Update: AC Transit has replied to our letter and stated they will agendize a discussion of the audit for an upcoming board meeting. When AC Transit proposed adding platform cameras to Bus Rapid Transit platforms along East Oakland’s International Avenue,…
Category: Video Surveillance
Kaiser Conducting Mass Surveillance of its Members
Kaiser Permanente has been conducting mass surveillance of its members for years and is sharing that information with law enforcement. Public records requests and publicly-available information have revealed that numerous Kaiser Permanente facilities in California have installed surveillance cameras that…
The Saga of AB 1463 and Other Sacto Tales
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…
Freeway Shootings Increased After Millions Spent on Freeway Surveillance
The Freeway Security Network was established to reduce freeway shootings after a number of high profile freeway shootings on Interstate 80 and Highway 4 in 2016, with $3.5 million from the California State Transportation Agency. However the number of freeway…
Lawsuit Filed To Stop Public Camera Exemption in Berkeley
On August 22, 2022, Oakland Privacy, along with Berkeley residents Adolfo Cabral, J.P. Massar and Cindy Shamban filed a lawsuit against the City of Berkeley seeking to end the City’s decision to exempt public cameras they are deploying on major…
The Gorgon Stare Comes Home: No Spy Planes in San Francisco
Take action and speak up about the expansion of the Capital Police to a field office in San Francisco with their eye in the sky aeriel surveillance plans from the Department of Defense.
Fourth Circuit En Banc Order on Aerial Spy Planes
On June 24, an en banc panel of the Fourth Circuit of Appeals issued a ruling in Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v City of Baltimore that the aerial high definition surveillance planes flown over Baltimore were an unconstitutional violation…
Ringing Alarm Bells
A study of implicit bias in consumer surveillance device use in San Francisco Noting the rapid spread of Ring/Law Enforcement collaborative agreements in Northern California, Oakland Privacy embarked on a study of the content that device owners in San Francisco…
SF Police Sued Over Public/Private Camera Use To Surveil BLM Protests
Update 1/27/2020: On January 26, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution to a) disclose annually to the City any donations received in excess of $100 and not accept donations that are anonymous b) b) shall not use…
AC Transit Adopts BRT Camera Privacy Policy
At the September 9 meeting of the AC Transit Board of Directors, the board unanimously adopted a privacy policy for the cameras that will line the bus stops of the new rapid transit line from DT Oakland to San Leandro.…