The 2023 legislative season in CA’s state capital has come to a close. Oakland Privacy intervened on your behalf on over 65 bills (a world record), piping up in support, opposition or demanding changes. Our final batting average in sign/veto…
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…
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…