On Monday, April 15th, we co-hosted another event with Portland’s Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays, this time on Portland’s Surveillance Inventory Draft. At the event, Hector Dominguez, Open Data Coordinator at Smart City PDX, joined us to discuss the the draft surveillance technology inventory specification and to share details of how you can still give input into…
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AI governance
On February 20th, we co-hosted an event called How governments are making AI more responsible, fair and explainable with Portland’s Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays. Kate Kaye, deputy director of World Privacy Forum, joined us to discuss the organization’s recently-released report on AI Governance. The report, which was co-authored by Pam Dixon, is the result of a…
AI in Education
On Monday, January 29th, at 6 PM PST, we’ll be teaming up with Portland’s Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays for an event called The AI Education Movement: Youth, Students, and Everyone Else. Presenters Maansi Singh, Sahana Srinivasan, and Julianne Huang, who are all members of the Oregon chapter of Encode Justice, will discuss how Artificial Intelligence is…
Winter 2022 newsletter now available!
Read the latest version of our newsletter here: https://pdxprivacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Winter-2022-Newsletter.pdf
Letter to PayPal and Venmo
Today, we joined 20+ other digital rights organizations in calling on @Venmo and @PayPal to publish regular transparency reports and adopt due process around account closures. We asked that PayPal and Venmo be clear about their intentions and reasons for censoring users. Read our press release: https://www.pdxprivacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/paypal-venmo-press-release-061521.pdf
Surveillance ordinance panel discussion
PDX Privacy and Portland’s Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays co-hosted an online panel discussion about surveillance ordinances on March 15th. Panelists were Renard Bridgewater, with Eye on Surveillance in New Orleans, Kade Crockford of the ACLU Massachusetts, Tracy Rosenberg from both Media Alliance and Oakland Privacy, and Nathan “nash” Sheard from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Since the…
Digital Justice and Surveillance
On Monday, February 22nd, Hector Dominguez, of Smart City PDX, gave a presentation to Portland’s Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays about the City of Portland’s efforts towards achieving digital justice in Portland and rethinking surveillance. At the meeting, he explained how Smart City PDX is working to both define digital justice and to include that definition in…
City of Portland passes facial recognition bans
On Wednesday, September 9th, the Portland City Council unanimously passed two facial recognition ban ordinances: one that addresses the use of the technology by City bureaus and a second that addresses use by private entities in places of public accommodation. With the adoption of the public ban, Portland joined fourteen other cities that had already…