May 27, 2014 - 5:30pm PDT
Sacramento Press Club, Beatnik Studios: 723 S St., Sacramento

EFF Senior Staff Attorney, Jennifer Lynch, will be speaking at a Sacramento Press Club-sponsored event about local surveillance with Center for Investigative Reporting journalists Andrew Becker and Robert Salladay.

With much of the world's attention focused on the NSA and the trove of leaks provided by Edward Snowden, a much quieter revolution is happening across the country. In California, law enforcement agencies are enthusiastically embracing a variety of tools to collect metadata on everyone they can. The tools – which range from automated license-plate readers to facial recognition to social media monitoring systems – greatly expand the data and databases officers have at their fingertips. Law enforcement agencies say many of the technologies are already making it easier to solve – and in some cases prevent – crimes. But privacy advocates argue that these expanded databases are becoming dragnets increasingly populated with information about law-abiding citizens.

Join us as we watch The State of Surveillance, a short documentary produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting, and discuss what all of this means for you.

RSVP on the Press Club website.

WHEN: Tuesday, May 27 from 5:30-8 p.m. Program from 6-7 p.m., followed by hosted appetizers, beer and wine.

WHERE: Beatnik Studios: 723 S St., Sacramento

RSVP: Tickets are $15 for Sacramento Press Club members, $20 for nonmembers and $5 for students