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SF Supervisors, Despite Opposition from Civil Rights Groups, Approve SF Police Use of Thousands of ‘Spy’ Cameras

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|Date: September 21, 2022
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SF Supervisors, Despite Opposition from Civil Rights Groups, Approve SF Police Use of Thousands of ‘Spy’ Cameras

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The San Francisco Board of Supervisors late Tuesday voted 7-4 t ...

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The San Francisco Board of Supervisors late Tuesday voted 7-4 to allow the SF Police Dept. to use thousands of privately-owned cameras for broad live surveill ...

September 21, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Stop-and-Fingerprint Can’t Become the Next Stop-and-Frisk

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|Date: November 14, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Stop-and-Fingerprint Can’t Become the Next Stop-and-Frisk

The Michigan Supreme Court hears arguments in an ACLU appeal challenging unconstitutional fingerprinting ...

The Michigan Supreme Court hears arguments in an ACLU appeal challenging unconstitutional fingerprinting by police on the street. By Dan Korobkin Two cases being heard today by the Michigan Supreme Co ...

November 14, 2021
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PA Voters, ACLU Fight Back State Senate Republicans’ Subpoena to Obtain Private Information

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|Date: October 10, 2021
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PA Voters, ACLU Fight Back State Senate Republicans’ Subpoena to Obtain Private Information

By Julia Urquizo HARRISBURG, PA – Pennsylvania state Senate Republicans have filed a subpoena to access r ...

By Julia Urquizo HARRISBURG, PA – Pennsylvania state Senate Republicans have filed a subpoena to access registered voters’ private information - the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee speci ...

October 10, 2021
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Guest Commentary: That Meal May Cost You Your Privacy and Security

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|Date: August 10, 2021
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Guest Commentary: That Meal May Cost You Your Privacy and Security

By Nicole A. Ozer and Jay Stanley If you’ve been to a restaurant lately and scanned a QR code rather than ...

By Nicole A. Ozer and Jay Stanley If you’ve been to a restaurant lately and scanned a QR code rather than order from a physical menu, you likely paid for that meal with not just your money, but your p ...

August 10, 2021
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San Francisco Anti-Police Violence Activists Sue City Police for Illegal Surveillance

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|Date: October 10, 2020
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San Francisco Anti-Police Violence Activists Sue City Police for Illegal Surveillance

By Jose Medina SAN FRANCISCO – Activists face constant threats to their movements, and to themselves—anti ...

By Jose Medina SAN FRANCISCO – Activists face constant threats to their movements, and to themselves—anti-racist movements not only have to contend with systemic racism, but also with the infringement ...

October 10, 2020
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Baltimore PD’s Surveillance System Records 300 Hours of Secret Footage

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|Date: April 10, 2020
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Baltimore PD’s Surveillance System Records 300 Hours of Secret Footage

By Shellsea Lomeli BALTIMORE - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against the ...

By Shellsea Lomeli BALTIMORE - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), arguing that the department’s new Aerial Investigation Resea ...

April 10, 2020
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Letter: Opposition to Surveillance Cameras

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|Date: March 13, 2020
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Letter: Opposition to Surveillance Cameras

(The following are remarks by Francesca Wright at the City Council Meeting) Tonight I am representing Yol ...

(The following are remarks by Francesca Wright at the City Council Meeting) Tonight I am representing Yolo People Power: Envisioning Liberty and Social Justice and Yolo ACLU. We would like to comment ...

March 13, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Staff Pushing for New Cameras over Objections from Police Accountability Commission

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|Date: March 08, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Staff Pushing for New Cameras over Objections from Police Accountability Commission

Back in December, I wrote a commentary questioning the sacrifice of privacy in favor of surveillance, the ...

Back in December, I wrote a commentary questioning the sacrifice of privacy in favor of surveillance, the appearance of safety. The council in December was willing to expand the use of public surveill ...

March 08, 2020
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Audit Finds that Law Enforcement Violates State Law against License Plate Surveillance Technology

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|Date: February 15, 2020
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Audit Finds that Law Enforcement Violates State Law against License Plate Surveillance Technology

By Linh Nguyen Sacramento - An audit requested by Senator Scott Wiener finds that law enforcement agencie ...

By Linh Nguyen Sacramento - An audit requested by Senator Scott Wiener finds that law enforcement agencies across the state were violating state law regarding Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) by ...

