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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/TargetTransaction.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126759\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/TargetTransaction.jpg\" alt=\"A customer prepares to sign a credit card slip at a Target store on December 19, 2013 in Miami. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A customer prepares to sign a credit card slip at a Target store on Dec. 19, 2013 in Miami. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/135390124&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Feb. 18, the California Assembly Judiciary and Assembly Banking and Finance Committees will gather for a joint hearing to discuss one of the more technologically complex problems the Legislature has tried to tackle: data security breaches of companies such as Target, Neiman Marcus and Yahoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first two weeks of December 2013, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/19/255415230/breach-at-target-stores-may-affect-40-million-card-accounts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nearly 40 million Target customers might have had credit or debit card information stolen\u003c/a> and another 70 million had personal information such as emails and addresses taken in the breach. Yahoo email accounts were hacked in late January. And Neiman Marcus revealed in January that 1.1 million credit cards were infected with malware last summer, resulting in at least 2,400 cards being used fraudulently. One of the most recent security breaches is believed to involve data from the company that manages franchises for Marriott, Hilton and Starwood Hotels, \u003ca href=\"White%20Lodging,%20which%20manages%20hotel%20franchises%20for%20chains%20like%20Marriott,%20Hilton%20and%20Starwood%20Hotels,\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the New York Times.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think consumers are frightened,” said Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, who chairs the judiciary committee, particularly in light of how much data that companies typically collect now. Wieckowski spoke with KQED’s Joshua Johnson about the hearing. For the lawmakers and for worried consumers, he said, there’s really just one question: “How is California law sufficient to protect them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current state law focuses heavily on ensuring that retailers encrypt sensitive data, such as credit card numbers. Wieckowski said that the Legislature first passed a law in 2003 to require that consumers be notified if their data was hacked. Not much thought was put in, at the time, about data that didn’t need to be encrypted. But since that law was passed, Wieckowski said, “We’ve learned that maybe 70 million people’s personal data that Target is just assembling and holding — it’s not part of the point of sale. The hackers were able to get into their database and use this data.” While that kind of data — emails, phone numbers, addresses — tends to be viewed as not as sensitive as credit card numbers, it can affect credit reports and people’s lives, said Wieckowski. “Maybe a third of these people can be vulnerable to identity theft.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committees’ hearing will primarily feature speakers from the California Retailers Association, Visa and MasterCard, as well as consumer advocates. Notably, Target and Neiman Marcus representatives will be absent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Wieckowski, both retailers were invited but turned down the invitation because of their own “ongoing investigations,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the hearing will be focused on simply understanding the nature of the breaches, what can be done to minimize the harm and looking forward to where hackers are going. This can be challenging when payment methods, hacking techniques and technology are constantly changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe these breaches are inevitable,” said Wieckowski. “So maybe the question we need to ask (retailers) is what is the personal data they’re collecting on us?” Other states, like Minnesota, have laws that regulate how long a company can hold onto a consumer’s data. California could, theoretically, minimize that time period and change how personal data, which isn’t currently necessarily encrypted, has to be stored. In California, these kinds of data breaches are overseen by the attorney general’s office, but they can enforce only current California law. “I think our current laws are a bit dated. 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(Noam Eshel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youthuprising.org/\">Youth UpRising\u003c/a> is a community center on East Oakland's MacArthur Boulevard — an oasis for children and young adults in an area afflicted with poverty, unemployment and nearly daily shootings. They come here after school to escape the violence and, more important, to develop job skills and participate in the organization's wide array of arts and education programs. One of those programs, an industry-backed pilot called Project A-Game, teaches kids how to make video games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a back room, a handful of kids are squished around computers working on their game, which is called \"Mr. Platformer.\" It sounds and looks like an old Nintendo game. Think Mario Brothers from the '80s, but it wasn't made decades ago. These five kids built it using modern game-making software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morris Jackson is mixing the sounds for \"Mr. Platformer\" — things like the digital chime of a coin being picked up, a laser being shot, and that unmistakable warble of a power-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I signed up because I love video games, always did,” he says, “I have been playing since I was a few months old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I don't know if it actually qualifies as playing, but Morris Jackson's family used to at least put the controller in his hands and let him push the buttons. Now he's 15 and wants to be a professional DJ. But if that doesn't pan out, he says he might try and do sound design for video games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/133638496&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Platformer' isn't like the realistic shooting games Morris plays at home. It's old school. You have to navigate through 2-D levels and avoid pixelated monsters. It's the kind of game that Glen McKnight, the class instructor, fell in love with 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These kids grew up on games,” he says, “kind of like I did, and that's kind of why I am in the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKnight works for a small game studio, and he has been hired on here as an instructor to impart his game-building know-how. Video games, he says, could be a bridge to the tech world for these kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's tough for a lot of our parents to realize that games (their kids) are addictively playing every day actually have the potential for a career,” McKnight says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Introducing new career ideas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project A-Game is funded by \u003ca href=\"http://www.theesa.com/newsroom/release_detail.asp?releaseID=213\" target=\"_blank\">a grant\u003c/a> from the California Endowment and the Entertainment Software Association, a trade organization for the gaming industry. The program doesn't place kids directly into tech jobs, but it does expose them to video game career opportunities they have probably never thought about — things like sound engineering and designing game levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darius Reed, for example, didn't sign up because he loves technology. He likes to draw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Darius, he's really an artist,” McKnight says. “He had no affinity for the technical stuff, that's not what he was interested in, but he's seen how his characters come alive inside of levels.” \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Census numbers show that Latinos and African-Americans in the United States hold only between 6 and 7 percent of science and technology jobs. