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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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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? <br>
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-G<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13-11-17-Sun 8:21 PM, Marina Kukso
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<div dir="ltr">Call to Action: Pack city hall & rally to stop
the Domain Awareness Center in Oakland.
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<div>(Please forward widely) <br>
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<div>Oakland City Council is building a surveillance center to
aggregate video surveillance feeds from all over Oakland.
The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://oaklandwiki.org/dac">Domain Awareness Center</a>
(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.<br>
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<div>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.<br>
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<div>The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/technology/privacy-fears-as-surveillance-grows-in-cities.html?pagewanted=all">NY
Times</a> made the DAC national news, as similar centers
are being considered in other cities.<br>
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<div>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 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityClerk/s/SpeakerCard/SpeakerCard/OAK032373">sign
up to speak</a> (DAC is item #20).<br>
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<div>For more info:<br>
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<div>On the rally: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.facebook.com/events/409163039209928/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming">https://www.facebook.com/events/409163039209928/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming</a>
(or email actionforprogress
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@<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>)</div>
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<div>On the DAC: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://oaklandwiki.org/DAC">http://oaklandwiki.org/DAC</a><br>
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<div>On twitter: #DAC || <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://twitter.com/oaklandprivacy">@oaklandprivacy</a><br>
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