On October 11, the Oakland Police Commission voted 5-1 to reject CPRA investigator Anthony Finnell’s investigation report and closing of the complaint filed in November of 2017 by Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission chair Brian Hofer and several co-complainants of untruthfulness…
Listen to a City Council meeting and you’ll never know what you’ll hear. Like on Tuesday September 25th, when we found out Berkeley was signing a franchise agreement for IKE Smart City kiosks. After listening to the presentation, we had…
Oakland Privacy is honored to receive a Protecting Civil Rights award from the San Francisco Bay chapter of the Council on Islamic-American Relations (CAIR). The award ceremony will be held at CAIR-Bay Area’s 24th Annual Banquet on October 27th at…
On October 16th, Berkeley’s City Council can approve the nation’s second Sanctuary Contracting Ordinance. In May of 2018, Richmond became the first city in the country to prevent municipal contracts with companies that sell data to ICE. Now it is…
In a rebuke to the state’s powerful law enforcement unions, California’s governor signed into law on September 30 two bills that will substantially increase law enforcement transparency. The first, Assembly Bill 748, authored by SF rep Phil Ting, will…
Thank you for joining us on September 23rd for Down Under Dystopia! It was wonderful to see you all. Our feature documentary Stare Into The Lights My Pretties is available freely for noncommercial use. So for those of you who…
On Tuesday September 25, activists will move from online organizing to up close and personal at the annual Dreamforce conference at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Dreamforce is the annual gathering of Salesforce developers and one of the largest tech…
Urban Shield, a SWAT exercise and weapons convention held annually with Department of Homeland Security funding and coordinated by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department, was held for the last time in its current form from September 6-10, 2018. The event…
The moment on when BART formally enacted the sixth surveillance transparency ordinance in California, the ninth in the country and the first by a transit district. The Bay Area’s sixth surveillance transparency ordinance was voted in unanimously by…
At the same time the BART Board of Directors was creating a Sanctuary Transit policy, the mass transit system was sending 57,000 license plate scans from devices installed at the MacArthur BART station to the Department of Homeland Security’s…