[sudo-discuss] Breaking: Oakland to lead country in diverting anti-terror funding to ubiquitous warrantless surveillance

[David Keenan]

this DAC shit is totally out of control. We have to start working on making
the enormous problems it represents visible to everyone.

I'd like it we could fold activism & awareness around the DAC into the
cryptoparty, or have a cryptoparty around brainstorming how to tackle this
issue locally.

Solidarity,
david

On Sunday, October 13, 2013, GtwoG PublicOhOne wrote:

>
> Re. the police using Facebook and Google, and Stephen Spiker's question
> "what happens when someone doesn't like me and has access to all that
> information?":
>
> Right now 41% of employers use Facebook to screen job applicants and
> monitor employees.  That creates an _enormous_ chilling effect on speech.
>
> And, credit agencies are also using Facebook to assign
> creditworthiness-by-association.  If your "friends" have bad credit, your
> own credit rating goes down.  That creates an _enormous_ chilling effect on
> freedom of association.
>
> With all the anarchists, left-libertarians, and civil liberties hawks
> onboard here, where's the outrage about those abuses?
>
> Or have we become smug in our status as geeks, whose economics are secure
> even if we wear the circle-A flag into the office and into job interviews?
> Do we care about Joe Average Worker whose job may be dangling by a thread,
> whose boss may be a diehard Fox Newz enthusiast, and who might end up
> unemployed and out in the streets for voicing an "unpopular" opinion
> online...?
>
> Is that a paradigm example of why Marxists consider the "intelligentsia"
> to be an unreliable class as far as solidarity with workers is concerned?
> Are we better than that?, or not?
>
> --
>
> The primary difference between NSA and Google is that you can vote for
> NSA's boss every four years, but Google has better marketing.
>
> The root issue is _collection_.  Data that aren't collected, can't be
> abused.  If you're on Facebook, if you use GMail or Google Voice, or if you
> carry around a "smart" phone with a battery that can't be removed, you're
> already subjected to a degree of surveillance that NSA reserves for members
> of Al Qaeda.
>
> If you don't like the Oakland Police getting access to the data, the place
> to start is with the mega-corps that collect the data.  Complaining about
> the police using data that huge corporations collect, without complaining
> about the mega-corps collecting the data, is a self-contradiction.
>
> Lastly, shot-spotters shouldn't be controversial, even among those of us
> who support the personal rights interpretation of the 2nd Amendment.  A
> gunshot on a city street means one of two things: a criminal has just shot
> a victim, or a criminal's would-be victim has just shot their attacker in
> self-defense.  Either of those things merits getting the police and
> paramedics on the scene, pronto.
>
> -G.
>
>
> =====
>
>
>
> On 13-10-13-Sun 7:13 PM, Eddan Katz wrote:
>
>
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/technology/privacy-fears-as-surveillance-grows-in-cities.html<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/technology/privacy-fears-as-surveillance-grows-in-cities.html?_r=0>
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> October 13, 2013
> **Privacy Fears as Surveillance Grows in Cities** ** By SOMINI SENGUPTA<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/somini_sengupta/index.html>
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>
> OAKLAND, Calif. — Federal grants of $7 million awarded to this city were
> meant largely to help thwart terror attacks<http://aapa.files.cms-plus.com/PDFs/FY2009PSGPGuidanceFINAL.pdf> at
> its bustling port. But instead, the money is going to a police initiative
> that will collect and analyze reams of surveillance data from around town —
> from gunshot-detection sensors in the barrios of East Oakland to license
> plate readers mounted on police cars patrolling the city’s upscale hills.
>
> The new system, scheduled to begin next summer, is the latest example of
> how cities are compiling and processing large amounts of information, known
> as big data, for routine law enforcement. And the system underscores how
> technology has enabled the tracking of people in many aspects of life.
>
> The police can monitor a fire hose of social media posts to look for
> evidence of criminal activities; transportation agencies can track
> commuters’ toll payments when drivers use an electronic pass; and the
> National Security Agency, as news reports this summer revealed, scooped up
> telephone records of millions of cellphone customers in the United States.
>
> Like the Oakland effort, other pushes to use new surveillance tools in law
> enforcement are supported with federal dollars. The New York Police
> Department, aided by federal financing, has a big data system that links
> 3,000 surveillance cameras with license plate readers, radiation sensors,
> criminal databases and terror suspect lists. Police in Massachusetts have
> used federal money to buy automated license plate scanners. And police in
> Texas have bought a drone with homeland security money, something that
> Alameda County, which Oakland is part of, also tried but shelved after
> public protest.
>
> Proponents of the Oakland initiative, formally known as the <http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center/_files/Port%20of%20Oakland%20DAC%20Report.pdf/_info/>
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