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

Police used private network of 300 surveillance cameras to spy on George Floyd protests in 2020, plaintiffs tell appeals court.

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 in a brief filed Monday.

San Francisco’s ordinance requires …

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