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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.
By Brady Hirsch
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.
By Brady Hirsch
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.
By Matthew Guariglia - Electronic Frontier Foundation
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.
By Jennifer Jones
Our Vision to Achieve True Public Safety
We can increase equality, justice, and safety without resorting to criminalization and surveillance.
By Abdi Soltani, Yasmin Cader
Recordings Show the California Highway Patrol’s Aerial Surveillance of Racial Justice Protests
Our year-long investigation uncovered records that show California Highway Patrol (CHP) spying on protesters for racial justice in cities up and down the state
By Jennifer Jones
Spies in the California Skies: New Records Expose State Police Aerial Surveillance of Racial Justice Protesters
If you were one of the thousands of people in California protesting the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the countless other Black lives taken by police violence, there’s a good chance you heard California Highway Patrol helicopters circling over your head.
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