliance filed a request for investigation into possible misuse of the CLETS database and a request that the agency cease all similar background checks on journalists and advocates engaged in oversight…