Winter 2022 newsletter now available!

A new edition of our newsletter is now available. In it, we talk about surveillance in Portland, the work we’ve been doing, and how you can get involved. To sign up for our periodic newsletter, a blank email with a subject heading of “Subscribe” to newsletter@pdxprivacy.org, or you can read it here: https://www.pdxprivacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Winter-2022-Newsletter.pdf

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…

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…