Oakland Privacy

Non-profit industrial complex, here we come.

Seriously, we are pleased to announce that after 12 years as an anarchist collective, Oakland Privacy has finally taken the plunge into 501c3 status. Our Tax ID# is 93-4007475.

What this means for you: You can make a *tax-deductible* donation to Oakland Privacy. If you happen to be a foundation, you can give us a grant.

What this means for us: We have more paperwork to do. We do not anticipate any major changes to our operations. Our core group is now a board of directors and we formally adjourn our semi-annual board meetings. But we intend to operate collectively, as always, and function as a volunteer group, as always.

On to the brave new world …

Oakland Privacy is pleased to annouce that Saoirse Grace has been selected as the 2024-2025 Privacy Rights Fellow. The fellowship is a part-time advocacy and organizing position generously funded by the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment.

Here is a bit about Saoirse: Please join us in welcoming her to Oakland Privacy!

Saoirse Grace is a transsexual Oakland-based researcher who applies postmodern and postcolonial theory to questions of gender, surveillance, itinerancy, homelessness, privacy, and art. She graduated Magna cum Laude from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 2016 and has written about critical legal theory, critical race theory, immigration law reform, the GDPR, and the application of Constitutional law to cutting-edge technology and its uses by state actors and private enterprise. She has extensive experience with the Freedom of Information Act, the California Public Records Act, and has published an exhaustive analysis of the Third Amendment’s applicability to Section 215 of the Patriot Act.

Saoirse has been involved in progressive organizing in the Bay Area since she moved here in 2013. She is an excellent bicycle mechanic, an award-winning experimental filmmaker, the former voice of Berkeley Bowl on X, and an avid Formula 1 fan (the cars, not the races).