Washington – Today, 34 civil rights, consumer, and privacy organizations join in releasing public interest principles for privacy legislation, because the public needs and deserves strong and comprehensive federal legislation to protect their privacy and afford meaningful redress. Irresponsible data…
New report pulls together all the extant pieces of the deportation machine and the information technology that fuels it, highlighting the roles of Amazon’s cloud storage and Palantir’s ICM and Falcon software, Forensic Logic’s Coplink data brokers Thomson Reuters…
On March 27, 2018, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution ending Urban Shield, as currently constituted, after the September 2018 expo and drills. A new Ad-Hoc task force was assembled to recommend how the County should…
New proposed rules from the National Park Service would make it substantially harder to hold rallies, demonstrations or protests in Washington and specifically on the streets and sidewalks surrounding the White House. Among the changes suggested are a prohibition on…
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…