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With these ordinances in place, the city has seen its

March 24, 2018 by Lena Webb

With these ordinances in place, the city has seen its privacy issues covered by other local law enforcement agencies. Earlier this year, after an Oakland Times article described a recent mass cyberattack, the Oakland Police Department announced that a new, public data center in the city had been damaged. With this new data center being built, the public will now have access to local government, including the FBI, to further investigate a suspected cyberattack on the city computer system in October.

With Oakland, there is an ongoing push in the U.S. Congress to expand the Fourth Amendment protection to all citizens in the U.S. Additionally, the bill was introduced on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, which included Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Mark Udall of Colorado, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Ron Wyden of Oregon, and Mark Udall of California.

The Privacy Advisory Commission has not been publicly discussed. However, in recent years, as the technology has evolved and the laws have been applied more openly, public comments on the Privacy Advisory Commission's draft legislation have increased.

What do you think? Should the bill be approved? Let us know in the comments below!

UPDATE 1/15/2018: We were notified of a letter sent to the ACLU from the San Francisco District Attorney's Office (SFDAC) as well as Oakland Police Department (OPD). The letter states that the privacy advisory commission "was not contacted by the city of Oakland regarding any issues regarding the proposed ordinance." The city also did not respond to us for this story. As previously reported, in late-September of 2013, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf told the Oakland Sun-Times that she was concerned about a possible privacy breach when she visited the city's new data center to see if there was any way to remove or edit the software. As previously reported, there was no information the police could provide the city on this issue, and it was unclear if there was any way to use the information to track down potentially malicious software. The SFDAC also asked that the city be allowed "reasonable access" to information it was not supposed to share with the city, as well as the public. In addition, the California Privacy Law states that "information is not publicly available, provided, provided, or provided to the public, unless the information is disclosed by a court of law."

In recent years, there has been a growing movement to reform the law in California. With many states looking to reform laws to increase their ability to hold police accountable