Some of the things Oakland Privacy had a hand in in 2022:
- San Francisco’s Surveillance Ordinance survives an attempt to kill it by Mayor Breed.
- Vallejo Surveillance Advisory Board begins meeting.
- Our lawyers receive the James Madison award for a successful public records lawsuit against OPD.
- Began a national campaign to put privacy protections into the Chrome Browser.
- Almost all surveillance and anti-privacy legislation in the California Legislature is killed or usefully modified, including
- AB 2192 killed, which would have allowed sharing of ALPR data with out-of-state agencies.
- Digital License Plates modified to prevent GPS inclusion.
- Created a guide to California Public Records requests.
- Obtained and analyzed public records information about a massive Contra Costa freeway surveillance program suggesting that it had done nothing to reduce freeway shooting incidents.
- Berkeley concedes that street surveillance cameras fall under the Berkeley Surveillance Ordinance, after Oakland Privacy files a lawsuit and much back and forth.
- Berkeley puts in place a 14-day retention period for its ALPR program – one of, if not the shortest retention duration in California.
- Oakland puts in place a 6-month retention period (down from two years) and much improved civil liberties protections for its ALPR program.
- San Francisco’s “killer robots” policy is stopped and sent back to committee after national publicity embarrasses the Board of Supervisors.