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6:30 pm Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons
Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons
Jan 9 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State @ Omni Commons | Oakland | California | United States
Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay. We fight against “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” spy drones, facial recognition, police body cameras and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones, to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government. We draft and push for privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in Sacramento. We advocate in op-eds and in the streets. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no … Continued
7:00 pm Ars Technica Live: Ashkan Soltani @ Eli's Mile High Club
Ars Technica Live: Ashkan Soltani @ Eli's Mile High Club
Jan 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
For our next #ArsLive we are very excited to host Ashkan Soltani (@ashk4n) as our guest. He recently testified about Facebook before the UK parliament, among many other achievements. He is a Technologist, Reporter, Founder, Policy Wonk — former FTC CTO and Obama Whitehouse Senior Advisor .65402
7:00 pm It’s 2019. Do you know where your personal data is right now? @ Eli's Mile High Club
It’s 2019. Do you know where your personal data is right now? @ Eli's Mile High Club
Jan 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
The Cambridge Analytica scandal. Data breaches at hotels, banks, rideshare companies, and hospitals. Facial recognition. DNA databases. We’re living through the data privacy apocalypse and now it’s time to figure out what happens next. Here to discuss that with us at the next Ars Technica Live is Ashkan Soltani, an independent researcher and technologist who specializes in data privacy. Recently, Soltani testified before the US and UK governments about Facebook’s privacy practices and how they make user data available to third parties. Soltani also authored the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, … Continued
7:00 pm No Coal in Richmond meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
No Coal in Richmond meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Jan 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
No Coal in Richmond meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
The Richmond City Council took its first step on December 18, 2018 toward ending the shipment of coal and petroleum coke (pet coke) through the city.  These toxic commodities are shipped overseas from the privately-owned Richmond Levin terminal. The Richmond City Council is considering legislation to phase out and ultimately end the use of the terminal for coal and pet coke.  At the council meeting yesterday, about a dozen people spoke in support and no one spoke in opposition to an initial draft of the legislation. Council members voted unanimously … Continued