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Tracy Rosenberg
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Dec 4, 2019

A Nonprofit Alliance Becomes an Ally of Big Telecom

How well-meaning, public-serving groups wound up as part of an alliance aimed at undermining state regulation of broadband and privacy laws. BY CHRIS WITTEMAN AND TRACY ROSENBERG -NOVEMBER 24, 2019 Originally published in 48 Hills. It’s not unusual for businesses to spend princely sums lobbying government to free them from…

Telecommunication

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A Nonprofit Alliance Becomes an Ally of Big Telecom
A Nonprofit Alliance Becomes an Ally of Big Telecom
Telecommunication

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Apr 27, 2019

These Four California Democrats Can Break Privacy

Nowadays, do 94% of Americans agree on anything? It sure doesn’t seem like it, but in fact there are a few things that we aren’t polarized about. One of these things is wanting tech companies to get our permission before they share our personal information. Bowing to overwhelming consensus, California’s…

Politics

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These Four California Democrats Can Break Privacy
These Four California Democrats Can Break Privacy
Politics

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Apr 7, 2019

Breaking The Deal To Sell You Your Privacy: Privacy For All

In a much-heralded backroom deal to end all backroom deals, the State of California launched the California Consumer Privacy Act or CCPA, the “American GDPR” in June of 2018. Days before a statewide ballot initiative was to qualify for the ballot, with high poll numbers and a growing industry slush…

Privacy

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Breaking The Deal To Sell You Your Privacy: Privacy For All
Breaking The Deal To Sell You Your Privacy: Privacy For All
Privacy

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Jan 28, 2019

How FEMA Blew Up A Wildlife Refuge 35 Times

Every year in September, around the anniversary of 9–11, Bay Area SWAT teams, along with occasional visitors from Bahrain, Hong Kong, Brazil or Israel, gather for the annual training exercise called Urban Shield. …

Environment

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How FEMA Blew Up A Wildlife Refuge 35 Times
How FEMA Blew Up A Wildlife Refuge 35 Times
Environment

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Dec 31, 2018

Intersectionality and Me: The Women’s March Suffering

Intersectionality and Me: The Women’s March Suffering Every once in a while something goes on in the world, and it has the interest level for you of a gory car crash; you can’t bear to watch and you can’t bear to look away. So with this week’s Women’s March blow-up…

Anti Semitism

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Intersectionality and Me: The Women’s March Suffering
Intersectionality and Me: The Women’s March Suffering
Anti Semitism

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Nov 21, 2018

Find Us One More Shot

Find us one more shot. According to a lawsuit filed in the Western District of New York federal court, those are the instructions the Rochester Police Department sent to Shotspotter, a manufacturer of gunshot detection sensors, in the evening following the shooting of Silvon Simmons on April 1, 2016. It…

Police

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Find Us One More Shot
Find Us One More Shot
Police

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Nov 7, 2018

A Firewall Fraying: Chronicle Election Coverage in 2018

According to a number of experts, and most of us on the natch, the 2018 midterm election has been one of the most hostile and partisan in years. …

Politics

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A Firewall Fraying: Chronicle Election Coverage in 2018
A Firewall Fraying: Chronicle Election Coverage in 2018
Politics

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Oct 31, 2018

The Purpose Of The Smart City Is To Kill Us

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean ….. It’s been a hell of a week. No doubt it was extra added if you happen to carry the last name that I was born with — Rosenberg. But virtually no one wants to be blown away for an identity that they can’t…

Smart Cities

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The Purpose Of The Smart City Is To Kill Us
The Purpose Of The Smart City Is To Kill Us
Smart Cities

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Oct 22, 2018

Notes From The Last Urban Shield As We Know It

On September 7th and 8th, I attended the Bay Area’s police militarization expo, Urban Shield. Urban Shield is a competition for the Bay Area’s SWAT teams, fire departments, and hazmat and emergency operations teams and a law enforcement equipment expo, which is funded by the Department of Homeland Security’s UASI…

Terrorism

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Notes From The Last Urban Shield As We Know It
Notes From The Last Urban Shield As We Know It
Terrorism

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Aug 2, 2018

Taming High Tech Law and Order in the Wild Wild West

I didn’t grow up in California. Instead I grew up in the relatively staid brick-lined streets of the Northeast, where history looks like pilgrim hats. I understood Blazing Saddles better than Stagecoach. But life can take you in some unexpected directions. I grew up to become a privacy advocate on…

Privacy

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Taming High Tech Law and Order in the Wild Wild West
Taming High Tech Law and Order in the Wild Wild West
Privacy

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Tracy Rosenberg

Tracy Rosenberg

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Executive Director, Media Alliance (www.media-alliance.org) and co-coordinator, Oakland Privacy (www.oaklandprivacy.org).

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