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...
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/sandiego/comments/ipyei8/san_diegos...
How do I stay up to date on information like this? What can I do as a resident to help the cause?
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.
>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.
Speaking for myself, however, it's been over a year since reddit was part of my daily routine.