Take the Survey: Comments Needed on the DAC Proposed Privacy Policy

The City of Oakland would like to hear your thoughts on the DAC committee’s proposed privacy policy.

Take the Survey:
DAC Draft Privacy Policy for Public Comment

Here are some talking points for your comments, should you need them:

1. Strong support for all the “Additional Recommendations.” These will have far more impact than the DAC Policy, which is too narrow in scope.
2. Specific support for a citywide privacy policy.
3. Specific support for a standing privacy committee.
4. Specific support for a surveillance equipment ordinance – this is the big fish.
5. Specific support for penalties for wrongdoing. There is a lot of push back from DAC staff, which is not surprising.

Thank you very much for your support.

Contact the Public Safety Committee

The proposed Domain Awareness Center (DAC) privacy & data retention policy will be coming before Oakland City Council’s Public Safety Committee on February 10, 2015. Now is the time to contact the members of the Public Safety Committee to ask that they support the DAC Committee’s recommendations.

If you represent an organization and would like to endorse the recommendations, please use your official letterhead. See the bullet points below, and feel free to use this letter from Media Alliance (PDF) as a template.

If you wish to contact the Public Safety Committee as an individual, please feel free to use this letter as a template (PDF), a modified version of the Media Alliance letter (PDF).  Just add a date and your name/signature. If you know what district you live in, please include that as well. (Find your Council district with the Council District Locator.) Then send it by email or US Mail.

You can read the proposed policy and recommendations below:

• DAC Privacy and Data Retention Policy – Final DRAFT (PDF)
• DAC Ad Hoc Advisory Committee Recommendations to the City Council that fall outside the written Policy (PDF)

Contact the Public Safety Committee:

Desley Brooks, Chair || dbrooks@oaklandnet.com || @desleyb
Noel Gallo || ngallo@oaklandnet.com
Abel Guillén || aguillen@oaklandnet.com || @Abel_Guillen
Dan Kalb || dkalb@oaklandnet.com || @DanKalb

Please also share your letter with us at oaklandprivacy@gmail.com.

DAC Ad Hoc Committee Recommendations to the Oakland City Council

DAC Privacy and Data Retention Policy

• Limits access to DAC and data only to those with a Need to Know involved in an Allowable Use. Third party data sharing requires Council approval via MOU.
• Robust Internal and External audits. Robust annual compliance reporting.
• Disclosure of all data, protocols, sharing agreements, use logs, etc. unless expressly prohibited by law.
• Statutory damages and misdemeanor charges for violations. Private right of action.
• No additional retention – data stored on originating equipment.
• Create privacy officer roles, internal and external to ensure compliance, help audit.

Standing Privacy Committee

• Advise the City on broad privacy related matters, including oversight of DAC and surveillance equipment.
• Proposed changes to DAC Policy or DAC would come through committee first, before Council.
• Draft citywide privacy policy.

Amendments to existing Whistleblower Ordinance

• Change definition so that “any person” can report abuse, not limited to employees.
• Add section creating multiple avenues for reporting, not limited to direct supervisor or normal chain of command, and section requiring training.

New Surveillance Equipment Ordinance

• Informed public debate about any surveillance technology proposal prior to acquisition or pursuing funding.
• Informed decisions by Council – must consider costs, both fiscal and to civil liberties.
• Privacy and data retention policies for all equipment before use allowed.
• Liability for misuse.
• Ongoing oversight and accountability, including annual auditing and public reporting.

Thank you for your support.

February 15: Domain Awareness Center, Privacy Policy Teach-In

WHEN:

February 15, 2015
6:00pm – 8:00pm

WHERE:

OMNI Collective in the ballroom
4799 Shattuck Avenue
Oakland, CA 94609

WHAT:

The Oakland Privacy Working Group has been active trying to get the city to adopt a privacy policy which will soon be voted on by the City Council. We wanted to have another teach-in accompanied by a security-state movie, with speakers and discussion afterward. There will probably be some food available, most likely just a few pizzas.

Here are video highlights from the last teach-in on January 18th:

Feb 10: Support the DAC Privacy Policy at the Public Safety Committee

The proposed DAC privacy & data retention policy will be coming before Oakland City Council’s Public Safety Committee on February 10, 2015.

Meeting Details:
Public Safety Committee
Tuesday, February 10
6:00pm
Oakland City Hall
(14th Street & Broadway)

You can read the proposed policy and recommendations below:

• DAC Privacy and Data Retention Policy – Final DRAFT (PDF)
• DAC Ad Hoc Advisory Committee Recommendations to the City Council that fall outside the written Policy (PDF)

Please contact the Public Safety Committee to share your support for the policy recommendations.

Jan 21: Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting

Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting

WHEN:
January 21, 2015 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

REPEATS:
Monthly on 3rd Wednesday, forever

WHERE:
Impact Hub
2323 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
USA

NOTE: For now the OPWG is meeting at the Impact Hub, 2323 Broadway, Oakland, subject to change. When the Omni-Collective gets more sorted out we may decide to shift to that facility at 4799 Shattuck Ave.

Join Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, surveillance systems from facial recognition to license plate readers, Urban Shield and other invasions of privacy by our militarized police and benighted City Government.

Stop by and learn how you can help guard Oakland’s right not to be spied on by the government & if you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv, send an email to:

oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe AT lists.riseup.net

Jan 18 Workshop: Stop the Spy Center from Encroaching Into Oakland

Stop the Spy Center from Encroaching Into Oakland – A Workshop on the DAC, its Privacy Policy and Surveillance Equipment

WHEN:
January 18, 2015 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

WHERE:
OMNI Collective in the basement
4799 Shattuck Avenue
Oakland,CA 94609
USA

The Domain Awareness Center was constrained last year to the Port of Oakland, and not allowed to come online until a privacy policy was put in place.

The privacy policy has been written, and will come before the City Council beginning on January 27th.

The Privacy Policy Committee and the Oakland Privacy Working Group have been working hard to make sure the privacy policy is very strong and it has become a national model. Now support is needed so that it won’t be watered down by the Council!

The Privacy Policy Committee will also recommend to the City Council that the Privacy Policy for the DAC be extended to Oakland (currently Oakland has no privacy policy), and also that the City Council adopt an “open” surveillance equipment acquisition ordinance.

• DAC Privacy and Data Retention Policy – Final DRAFT
• DAC Ad Hoc Advisory Committee Recommendations to the City Council that fall outside the written Policy

Come learn more about all of this and how you can help keep privacy alive in Oakland.

Reference: The DAC FAQ

OPWG Meetings – November + December 2014

Oakland Privacy Working Group Meetings

WHEN:

Wednesday, November 19, 2014
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Wednesday, December 17, 2014
6:30 pm – 7:45 pm

 

REPEATS:
3rd Wednesday for the Holidays, normally 4th Wednesday

 

WHERE:

Impact Hub
2323 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
USA

 

NOTE: For now the OPWG is meeting at the Impact Hub, 2323 Broadway, Oakland, subject to change. When the Omni-Collective gets more sorted out we may decide to shift to that facility at 4799 Shattuck Ave.

 

Join Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, and other invasions of privacy by our benighted City Government

Stop by and learn how you can help guard Oakland’s right not to be spied on by the government & if you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv, send an email to: oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe AT lists.riseup.net

For more information on the DAC check out:

• DAC FAQ
• Oakland Wiki Domain Awareness Page
• Oakland Privacy WordPress