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by loteck 6y ago
We could have public cameras, with a robust public process and oversight by city council. That's possible. If the public wanted that, the ordinance we are working to pass would allow it. Unaccountable mass surveillance without any over
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by loteck 6y ago
My original title was "orders city's surveillance camera network shut down." HN likes to defer to original headlines, which is understandable.
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the public hearings on this tech were entirely focused on city planning and climate action. We don't find anything on the historic record where anyone at any committee or council session even asked a question about the situational awar
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by loteck 6y ago
thank you, I fixed it. (And I feel dumb)
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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 ci
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by 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 hav
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by loteck 6y ago
My email is my username here at gmail
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by loteck 6y ago
Lemon Grove is a different city from San Diego, but youre right that we have a problem at the county level as well.
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by loteck 6y ago
Email me please, it's in my profile. You can absolutely help.
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they have sensors on them that collect environmental data. In fact, the cameras by default are used to generate pedestrian and vehicle data. You have to specifically add the vendor's "situational awareness" module to get a co
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by loteck 6y ago
Your point is valid. In fact, after San Diego missed its last payment, Ubicquia shut down all access to the "smart" data sensors & kept only the cameras running, for police use. So, we can go ahead and drop the whole Smart Str
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by loteck 6y ago
Would love to get in touch with you, as this work is still ongoing. Email is in my profile.
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The camera surveillance was there from the outset, SDPD just didn't realize it or start accessing the camera footage until about a year after the nodes went up.
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2 sitting councilmembers were also present for the vote to approve. All of them expressed that they had no idea the system would turn into a law enforcement surveillance network. They were sold to us as data gathering devices to improve tra
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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&
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Cameras on San Diego streetlights turned off until ordinance in place(sandiegouniontribune.com)
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Carrd: Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything(carrd.co)
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The internet of protest is being built on single-page websites(technologyreview.com)
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by loteck 6y ago
Publii is a local CMS application that generates static sites and pushes them to various platforms, including GH Pages. Theme options leave something to be desired, though.
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Right, all laws require enforcement. A local ordinance, such as ours (which, by the way, includes enforcement teeth), is the beginning of community control, not the end.
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by loteck 6y ago
It's already working in 9 jurisdictions. Oakland is the most prominent. Seattle, San Fran are in there too. Happy to tell you, or anyone who is curious, about it! Email in my profile.
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There is no such "dumping." The plight of those communities is real, and it is used as an example. There are many more examples not mentioned, but that doesn't mean they are excluded from the inventory of harms a coalition wi
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by loteck 6y ago
What I can tell you from experience is that people of color, and religious people, are the most likely to get activated on this idea at the early stages. They can be among the most impacted by the harms of mass surveillance technology, and
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by loteck 6y ago
Completely agree with this, and would like to add that these two problems are very, very solvable.
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In my city, we are working on an ordinance to put oversight of surveillance technology into the hands of a community commission. Definitely hundreds, but possibly thousands, of people have called in, emailed in, or otherwise commented in su
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by loteck 6y ago
One silver lining of living in these United States is that you can be assured that complex technology picked up by cities and counties (and often even states) will be implemented carelessly and wielded by only the hammiest fists. The politi
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by loteck 6y ago
Mass surveillance certainly doesn't.
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Fire rules take into account many factors to ensure the health & safety of the people in the building. A hard cap on attendance (it's 25% or 100, whichever is smaller, by the way) during a pandemic is another example of accounting
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by loteck 6y ago
Debt is simply a way to "materialize" risk. There are certainly good risks and bad risks. Leaving good risks untaken is one way to miss out on experiencing growth.
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by loteck 6y ago
You have a bunch of interesting points in here all spoiled by your insistence that grandparent is running a cult.

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