Last year, the City of Portland Auditor’s Office performed an audit of police surveillance used in the city, and we participated by providing input. The audit objective was to answer the question “Did police gather intelligence and conduct criminal investigations in a manner that protected privacy and civil liberties during the protests that occurred between…
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
Portland City Council Surveillance Work Session
Portland City Council will hold a work session on surveillance and digital justice on January 11, 2022 at 9:30 AM PST. Speakers at this meeting will inform City Council members about the impacts of surveillance technologies on local communities, describe how other cities have developed policies to regulate surveillance technology use, and discuss potential strategies…
Surveillance technologies policy development codesign event
On Monday, December 13th, we teamed up with Smart City PDX, Portland’s Office of Equity and Human Rights, and Cascadia Partners to bring the community together tor an online surveillance technologies policy codesign event. The City of Portland is currently developing a comprehensive surveillance and privacy policy in order to create transparency and accountability processes…
Fall newsletter
The first edition of our periodic newsletter is now available! In it, we introduce ourselves and share some of the work we’ve been doing. To sign up for the newsletter, send a blank email with the subject heading “Subscribe” to newsletter@pdxprivacy.org, or you can read it here: https://pdxprivacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fall-2021-Newsletter-updated-091221.pdf
TA3M Privacy Workshop Session 3
This video is the last of a 3-part privacy workshop we did at Portland’s Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays on three consecutive Mondays in June — 14th, 21st, and 28th. AJ Rice was the presenter for all three sessions. AJ is a privacy advocate and the Founder & CEO of Privo Mobile and author of the privacy…
TA3M Privacy Workshop Session 2
This video is the second of a 3-part privacy workshop we did at Portland’s Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays on three consecutive Mondays in June — 14th, 21st, and 28th. AJ Rice was the presenter for all three sessions. AJ is a privacy advocate and the Founder & CEO of Privo Mobile and author of the privacy…
TA3M Privacy Workshop Session 1
This video is the first of a 3-part privacy workshop we did at Portland’s Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays on three consecutive Mondays in June — 14th, 21st, and 28th. AJ Rice was the presenter for all three sessions. AJ is a privacy advocate and the Founder & CEO of Privo Mobile and author of the privacy…
June privacy workshop
During the month of June, we held a 3-part privacy workshop at Portland’s Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays on three consecutive Mondays—June 14th, 21st, and 28th. AJ Rice was the presenter for all three sessions and discussed the following topics: All sessions included an interactive portion where attendees were able to apply the information to their own…
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