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…
Welcome to the Bay Area’s fifth local surveillance transparency ordinance in the City of Palo Alto, which approved their ordinance on an 8-1 City Council vote on the evening of September 20. The heart of Silicon Valley began this…
UC Berkeley’s Center for Technology, Society & Policy made this video about their collaboration project with Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission where they modeled a research project in tracking the footprint of police-collected data using the CRIMs database.
CA Governor Jerry Brown will soon be in possession of two law enforcement transparency bills that faced huge odds getting to his desk, AB 748 and SB 1421
A recent panel at the DEFCON conference covered the expansive use of software in criminal justice and how adverserial testing can unlock the flaws, failures, gaps and biases that can mean the difference between life and death and freedom…