Congresswoman Lee has responded to our letter and relocated her event from the Oakland Marriot. Urban Shield has announced the 2015 show will not be held at the Marriot next year. Thank you, Barbara Lee!
The BA-CLC has sent a letter to Congressperson Barbara Lee asking her to reschedule her fundraising event at the Marriot Hotel during the police militarization expo Urban Shield Continue reading Barbara Lee Relocates Fundraising Event from Oakland Marriot During Urban Shield
As courts release formerly classified documents, albeit heavily blacked out, the extent of surveillance overreach gets a bigger paper trail.
Enclosed is one sample document discussing in detail the FISC Court’s (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) unease with many of the NSA’s actions. Continue reading Declassified Documents
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has proposed new sweeping censorship rules for information going into and out of California prisons
Public comment remains open, years after the call. Use this tool to send a note with your objection to the vague and over-reaching regulations, which characterize all political materials as “oppositional to society and authority”.
Continue reading CA Corrections Department Proposes New Sweeping Prison Censorship Rules
On June 5, people all over the world reset the net to take online privacy and security into their own hands and Bay Area Shame on Feinstein activists delivered thousands of petitions to Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office asking her to stop undermining real surveillance reform. Activists held a press conference outside the Senator’s district office.
Continue reading Reset The Net – San Francisco
Update 3/7/2014 Oakland City Council as expected, voted on 3-5-2014 to scale back the DAC spying machine to Port of Oakland property only.
The nascent (and wildly undeveloped) privacy policy was reviewed by Media Alliance and the comments we submitted to the City of Oakland are attached. Continue reading Oakland Domain Awareness Center (DAC): Scaled Back
CREDO Mobile announced it is releasing a transparency report detailing the number of governmental requests it has received to turn over customer information. Continue reading Credo Mobile: 1st Cellular Carrier To Tell Users of Surveillance Requests
Activist Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10-years in prison.
Here is his statement before entering prison to serve a 10 year sentence for hacking into the Stratfor database. Continue reading Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Hacktivism
Video Highlights from DC Stop Watching Us Rally
