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The California Constitutional Right to Privacy Turns 50 - Our Longtime Work to Make Rights Real
Fifty years ago a modern constitutional right to privacy was added to the state constitution. And for the last five decades, that right has helped to safeguard our homes, our families, our bodies, our thoughts, and our associations from invasion by government and corporate interests.
Berkeley Fails to Learn Surveillance Lessons Within 'Oppenheimer'
In Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer,’ there is a scene where government agents creep outside a gathering of UC Berkeley-affiliated activists to write down the license plates of those parked outside the event. Instead of learning from this history, the City of Berkeley has taken a step towards repeating it.
The Fight Against Surveillance in San Francisco
For decades, the ACLU of Northern California has fought back against discriminatory and dangerous state surveillance in San Francisco. Read a chronicle of our movement.
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors Grants Police More Surveillance Powers
By a margin of 4-7, the San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted to give the SFPD access to privately owned cameras. With the cameras, comes the power to put essentially the entire city under live surveillance indefinitely.
With Our Rights Under Attack, We Can’t Let SFPD Exploit Private Surveillance Cameras
Here in the Bay Area, we must do everything we can right now to bolster privacy protections, not build more surveillance.
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