Los Angeles: Collecting Personal Data in Public Spaces

Letter to City of LA Re Privacy Concerns and Other Issues Raised by Sidewalk & Transit Amenities Program from CBLA, May 2022

Lawsuit Filed by CBLA Seeking to Rescind Sidewalk & Transit Amenities Program and Accompanying Ordinance, October 2022

PRIVACY LEGISLATION

SB 690: “A Brazen Attempt to Let Corporations Spy on Us in Secret” from Electronic Frontier Foundation, June 2025

ALERT: SB 690 Threatens the Privacy of All Californians, from CBLA June 2026

Letter to California Legislature Re AB 642: Facial Recognition Technology/Law Enforcement from CBLA, March 2023

Privacy under attack across the u.s.

How Digital Billboards Target Passersby (Hint:It's Cellphone Data) from NPR, February 2020

Digital Billboards Are Tracking You from Consumer Reports, November 2019

Data Broker LexisNexis Sued for Helping ICE Target Immigrant Communities from Democracy Now, August 2022

Data Brokerage and Threats to US Privacy and Security Testimony to US Senate Finance Committee, December 2021

Disparate Impact in Big Data Policing from Georgia Law Review, 2018

Hackers May Have Stolen the Social Security Numbers of Every American from LA Times, August 2024