Security cameras increasingly blanket public space throughout our neighborhoods through an archipelago of quasi-private Community Benefit Districts. Today the @sfbos unanimously passed legislation to implement safeguards against their potential abuse. @EFF @ACLU_NorCal
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This modicum of oversight comes in the wake of disturbing allegations that these cameras were accessed by law enforcement and Trump's Department of Homeland Security to target peaceful Black Lives Matters protesters last year.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/san-francisco-police-accessed-business-district-camera-network-spy-protestors …
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My office has also learned that footage from these security camera networks was accessed by federal agencies without any protections in place to prevent the sharing of that information in ways that endanger immigrant communities and implicate SF's Sanctuary City policy.
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There is undoubtedly a role for security cameras to supplement our City's response to crime. But the use of that technology must not proliferate in the private sector simply to avoid public oversight that ensures the health and safety of all residents & visitors to San Francisco.
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What exactly is “our City’s response to crime”, again? Didn’t get that memo. Also, “ensuring the health and safety of all residents & visitors to San Francisco” - did
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He would claim he never got the memo.
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“We’re not using paper”!
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