San Francisco Takes Small Step to Establish Oversight Over Business Association Surveillance
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/san-francisco-takes-small-step-establish-oversight-over-business-association
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week voted unanimously in favor of requiring all special business districts—such as the Union Square Business Improvement District (USBID)—to bring any new surveillance plans to the Board before adopting new technologies. The resolution—passed in the wake of an EFF investigation, a lawsuit brought by local activists, and a sustained local coalition effort—challenging police use of the USBID camera network to monitor last summer’s protests - is (...)
