Comment from CA Assembly Public Safety Chair Reginald Jones-Sawyer speaks about statewide surveillance transparency and its importance at a June 19 committee hearing in Sacramento. Click to listen to a 2 minute snippet.
By Admin By now, many of us have read the gut-wrenching reports of ICE agents separating immigrant families at the border, including children from their mothers. While this story won’t be my focus, it provides us with yet more confirmation…
by Christina Rosalita “Policy after Procurement” has been, until recently, the unofficial non policy of blatantly experimenting until there is dissent or surreptitiously monitoring and using excuses as needed to justify. This approach is not in keeping with the promise…
According to data from the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC), the city of Fremont collected 14.5 million license plates and photos from license plate readers located throughout the city from December 2016 to October 2017. The installation of stationary license plate…
On the day the FCC order ending net neutrality rules goes into effect, some of the country’s largest netroots group are launching an effort urging representatives to force a floor vote to save net neutrality FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 11,…
On June 5, 2018, the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC), the Homeland Security fusion center for the Norcal region, released via a public records request the sharing report for their account in the license plate reader database LEARN-NVLS, which…
As the primary election polls were starting to close, at a bit after 9pm Pacific on June 5, the Richmond City Council completed their second and ratifying vote on the Bay Area’s first Sanctuary City contracting ordinance, by a 5-1…
35 civil rights organizations (including Oakland Privacy) joined a sign-on letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to desist from marketing facial recognition technology to the government. Public records requests reveal that the company has developed and sold a prototype product…
This Security Ledger podcast features a 15 minute interview with Robert Xiao, the Carnegie Mellon researcher who discovered the Location Smart wireless phone tracking leak.
On May 15th, the City Council of Richmond, CA voted 6-1 to enact a Sanctuary City Contracting ordinance, sponsored by Councilmembers Jovanka Beckles and Ada Recinos. The Sanctuary City ordinance (model legislation can be found here) was developed by the…