VPN? Encryption? Tor Browser? Geolocation? Secure? Insecure? Data Breach? What does it ALL MEAN? If you’ve ever tried to understand how to protect your information online and felt completely overwhelmed—you’re not alone. It feels like everyone’s talking in code: VPNs,…
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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.
On The Corner Of 2nd And 4th
by Admin I’d like to tell you that my heart broke when I heard about the Parkland shooting in February. But how many times can the heart break? Considering how frequently mass shootings occur in the US, it’s hard to…
2017 Year In Review
By Brian Hofer Dear members and allies of Oakland Privacy: 2017 has been both a remarkable and frustrating year. While the raging dumpster fire that is our national political discourse seems to get worse by the day, Oakland Privacy and…