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Mike Katz-Lacabe
@mlacabe
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Director of Research at Oakland Privacy focused on law enforcement surveillance technologies (ALPR, StingRay, etc). Parent. Spouse.
A database of lawn signs, bumper stickers, t-shirt slogans, and more. Welcome to the surveillance dystopia brought to you by license plate readers. @oaklandprivacy @twrling
Sometimes, even images of you and your children getting out of your car in your driveway.
https://www.wired.com/story/license-plate-readers-political-signs-bumper-stickers/
If you have found me (👋) because you're wondering whether the Oracle privacy lawsuit settlement is real, I'm pleased to tell you that it is real. I was one of the plaintiffs. The website https://katzprivacysettlement.com/ is the actual settlement website and is documented in the settlement agreement. You can find more information about my other work at https://oaklandprivacy.org/ and https://www.cehrp.org/.
Oakland Police deployed StarChase, a GPS tracking system, three times in 2023. Twice, the GPS projectile failed to stick to the target vehicle. And in the third instance, the GPS tag was removed.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24767423/oakland_pd_starchase_annual_report_2023.pdf
Palo Alto to spend $224,657 for technology that shoots adhesive GPS trackers from its 20 police cars. It is funded by a grant from the California Board of State and Community Corrections.
Surveillance Use Policy: https://cityofpaloalto.primegov.com/api/compilemeetingattachmenthistory/historyattachment/?historyId=f55b1d82-902b-4551-999d-e63ac99a5cac
Pittsburg (CA) issued its Military Equipment Annual Report as required by AB481, but it appears to have no details on actual usage of the military equipment. 🙄
Long Beach (CA) is one of six cities where speed cameras have been authorized by AB 645. An agenda item for developing a use policy for the speed cameras will be discussed at the next Long Beach City Council meeting.
https://longbeach.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument?meetingTemplateId=27219&compileOutputType=1
