Domain Awareness Center (DAC)

https://thebaffler.com/latest/oakland-surveillance-levine

There is big money in surveillance in the city.  It is the state Fusion Center extending down to the local level.  The state Fusion Center is an extension down from Federal security agencies.  It is all connected.  The same sensor feeds that go to the DAC are the feeds sought by state and federal level agencies.  It is the "last mile" to connect up to what they already receive on an individual mass data total awareness plan that drives the capture, monitoring and recording of personally identifiable communications.

While the all invasive, pervasive intelligence gathering system is obviously assembling itself piece by piece its existence is something that is intentionally obscured.  It is for out own good because...we can't handle the truth of what it take so to defend ourselves from the bad guys.  Don't ask what is being done, don't tell.

It is one thing for the public to demand surveillance for its own protection.  It is another for authorities to decide that it is needed for public safety and impose it.  To impose it and not tell the public exactly what is being collected.  One of the cornerstones of intelligence is not to let the enemy know capabilities.  The enemy in this case is the public because among the public are the real enemies of our society.  Those criminals should never know the capabilities because they can take counter measures.

Individuals that we wish to protect the public from are not that smart in the first place.  Institutions such as Wells Fargo are that smart and know exactly how to avoid the law and evade it.  Institutions should be surveilled.  Their private records entered by stealth by those that seek to protect us from public public enemies.  Maybe they are?  I hope so. Don't ask don't tell..........

"Plans for this surveillance center had been roiling city politics for months, and the outrage was now making its presence felt. Residents, religious leaders, labor activists, retired politicians, masked “black bloc” anarchists, and reps from the American Civil Liberties Union—they were all in attendance, rubbing shoulder to shoulder with a group of dedicated local activists who had banded together to stop the DAC. A nervous, bespectacled city official in a tan suit took the podium to reassure the agitated crowd that the Domain Awareness Center was designed to protect them—not spy on them. “This is not a fusion center. We have no agreements with the NSA or the CIA or the FBI to access our databases,” he said."

Of Course there are no agreements with Federal or State level intelligence entities.  I don't have and agreement with them to share the contents of all my emails and other personal information that may be gathered relating to me by local government entities gathering "total information" on the public to fight street crime.  Local government is using the same stuff made for the Federal and State agencies.
It is all on a "need to know" basis.  We do not need to know.  They know for us.

"Oakland had initially contracted out development of the DAC to the Science Applications International Corporation, a massive California-based military contractor that does so much work for the National Security Agency that it is known in the intelligence business as “NSA West.” The company is also a major CIA contractor, involved in everything from monitoring agency employees as part of the agency’s “insider threat” programs to running the CIA’s drone assassination fleet. Multiple Oakland residents came up to blast the city’s decision to partner with a company that was such an integral part of the U.S. military and intelligence apparatus. “SAIC facilitates the telecommunications for the drone program in Afghanistan that’s murdered over a thousand innocent civilians, including children,” said a man in a black sweater. “And this is the company you chose?”

SAIC?  I'm suprised!  Nobody knows who or what SAIC is.  Only a major contractor to intelligence agencies!  People who want to know can find it all on the internet, even a man in a black sweater.  Black sweater?  Is that a dog whistle for hoodie?