17 Nov
2013
17 Nov
'13
11:22 p.m.
On 11/17/2013 11:14 PM, GtwoG PublicOhOne wrote:
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?
This is alarmist and disgusting. This kind of fear mongering is the
easiest way to fake understanding of a complex problem and I won't waste
a second beyond this to discuss it further.
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-- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙
-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 <http://oaklandwiki.org/dac> (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
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/technology/privacy-fears-as-surveillance-grows-in-cities.html?pagewanted=all>
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
<http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityClerk/s/SpeakerCard/SpeakerCard/OAK032373>
(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 <http://gmail.com>)
On the DAC: http://oaklandwiki.org/DAC
On twitter: #DAC || @oaklandprivacy <http://twitter.com/oaklandprivacy>
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