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DESCRIPTION:Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police 
 militarization and ICE, and to advocate for privacy, surveillance 
 regulation of both corporations and the state, and government transparency, 
 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 in 2018 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 street surveillance, and fighting 
 to ensure local governments adhere to State privacy and transparency 
 regulations.\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 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/12/14/18861099.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/2023/12/14/18861099.php
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