As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle:
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The Oakland City Council will vote Tuesday on a set of rules to ensure that surveillance cameras at the Port of Oakland could not become — as was once planned across the city — an Orwellian spy system intruding on the privacy of people in and around the port.
The camera network known as the Domain Awareness Center has been controversial since 2013, when it was envisioned as a way to help police and first responders keep watch over the entire city, aggregating footage from traffic cameras, license-plate readers and the city’s gunshot detection system, ShotSpotter, along with data from police records.
That idea was abandoned last year after activists disrupted and even shut down City Council meetings, accusing the city of trampling on their First Amendment rights. …
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