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Hi all, I've been answering questions about this effort over on Reddit [0], but happy to chat on questions about how this is going down here as well. [0] https

by loteck 6y ago

Hi all, I've been answering questions about this effort over on Reddit [0], but happy to chat on questions about how this is going down here as well. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/sandiego/comments/ipyei8/san_diegos_smart_streetlights_have_been_shut_down/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sandiego/comments/ipyei8/san_diegos...

gummybuns 6y ago
> The surprise announcement came days after the city floated a plan to hand over the camera management and access exclusively to police How do I stay up to date on information like this? What can I do as a resident to help the cause?
- loteck 6y ago
  Email me please, it's in my profile. You can absolutely help.
  - ciarannolan 6y ago
    Can you just share publicly what people can do to help?
    - loteck 6y ago
      I would love to do that! For our effort in SD specifically, we need to add more help and voices to get 2 ordinances passed, to establish oversight of existing & future surveillance technology. Once we are successful at that, we will have a huge amount of work ahead of us to process San Diego's existing inventory of surveillance tech. We need volunteers to help do that work. We need a lot of them, to help keep the workload manageable. For other cities, you need to get started by challenging an existing surveillance tech & assembling a coalition. Then you can work to establish local oversight of your local surveillance tech.
everybodyknows 6y ago
In the Reddit thread 's3thcom' writes: >Surveillance ordinance that will put in stronger rules for how the city acquires and operates this tech ... Eager to hear how this might shape up. Especially how to break the spyware-vendor/police cabal, and move authority back to local residents and shopowners, and their elected representatives.
- loteck 6y ago
  yeah, that's me. We are well into the process of getting a Surveillance ordinance & provacy advislry commission approved via cith council. Once we have that we can establish oversight of every surveillance technology used by the city. Anything in particular I can tell you?
UhDev 6y ago
I came here to get away from reddit!
- csours 6y ago
  Valuable discussions can still take place on reddit, particularly smaller or more heavily moderated subreddits. Speaking for myself, however, it's been over a year since reddit was part of my daily routine.
- loteck 6y ago
  Sorry about that, just linking because there's a lot of questions answered. Mass surveillance technology should definitely be of interest to the HN crowd. Ubicquia, the company operating the system in San Diego, just landed $300M in VC funding. Modern mass surveillance tech is absolutely a tech startup phenomenon.

by loteck 6y ago

gummybuns 6y ago

> The surprise announcement came days after the city floated a plan to hand over the camera management and access exclusively to police How do I stay up to date on information like this? What can I do as a resident to help the cause?

loteck 6y ago
Email me please, it's in my profile. You can absolutely help.
- ciarannolan 6y ago
  Can you just share publicly what people can do to help?
  - loteck 6y ago
    I would love to do that! For our effort in SD specifically, we need to add more help and voices to get 2 ordinances passed, to establish oversight of existing & future surveillance technology. Once we are successful at that, we will have a huge amount of work ahead of us to process San Diego's existing inventory of surveillance tech. We need volunteers to help do that work. We need a lot of them, to help keep the workload manageable. For other cities, you need to get started by challenging an existing surveillance tech & assembling a coalition. Then you can work to establish local oversight of your local surveillance tech.

everybodyknows 6y ago

In the Reddit thread 's3thcom' writes: >Surveillance ordinance that will put in stronger rules for how the city acquires and operates this tech ... Eager to hear how this might shape up. Especially how to break the spyware-vendor/police cabal, and move authority back to local residents and shopowners, and their elected representatives.

loteck 6y ago
yeah, that's me. We are well into the process of getting a Surveillance ordinance & provacy advislry commission approved via cith council. Once we have that we can establish oversight of every surveillance technology used by the city. Anything in particular I can tell you?

UhDev 6y ago

I came here to get away from reddit!

csours 6y ago
Valuable discussions can still take place on reddit, particularly smaller or more heavily moderated subreddits. Speaking for myself, however, it's been over a year since reddit was part of my daily routine.
loteck 6y ago
Sorry about that, just linking because there's a lot of questions answered. Mass surveillance technology should definitely be of interest to the HN crowd. Ubicquia, the company operating the system in San Diego, just landed $300M in VC funding. Modern mass surveillance tech is absolutely a tech startup phenomenon.