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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 and online tracking, 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 pursue lawsuits as necessary to protect our rights. We stand in 
 solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no one is illegal.\n\nCheck 
 out some of what we worked on in 2024, with links back through 
 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 we 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,  online tracking 
 and ID requirements,  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 the 
 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, and/or on Mastodon at 
 https://mastodon.social/@oaklandprivacy, and/or at Bluesky at 
 @oaklandprivacy.bsky.social\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/25/18880183.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/2025/09/25/18880183.php
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