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DESCRIPTION:Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police 
 militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around 
 the Bay and nationwide.\n\n\nWe fight against spy drones, facial 
 recognition, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and 
 requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” 
 and “thought-crime,” --  to list just a few invasions of our privacy 
 by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what government 
 officials, employees and agencies are doing.\n\nWe draft and push for 
 privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in 
 Sacramento. We advocate in op-eds and in the streets. We stand in 
 solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no one is illegal.\n\nCheck 
 out some of what we worked on in 2020 and 2019.\n\nOakland Privacy 
 originally came together in 2013 to fight against the Domain Awareness 
 Center, Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OP was 
 instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying 
 network.  We helped fight and helped win the fight against Urban 
 Shield.\n\nOur major projects currently include local legislation to 
 regulate state surveillance (we got the strongest surveillance regulation 
 ordinance in the country passed in Oakland!), supporting and opposing state 
 legislation as appropriate, battling mass surveillance in the form of 
 facial recognition, mass aerial surveillance, and other analytics, and 
 pushing back against ICE.\n\nOn September 12th, 2019 we were presented with 
 a Barlow Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for our work, and on 
 March 16th, 2021 s James Madison Freedom of Information Award by the 
 Northern California Society of Professional Journalists.\n\nIf you are 
 interested in joining the Oakland Privacy email listserv, coming to a 
 meeting, or have questions, send an email 
 to:\n\ncontact@oaklandprivacy.org\n\n\nCheck out our 
 website: http://oaklandprivacy.org/\n\nFollow us on twitter: 
 @oaklandprivacy\n\n \n“WATCHING YOU WATCHING US”\nOakland Privacy 
 works regionally to defend the right to privacy and enhance public 
 transparency and oversight regarding the use of surveillance techniques and 
 equipment.  Oakland Privacy drove the passage of surveillance regulation 
 and transparency ordinances in Oakland and Berkeley and is kicking off new 
 processes in various municipalities around the Bay.  To help slow down the 
 encroaching police and surveillance state all over the Bay Area, join us at 
 the Omni.\n\n   \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/04/22/18841848.php
SUMMARY:Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State
LOCATION:Email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to obtain 
 Zoom meeting access info.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/04/22/18841848.php
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