...I've Been Watching You Watching Me
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It's a questionable practice for healthcare facilities to share surveillance data with law enforcement prior to the start of any investigation |
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| Oakland Privacy has discovered that Kaiser Permanente parking lots throughout California contain automated license plate readers with motion detection cameras, and that the scans taken by these cameras are proactively shared with local law enforcement. Kaiser appears to be violating state law by operating license plate readers without public use policies. Read more. |
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Oakland Privacy is saddened by the loss of Palestinian and Israeli lives and joins the call of civil society for a ceasefire now and a long-term solution that provides full civil and human rights for the currently stateless people of Palestine. |
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| BATEP Counter-Terrorism Training Federal counter-terrorism collaborations with local police have taken many forms over the years, including the notorious and now discontinued Urban Shield training program. An Oakland Privacy volunteer attended a workshop of a successor program dubbed "BATEP" and shared their thoughts about the evolution of these programs. Read more |
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San Leandro Delays Expansion of ALPR Program Nowadays, it is pretty rare for a city or county not to go ahead with a proposed license plate reader deployment. But in San Leandro, it happened with a 4-3 vote not to double the amount of plate readers in town. Watch our clips from the council discussion and vote. Read more |
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ALCO Arsenal Soon, the ALCO Board of Supervisors will debate and vote on use policies for the county's large arsenal of military-style equipment. High on the agenda, a mysterious and unpublicized change to the drone use policy in 2021 which wiped protections put in place in 2014. In 2021, the policy was quietly altered to allow *any* use if approved by the sheriff. Also up for discussion, the use of dangerous scattershot munitions in Santa Rita Jail. Keep an eye out for an action alert and join us online or in person at 1221 Oak. Read more |
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Time To Ditch Chrome Despite petitions and requests for meetings, Google/Alphabet has gone ahead with their disastrous Privacy Sandbox, which replaces third party cookies with an equally grotesque topics collection to power behavioral advertising. It's terrible. And it's time to give Chrome the heave-ho. The world's biggest browser may be fast, but it is a privacy disaster. Friends don't let friends use Chrome. Not any more. Read more
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The Threats of London Breed We hate politics. Vulnerable SF mayor London Breed, facing a likely dificult re-election campaign, is once again taking aim at SF's surveillance ordinance with a proposed ballot initiative to give the cops a one year runway with any surveillance tech, including drones and killer robots. Stay tuned for how you can help to beat back this reactionary initiative. Read more |
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Shotspotter Across The Nation In September 2023, anti-surveillance activists from across the country (Chicago, Portland, and Northern and Southern California) came together to discuss gunshot detection and leading manufacturer Shotspotter (now known as “SoundThinking”) You can watch the coversation here. |
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2023 State Legislation In 2023, Oakland Privacy was able to intervene on your behalf on dozens of bills related to surveillance, transparency and privacy. The upshot: 14 new good laws, 12 very bad bills stopped, 2 bills changed from bad to neutral and 4 things we wish didn't happen the way they did. Read more |
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There They Go Again: Pasadena Stingray Since no one ever learns anything, the City of Pasadena tried to buy a cell site simulator without a use policy in place. This is the same mistake Vallejo tried and it cost them when OP sued them and won.
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Current Volunteer opportunities include: Fusion Center PRA Project: Help fulfill pending public records requests and analyze data. Read more AMEMSA Justice Collective - Help middle eastern and south asian communities fight exploitative federal task forces. Read more AI Policy - Help OP weigh in on varied artificial intelligence regulatory processes and legislative policy work. Reach us at [email protected] if you'd like to help out! |
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| This note was sent to you by the folks at Oakland Privacy. Oakland Privacy has been fighting for transparency in law enforcement surveillance operations since 2013.
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