Oakland Privacy, the Bay Area’s anti-surveillance coalition, has put up a new website at ChromePrivacy.org to call on Google to add a global opt-out signal to the world’s most used web browser, Chrome. Years into California’s effort to give people…
Author: Tracy Rosenberg
National Campaign To End Shotspotter
Privacy and criminal justice activists across the country are focusing on gun detection software, and specifically lead vendor, Shotspotter, after the company’s forensic reports threw two innocent men in jail and drew cops into a fatal encounter with 13 year…
SPJ Madison Award for Oakland Public Records Lawsuit
The Northern California chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists has given out their annual James Madison Award in the Advocacy category to the legal team that filed a class action suit against the Oakland Police Department over thousands of…
Legislative Proposal Seeks to Sanction Federal and Out of State ALPR Sharing
Update: AB 2192 was held in the Assembly Privacy committee and is dead. Oakland Privacy and the Electronic Frontier Foundation provided witness testimony on the bill in both the Assembly Transportation and Assembly Privacy committees. A bill proposed by Assembly…
When A Law Is Your Life: An Oakland Privacy Story
Assembly Bill 229 became law on January 1, 2022. The new law, which requires use of force training for private security guards and employees of alarm companies, was one of two dozen or so bills that Oakland Privacy supported in…
SF Mayor Breed Attacks San Francisco Surveillance Transparency Ordinance
In a woefully inaccurate news release issued at 5pm on January 18, 2022, the mayor of San Francisco London Breed, describes San Francisco’s surveillance ordinance as an “obstacle” to law enforcement and declares an intention to modify it, by ballot…
FBI Will Neither Confirm or Deny the Existence of the Documents I Just Printed
This headline, from reporter Dell Cameron in a Gizmodo article about a federal lawsuit filed by the ACLU against the FBI, highlights the public records work of Oakland Privacy’s Mike Katz-Lacabe. Here are 26 of them, compiled by Mike Katz-Lacabe at…
San Mateo County Ends ICE Transfers
After a lengthy Truth Act Forum on November 3, San Mateo County Sheriff Carlos Bolanos announced that San Mateo County will no longer respond to notification requests from ICE. In a statement, Bolanos said “It simply is not worth losing…
Public Records Class Action Lawsuit Against Oakland Police Department Settled
A class action lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department for outstanding public records, filed by 3 free-lance journalists (Scott Morris, Sarah Belle Lin, Brian Krans) and Oakland Privacy has settled. The City of Oakland agreed to release all outstanding public…
Help Us Welcome 2022 Privacy Rights Fellow Yadi Younse.
Oakland Privacy is thrilled to announce that Yadi Younse will be our 2022 Privacy Rights Fellow, a new part-time special projects position that has generously been funded by the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment. We had a dozen…