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…
Reported by Jennifer Wadsworth at San Jose Inside “Given my work and knowing the company’s role in law enforcement and surveillance, I can say they’re a bit of a creepy choice,” says Mike Katz-Lacabe, who founded the Center for Human Rights…
On Thursday, BART police will propose a system-wide security dragnet for the Bay Area’s transit system. BART police are asking the board to approve the project in concept and authorize trials at Lake Merritt and Civic Center BART stations.…
Reprinted from Center for Human Rights and Privacy Many protesters observed the use of multiple drones at the West Contra Costa County Detention Center on June 30, 2018, during a protest against ICE and its practice of family…
114 civil and human rights groups, including Oakland Privacy, joined together to urge that pre-trial detention including risk assessment or predictive software and electronic shackles, be used as infrequently as possible. Pretrial “risk assessment” instruments – although they may seem…
Two dozen civil rights and liberties groups rose above party-based partisanship to insist Congressional Democrats including Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, John Warner and Adam Schiff stop trying to weaken congressional oversight of intelligence agencies.