County board supervisor Joe Simitian’s Santa Clara office is considered to be the epicenter of a regulation storm that privacy advocates call “one of the broadest anti-surveillance measures being considered anywhere in the U.S.,” the Guardian reports. While this particular fight is new, the push for privacy on Simitian’s part is not. “But he said that someone has to remain on guard,” the report states. “If the electorate waits to care about privacy only after it’s gone, it’s probably too late, he said.” The changing surveillance landscape “is not something that happens overnight,” Simitian said. “This is a steady drip of the erosion of the right to privacy.”
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