Oakland, California's Privacy Advisory Commission has unanimously passed its “Surveillance and Community Safety Ordinance," thus transferring it to the Oakland City Council for consideration in a move hailed by privacy advocates, Ars Technica reports. "You are ahead of most of your peers across the country, and you are paving the way for them,” said Center for Democracy and Technology CEO Nuala O’Connor, CIPP/G, CIPP/US, to the commission. "The draft ordinance may still be subject to minor changes before being adopted by the city council, particularly as to how it will be enforced," the report states. However, University of California, Berkeley's Catherine Crump called the ordinance draft "thorough, clear, comprehensive, and has the potential to be adopted nationwide.”
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