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

[Mike Schachter]

The "Big Data Bandwagon" isn't all bad, there are institutions actively
working on opening up access to government data to increase transparency:

http://sunlightfoundation.com/about/

 mike







On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:14 PM, GtwoG PublicOhOne <g2g-public01 at att.net>wrote:

>
>
> 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?
>
> -G
>
>
> =====
>
>
>
> 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)
>  On the DAC: http://oaklandwiki.org/DAC
>  On twitter: #DAC || @oaklandprivacy <http://twitter.com/oaklandprivacy>
>
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