February 15, 2020
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ICE and CBP Are Secretly Tracking Us Using Stingrays

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|Date: December 15, 2019
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ICE and CBP Are Secretly Tracking Us Using Stingrays

The public has a right to know if and how often ICE and CBP are using Stingrays. By Alexia Ramirez and Bo ...

The public has a right to know if and how often ICE and CBP are using Stingrays. By Alexia Ramirez and Bobby Hodgson Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) a ...

December 15, 2019
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California Governor Signs Landmark Bill Halting Facial Recognition on Police Body Cams

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|Date: October 12, 2019
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California Governor Signs Landmark Bill Halting Facial Recognition on Police Body Cams

AB 1215 will keep inaccurate, biased, and invasive surveillance technology from being used against the pu ...

AB 1215 will keep inaccurate, biased, and invasive surveillance technology from being used against the public with body cams, which were promised for police transparency and accountability (From Press ...

October 12, 2019
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A Federal Court Sounds the Alarm on the Privacy Harms of Face Recognition Technology

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|Date: August 10, 2019
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A Federal Court Sounds the Alarm on the Privacy Harms of Face Recognition Technology

By Nathan Freed Wessler On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit became the first app ...

By Nathan Freed Wessler On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit became the first appellate court in the nation to directly address the privacy harms posed by face recognition tech ...

August 10, 2019
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The Recent Ploy to Break Encryption Is An Old Idea Proven Wrong

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|Date: July 28, 2019
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The Recent Ploy to Break Encryption Is An Old Idea Proven Wrong

by Jon Callas This is the fourth and final in a series of essays about a proposal by officials at Britain ...

by Jon Callas This is the fourth and final in a series of essays about a proposal by officials at Britain’s GCHQ about requiring encrypted communications platforms to be designed to secretly add an ex ...

July 28, 2019
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Adding a Ghost User to Our Encrypted Communications Is No ‘Crocodile Chip’

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|Date: July 27, 2019
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Adding a Ghost User to Our Encrypted Communications Is No ‘Crocodile Chip’

By Jon Callas Note: This is part three of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas breaks down ...

By Jon Callas Note: This is part three of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas breaks down the fatal flaws of a recent proposal to add a secret user — the government — to our encrypted ...

July 27, 2019
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When You Have Data, They Will Come

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|Date: July 25, 2019
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When You Have Data, They Will Come

By Jon Callas Note: This is part two of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas breaks down t ...

By Jon Callas Note: This is part two of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas breaks down the fatal flaws of a recent proposal to add a secret user — the government — to our encrypted co ...

July 25, 2019
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The ‘Ghost User’ Ploy to Break Encryption Won’t Work

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|Date: July 24, 2019
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The ‘Ghost User’ Ploy to Break Encryption Won’t Work

By Jon Callas Note: This is part one of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas breaks down t ...

By Jon Callas Note: This is part one of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas breaks down the fatal flaws of a recent proposal to add a secret user — the government — to our encrypted co ...

July 24, 2019
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Axon Decides to Ban Facial Recognition on Body Cameras

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 29, 2019
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Axon Decides to Ban Facial Recognition on Body Cameras

Axon, a maker of officer-worn body cameras used by many United States police departments, today announced ...

Axon, a maker of officer-worn body cameras used by many United States police departments, today announced that it will not add facial recognition systems to those devices. This announcement comes as t ...

June 29, 2019
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The Hypocrisy of William Barr’s Spying Claims

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|Date: June 04, 2019
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The Hypocrisy of William Barr’s Spying Claims

By Ashley Gorski Discussing the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation, Attorney General William Barr ...

By Ashley Gorski Discussing the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation, Attorney General William Barr recently claimed that “Government power was used to spy on American citizens.” He went on to sa ...

June 04, 2019
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SD Council Supports AB 392; SF Sups Oppose Face Surveillance

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|Date: May 15, 2019
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SD Council Supports AB 392; SF Sups Oppose Face Surveillance

SF Board of Sups Approves Historic Face Surveillance Ban and Oversight Law (From Press Release) - Today, ...

SF Board of Sups Approves Historic Face Surveillance Ban and Oversight Law (From Press Release) - Today, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed the Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance, a histori ...

May 15, 2019
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Personal Information Treated Like Raw Material for Surveillance Technology

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|Date: May 12, 2019
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Personal Information Treated Like Raw Material for Surveillance Technology

By Jake Snow The information that you share with a company should not be repurposed or sold without your ...

By Jake Snow The information that you share with a company should not be repurposed or sold without your consent. But companies are building algorithms from massive repositories of personal informatio ...

May 12, 2019
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