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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).
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