[sudo-discuss] Rally this Tue. 11/19: Against Oakland's Planned Surveillance Center! 5:30pm at City Hall!

[rhodey]

On 11/17/2013 11:14 PM, GtwoG PublicOhOne wrote:
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> 
> It's a waste of money, when Facebook and Google provide all that
> surveillance "free."  If Google Glass takes off, the streets will be
> full of walking surveillance drones, and tapping that feed ought to be
> "free" too.
> 
> IMHO Oakland should use the money to hire 300 more cops.  That's 200 to
> get back up to average for a city of this size, plus another hundred
> since we're the official Robbery Capitol of America.  Add another dozen
> or so 911 dispatchers and we might not have to wait 36 minutes to reach
> one on a weekend night.
> 
> As for chilling effects on liberty, few things are quite as chilling as
> having a robber's gun pointed at your guts on the street.  Astronomical
> crime rates are a big chill on freedom of association and movement. 
> 
> So the question is, how to lower the probability of getting mugged,
> robbed, house-burgled, car-burgled, carjacked, beaten-up, raped,
> stabbed, shot, or murdered, without jumping on the Big Data bandwagon? 

This is alarmist and disgusting. This kind of fear mongering is the
easiest way to fake understanding of a complex problem and I won't waste
a second beyond this to discuss it further.

-- 
-- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙

> -G
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> On 13-11-17-Sun 8:21 PM, Marina Kukso wrote:
>> Call to Action: Pack city hall & rally to stop the Domain Awareness
>> Center in Oakland.
>>
>> (Please forward widely) 
>>
>> Oakland City Council is building a surveillance center to aggregate
>> video surveillance feeds from all over Oakland. The Domain Awareness
>> Center <http://oaklandwiki.org/dac> (DAC), as it's called, will
>> include a computer system that aggregates information from
>> surveillance cameras and license plate readers across Oakland, and in
>> the future may include facial recognition software and social media
>> data mining.
>>
>> On Tuesday 11/19, City Council will be voting on a resolution that
>> will allow them to move forward with a new contractor for the project
>> (after the old contractor was found to violate an Oakland law that
>> prevents the city from doing business with companies that are in the
>> nuclear weapons industry) without issuing a new request for proposal
>> (RFP). If the resolution fails, Oakland will have to issue a new RFP &
>> potentially lose Dept of Homeland Security funds for the center.
>>
>> The NY Times
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/technology/privacy-fears-as-surveillance-grows-in-cities.html?pagewanted=all>
>> made the DAC national news, as similar centers are being considered in
>> other cities.
>>
>> There's an opportunity to halt or slow down the construction of the
>> DAC this Tuesday evening, so please join a planned rally at 5:30
>> and/or come to the City Council meeting itself. Meetings are open to
>> the public & you can even sign up to speak
>> <http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityClerk/s/SpeakerCard/SpeakerCard/OAK032373>
>> (DAC is item #20).
>>
>> For more info:
>>
>> On the rally:
>> https://www.facebook.com/events/409163039209928/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming
>> (or email actionforprogress
>> @gmail.com <http://gmail.com>)
>> On the DAC: http://oaklandwiki.org/DAC
>> On twitter: #DAC || @oaklandprivacy <http://twitter.com/oaklandprivacy>
>>
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