Some of the things Oakland Privacy had a hand in in 2020: Deeply involved in the successful effort to get Santa Cruz to pass a facial recognition and predictive policing ban. Initiated and concluded a successful lawsuit against Vallejo re:…
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Oakland Public Safety Committee Debates JTTF Withdrawal
Update: Oakland terminated its MOU with the JTTF task force on 10-20-20. On October 13 at 2:3opm, Oakland’s Public Safety committee will debate a measure from City Council chair Rebecca Kaplan to withdraw the Oakland Police Department from the Joint…
PVE Funding Cut From State Budget
The #NoPVEinCalifornia coalition was successful in persuading the CA State Legislature to remove funding to staff the Preventing Violent Extremism program (renamed as Creating Safer Communities). The state program, modeled after the federal Countering Violent Extremism, doles out grants to…
Oakland Privacy’s Year in Bullet Points
Some of the things Oakland Privacy had a hand in in 2019… Urban Shield – Dead. San Francisco enacts a surveillance equipment regulation ordinance (SERO) and facial recognition ban. Oakland and Berkeley pass facial recognition bans. Oakland rejects new Bearcat…
Oakland Privacy – 2019 Pioneer Award
On September 12, 2019, Oakland Privacy will be honored at the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Awards Ceremony for our surveillance activism. Press Release – EFF Press Release – Oakland Privacy
RIP East Bay Express
January 11 brought the sad news that East Bay alternative weekly the East Bay Express, which had been under financial duress for a while, would be laying off its entire editorial staff and greatly reducing operations. The newspaper’s demise as…
The Council on American-Islamic Relations Gave Oakland Privacy an Award
With over 1,000 attendees, the CAIR-SFBA Banquet is the largest annual gala for the Muslim community in the Bay Area. And we got not one, but two, “Certificates of Special Congressional Recognition” to boot. Now, if only Congress would actually…
Protecting Civil Rights Award
Oakland Privacy is honored to receive a Protecting Civil Rights award from the San Francisco Bay chapter of the Council on Islamic-American Relations (CAIR). The award ceremony will be held at CAIR-Bay Area’s 24th Annual Banquet on October 27th at…
Stare Into The Lights My Pretties
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…
Podcast Interview On Location Smart
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.