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


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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 (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 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 (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

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