Two alerts for this week: Flock surveillance, defending our Somali communities

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Dec 7, 2025, 1:48:24 PM12/7/25

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Hi Labor Center community

Today at 1pm, the City Heights Community Defense Committee has called an emergency press conference in defense of our Somali communities against the hatred directed at them by the federal government. (Flyer below)

On Tuesday 2pm, City Council votes on whether to approve and continue using the Flock license plate reader surveillance system. Flock scans and stores every single one of our license plates and stores them on the private cloud. They already violated City use policies by breaching San Diego's license plate data for two weeks, leading to 13,000 global searches (Times of SD). San Diego TRUST has a collection of information

Post a public comment for the City Council meeting on Tuesday now. Look for tips below!

Public comment form: Agenda Item 331, Oppose
Agenda

Come to San Diego City Council on December 9 at 2pm to make sure they vote NO!

City Hall
202 C St, San Diego, CA 92101 12th Floor Virtual Participation: https://sandiego.gov/councilmtg To join by telephone: Dial 1-669 254 5252 + input Webinar ID: 160 238 7663 More detailed instructions

Thank you, and I hope you're having a good weekend,

Lilly

Lilly Irani

Associate Professor, Communication & Science Studies

Faculty Director, UC San Diego Labor Center

Faculty, Design Lab

Affiliate Faculty, Computer Science

Member, Institute for Practical Ethics

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Books: Notes Towards Digital Workers Inquiry (Common Notions, 2025) | Redacted (Taller California 2021) | Chasing Innovation (Princeton University Press 2019)