As I predicted in California Surveillance Sweep – Success!, a preliminary report by Dave Maass, Here are 79 California Surveillance Tech Policies. But Where Are the Other 90?, outlines the success:
Laws are only as strong as their enforcement.
That’s why last weekend more than 30 citizen watchdogs joined EFF’s team to hold California law enforcement and public safety agencies accountable. Together, we combed through nearly 170 California government websites to identify privacy and usage policies for surveillance technology that must now be posted online under state law.
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You can tell from the headline that some 90 websites are missing surveillance policies required by law.
See Dave’s post for early analysis of the results, more posts to follow on the details.
This crowd-sourcing was an experiment for the EFF and I am hopeful they will provide similar opportunities to participate in the future.
Age has made me less useful at the barricades but I can still wield a keyboard. It was a real joy to contribute to such a cause.
Along those lines, consider joining the Electronic Frontier Alliance:
a new network we’ve [EFF] launched to increase grassroots activism on digital civil liberties issues around the country
Most of my readers have digital skills oppressors only dream about.
It’s up to you where you put them to work.