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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, tracking equipment, 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 2022, 2021, 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 and other analytics, mass aerial surveillance, 
 ubiquitous license plate readers, 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/2023/05/18/18856134.php
SUMMARY:Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State
LOCATION:Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to 
 get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/05/18/18856134.php
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