Rally this Tue. 11/19: Against Oakland's Planned Surveillance Center! 5:30pm at City Hall!
17 Nov
2013
17 Nov
'13
8:21 p.m.
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);(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-surv…
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/Sp…
is item #20).
For more info:
On the rally:
https://www.facebook.com/events/409163039209928/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcom…
email actionforprogress
@gmail.com)
On the DAC: http://oaklandwiki.org/DAC
On twitter: #DAC || @oaklandprivacy <http://twitter.com/oaklandprivacy>
<actionforprogress(a)gmail.com>
17 Nov
17 Nov
11:14 p.m.
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
=====
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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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.
--
-- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙
-G
=====
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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18 Nov
12:04 a.m.
On 13-11-17-Sun 11:22 PM, rhodey wrote:
On 11/17/2013 11:14 PM, GtwoG PublicOhOne wrote:
Emotional put-downs minus coherent arguement plus refusal to discuss
equals thoughtless dogmatism.
-G.
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. 
9:24 a.m.
On Nov 17, 2013 11:22 PM, "rhodey" <rhodey(a)anhonesteffort.org> wrote:
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On 11/17/2013 11:14 PM, GtwoG PublicOhOne wrote:
I will point out a few things here:
-putting resources toward equal education and opportunities for all is the
single easiest way to reduce crime rates. It might seem less intuitive than
getting more people onto a violent police force known for racist
repression, but only if you're not thinking about the level of violence,
chaos, and murder that the police are responsible for. Somehow the violent
cops we already have who mostly live outside the city are not helping. One
interesting thing about the city's expenditures on policing is the amount
of ballooned salaries due to overtime. Some more cops on the rolls might
fix this, actually reducing the labor cost overall, but if so then there's
no reason to need additional funding.
-Casting oneself in this absolutist fashion as the victim of crimes and
other people as the perpetrators kind of misses the point of our common
humanity and the varied circumstances that might lead someone to choose to
perform thefts or violent acts.
I am reminded of recent research I read about rats and cocaine, which
challenged paradigmatic thinking about addiction. In the past rats had
chosen cocaine over food and water, leading scientists to believe in an
addiction response that overwhelms all rational thought. It turns out that
if the rats have a big enough enclosure with enough to do (ie aren't in
ratty prison) they choose other activities over cocaine even if they are
'addicted'.
This isn't to say that I think people who commit 'crimes' are drug users,
but that perhaps all creatures respond to limited choices by doing things
that are different than they would do otherwise.
Tl;Dr anyone concerned about crime in Oakland might consider the root of
the problem, SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS AND POVERTY, and if one wants to address
the problem ethically that would be the place to start.
Considering that the endemic poverty and lack of options in some
communities of Oakland seriously curtails the level of choice available to
people from those areas, I think it is interesting to complain about this
problem from the point of view of oneself getting robbed. Nobody should get
robbed, but the reason this happens is the endemic poverty and lack of
options. Addressing these root causes would solve everyone's problems,
instead of using police violence to cordon the problems away from the area
where the wealthy would like to recreate unmolested.
The wealthy. That's us. That's you. Maybe you don't see yourself that way
but in some contexts that is the case.
R.
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.
--
-- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙
> -G
>
>
> =====
>
>
> 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-…
>> 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…
>> (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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THANK YOU rachel!
-amber
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On 11/17/2013 11:14 PM, GtwoG PublicOhOne wrote:
I will point out a few things here:
-putting resources toward equal education and opportunities for all is the
single easiest way to reduce crime rates. It might seem less intuitive than
getting more people onto a violent police force known for racist
repression, but only if you're not thinking about the level of violence,
chaos, and murder that the police are responsible for. Somehow the violent
cops we already have who mostly live outside the city are not helping. One
interesting thing about the city's expenditures on policing is the amount
of ballooned salaries due to overtime. Some more cops on the rolls might
fix this, actually reducing the labor cost overall, but if so then there's
no reason to need additional funding.
-Casting oneself in this absolutist fashion as the victim of crimes and
other people as the perpetrators kind of misses the point of our common
humanity and the varied circumstances that might lead someone to choose to
perform thefts or violent acts.
I am reminded of recent research I read about rats and cocaine, which
challenged paradigmatic thinking about addiction. In the past rats had
chosen cocaine over food and water, leading scientists to believe in an
addiction response that overwhelms all rational thought. It turns out that
if the rats have a big enough enclosure with enough to do (ie aren't in
ratty prison) they choose other activities over cocaine even if they are
'addicted'.
This isn't to say that I think people who commit 'crimes' are drug users,
but that perhaps all creatures respond to limited choices by doing things
that are different than they would do otherwise.
Tl;Dr anyone concerned about crime in Oakland might consider the root of
the problem, SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS AND POVERTY, and if one wants to address
the problem ethically that would be the place to start.
Considering that the endemic poverty and lack of options in some
communities of Oakland seriously curtails the level of choice available to
people from those areas, I think it is interesting to complain about this
problem from the point of view of oneself getting robbed. Nobody should get
robbed, but the reason this happens is the endemic poverty and lack of
options. Addressing these root causes would solve everyone's problems,
instead of using police violence to cordon the problems away from the area
where the wealthy would like to recreate unmolested.
The wealthy. That's us. That's you. Maybe you don't see yourself that way
but in some contexts that is the case.
R.
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.
--
-- rhodey ˙ ͜ʟ˙
> -G
>
>
> =====
>
>
> 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-…
>> 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…
>> (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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The "Big Data Bandwagon" isn't all bad, there are institutions actively
working on opening up access to government data to increase transparency:
http://sunlightfoundation.com/about/
mike
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:14 PM, GtwoG PublicOhOne <g2g-public01(a)att.net>wrote;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?
-G
=====
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-surv…
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/Sp…
is item #20).
For more info:
On the rally:
https://www.facebook.com/events/409163039209928/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcom… email
actionforprogress
@gmail.com)
On the DAC: http://oaklandwiki.org/DAC
On twitter: #DAC || @oaklandprivacy <http://twitter.com/oaklandprivacy>
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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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(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.
8:05 a.m.
Looks like the meeting itself also starts at 5:30, but the DAC is item #20
on the agenda (
https://oakland.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=274014&GUID=40979A84…)
which means that unless they move it up on the agenda (which is possible,
although we have no real way to know whether they will), that they will
only get to it some time later. If you'll be nearby, you can always watch
the meeting online and just come when it seems like they're getting close
to the topic :) Here's how to watch:
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityCouncil/s/VideoArchive/index.htm
- Marina
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote:
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.
>For more info:
>On the rally:
https://www.facebook.com/events/409163039209928/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcom… email
actionforprogress
@gmail.com)On the DAC: http://oaklandwiki.org/DAC
>On twitter: #DAC || @oaklandprivacy
>_______________________________________________
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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.
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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AnimationAmber . -
GtwoG PublicOhOne -
Hol Gaskill -
Marina Kukso -
Mike Schachter -
rachel lyra hospodar -
rhodey