Press Releases: August 2022

surveillance cameras spying on protestors

EFF & ACLU Brief: SFPD Violated Surveillance Law by Spying on Protests for Black Lives

SAN FRANCISCO–San Francisco police violated the city’s surveillance technology law by tapping into a private surveillance camera network to spy on demonstrators protesting the 2020 police murder of George Floyd, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California (ACLU) told a state appeals court...