18 Nov
2013
18 Nov
'13
7:14 a.m.
what time is the meeting itself
Nov 17, 2013 08:21:42 PM, marina.kukso(a)gmail.com wrote:
Call to Action: Pack city hall & rally to stop the Domain Awareness Center in
Oakland.
>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=upcom… (or email
actionforprogress
@gmail.com)On the DAC: http://oaklandwiki.org/DAC
>On twitter: #DAC || @oaklandprivacy
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>sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
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(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.