Oakland puts off acting on controversial surveillance system
Activists are keeping an eye on Oakland as city officials grapple with new proposed restrictions for the Domain Awareness Center, a controversial surveillance system at the city’s port.
But people will have to wait awhile for the city to act on the new policy, drafted over the course of a year by an ad hoc committee of lawyers, techies, and privacy buffs. City Council public safety committee Chair Desley Brooks postponed a planned Tuesday vote on the policy, saying it needs to be reformatted.
Nadia Kayyali, an activist with the civil liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was frustrated after arriving 20 minutes late to the meeting, only to find out the item had been postponed.
“This is the second time this has happened, in a city with a real lack of trust between the elected representatives and the people,” Kayyali said, noting that the policy first appeared on a public safety committee agenda in February, but was delayed then, too.
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