“See the bomb robot is interesting because, until it blew someone up, and the robot itself was seen as a weapon, bomb robots were pretty non-controversial, ya know? Everyone was in agreement that sending a robot in to diffuse a bomb was going to save a human (potentially). It was a no brainer. But now that we realize those bomb robots can detonate bombs themselves and blow people up… that they are literally ROBOTS with BOMBS themselves – that can kill you – that changes things a bit, right? Suddenly it’s like “whoa,” should every Police Department have one of these things, and what kind of safety training is involved? Everything needs to be reconsidered.”
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Lisa Rein interviewing Tracy Rosenberg at MONDO 2000. How a little “working group” stopped Oakland from becoming a mini-fusion center for the Department of Homeland Security.
How The Occupy Oakland Privacy Working Group became Oakland Privacy