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DESCRIPTION:\nJoin 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, 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/2026/06/11/18886727.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/2026/06/11/18886727.php
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