In a Q&A with Ars Technica, Oakland, CA, Mayor Libby Schaaf discusses the balance between privacy and surveillance. “It’s really frustrating,” she explains. “On one hand we have an obligation to use tools that can save lives, can create safety, can prevent harm. And yet at the same time we have an obligation to respect and protect the privacy of the people who live here. And we are not doing a good job of reconciling those two needs.” To accomplish that task, she says, the city needs its “brilliant minds” to step up and help and “not just say no, but help us say how, when, why and where.”
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