"“It’s really exciting,” said Catherine Crump, an assistant clinical professor at UC Berkeley’s law school, who has been following Oakland’s story.
“It’s an example of a community trying to grasp hold of how technology is changing, and actually exert some control over the degree which people are going to be subject to surveillance and then in what ways,” she said.
Oakland is also in a unique position because it has a city council that has been responsive to privacy advocates’ concerns.
“Oakland has the capacity to really be a model here,” she said."
- Date Published:01/22/2016
- Original Publication:KQED News