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With DAC Vote, Oakland Shows How Surveillance Reform Begins at Home
Last week wasn’t just a big one for NSA reform – it also found one of California’s largest cities rolling back warrantless surveillance by local law enforcement. With a unanimous vote, the Oakland City Council adopted a privacy policy for its port-centered surveillance project known as the Domain Awareness Center (DAC) and created a new committee to address citywide surveillance reform, including a potential surveillance ordinance. Oakland’s move represents a sea change in how California communities address surveillance practices that all too often target low-income and people of color. We encourage other communities to follow suit.
Victory! California Senate Tells Cops to Get a Warrant
The California Senate on June 3, 2015 took a powerful stand for privacy, voting overwhelmingly to approve the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA).
A Plug-and-Play Model Policy for Police Body Cameras
A growing chorus of elected officials, law enforcement, and community leaders settled on an answer to the senseless deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of law enforcement: body cameras. And one in four police agencies have already started using them.
VICTORY! Santa Clara County Abandons Plans to Purchase a Stingray
We just learned that Santa Clara County will not be moving forward to purchase an invasive Stingray mobile tracking system.
Smart Devices Make Everything Easier – Like Spying On Users
We live in a world where everyday devices collect and transmit data, but consumer privacy awareness is only beginning to come into focus for the Internet of Things.
Get a Warrant! Senate Committee Approves E-Privacy Bill
Today the California Senate’s Committee on Public Safety approved the CA Electronic Privacy Act. CalECPA would require police to get a warrant before searching devices or digital data.
Police Shouldn't Engage in Indiscriminate Secret Cell Phone Surveillance
The ACLU filed lawsuits against two CA law enforcement agencies. The people deserve to know if these agencies are using StingRays without appropriate judicial authorization.
Feds Refuse to Release Documents on 'Zero-Day' Security Exploits
Federal agencies served with a Freedom of Information Act request are refusing to release documents related to their purchase, use and disclosure of zero-day exploits, keeping the American public in the dark about a practice that leaves the Internet and its users less secure.
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