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Reed used Photoshop to draw the game's hero -- a white boxy character with a little top hat and a skinny red tie. “Since we are just going for something simple,” he says, “I just made him look like a mister, you know like somebody who is going to work, like a guy who works in the office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An office job in the tech industry isn't something these kids thought much about before this class. Morris, the aspiring DJ, says he had never even talked with anyone in the tech industry. His instructor, McKnight, is the first person he has ever met with a tech job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Census numbers show that Latinos and African-Americans have been consistently underrepresented in science and technology jobs, holding between 6 percent and 7 percent nationally. A San Jose Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_22094415/asian-workers-now-dominate-silicon-valley-tech-jobs\">analysis\u003c/a> confirms a similar percentage for Bay Area tech jobs, even though Latinos and African-Americans account for almost a third of the region's population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>Arturo Arechiga says the goal is to try and find ways to change that percentage. Arechiga directs Project A-Game at Youth UpRising. 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It’s becoming much easier to get content for free and people are less apt to want to pay for it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acworth is founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.kink.com/k/?c=1\">Kink.com\u003c/a>, a San Francisco fetish porn conglomerate that had 205 million views last year alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the late 1990s, Acworth was getting his Ph.D. in finance at Columbia University. He realized there was lots of money to be made in streaming sex. So he started video shoots right out of his own room. “You honestly couldn’t add the sites fast enough. 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"content": "\u003cp>Today on Bay Area Bus Wars ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-125276\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/genentech-bus-e1391616229791.jpg\" alt=\"genentech bus\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Lancour/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's the Genentech bus, transporting passengers through the Marina this morning on its way to the company's South San Francisco office. The idea presumably being that the message \"This bus removes 120 cars from your commute everyday\" will make drivers stuck behind the lumbering vehicle think it's a small price to pay for fighting climate change -- although, as pointed out by the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/02/05/new-genentech-bus-ads-removes-120-cars-every-day-2/\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blog/english-mistakes/everyday-vs-every-day/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Everyday\" should be \"every day.\"\u003c/a> So, for every two protesters that sentiment removes from the streets, one livid English teacher will emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Genentech spokesperson told the Chron that the new slogan, which started appearing in December, isn't a response to the multiple \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/google-buses/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area protests against the Google bus\u003c/a>, which has become a symbol of privilege in a time when many blame the influx of new tech workers for evictions and high housing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some, of course, have made the very argument that the new Genentech slogan does: The buses are a great idea environmentally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year ago, local author Rebecca Solnit wrote one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">seminal broadsides\u003c/a> against the buses in the \"London Review of Books.\" As News Fix's Dan Brekke \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/07/good-read/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote last month\u003c/a>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Solnit’s piece was a sort of declaration that the buses are a key part of the engine remaking the city in a particularly unfriendly way for anyone not employed with the technology industry or engaged in some other lucrative enterprise. “Most of them are gleaming white,” she wrote in opening the essay, “with dark-tinted windows, like limousines, and some days I think of them as the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In response, Ben Adler of Grist, an environmentalist news site, \u003ca href=\"http://grist.org/cities/hey-protester-leave-those-google-buses-alone/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote a critique\u003c/a> of that line of argument ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Solnit’s complaint that Google thinks its employees are too important to “drive themselves” is backward and nonsensical. Driving in one’s own private car is far more elitist than sharing a bus with one’s coworkers. It is also vastly worse for the environment. The buses take cars off the road. Fewer cars mean less traffic, and less idling in traffic, which is especially polluting.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Solnit hit back last month with another essay, called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/rebecca-solnit-resisting-monoculture/\" target=\"_blank\">Resisting Monoculture\u003c/a>,\" in the magazine \"Guernica.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Most people (including Adler at one point in his all-over-the-place piece) wonder why people who work 40 miles away should travel those 80 miles daily down and back one of the more congested freeways around. The buses encourage them to pursue this geographical ridiculousness. And thus come the well-paid engineers to San Francisco, and thus go the longtime activists, idealists, artists, teachers, plumbers, all the less-well-paid people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the surface, perhaps, any ride-sharing program may seem green and community-building, but the effects of the Google bus on the ecosystem of San Francisco are complicated. One of the organizers of the Google bus blockade last month just wrote me, in response to Adler’s piece, “The idea that all of the techies would choose to live in SF and drive to Silicon Valley if not for the buses is a total exaggeration. Half the techies surveyed by the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency said they wouldn’t drive by themselves (only 3% would carpool) & 31% said they wouldn’t be able to make the trip at all according to info I found in SFMTA’s Private Commuter Shuttles Policy Draft Proposal. The proposal also notes the ‘Google’ buses’ average dwell time (at bus stops) is 3x that of the Muni.” So the buses aren’t creating greener transit for people who’d live here anyway. They’re also enabling long-distance commuters who wouldn’t live here otherwise.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The controversy is so intense that master's candidates have been doing their theses on it. Here's one from a UC Berkeley student called \"\u003ca href=\"http://svenworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Goldman_PRFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Francisco's Dotcom Boom 2.0\u003c/a>.\" And here's a more recent one from UC Berkeley called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.danielledai.com/academic/dai-weinzimmer-shuttles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Riding First Class: Impacts of Silicon Valley Shuttles on Commute & Residential Location Choice\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter asked and answered the question: \"Does the provision of shuttles and knowledge of shuttle stop locations influence commute mode and residential location choice? In short – yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The data show that nearly half of current shuttle riders would drive alone if the shuttles were not provided, supporting the positive impacts of the shuttles provided, on environmental and congestion reduction goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, since 20% say they would use public transit were the\u003cbr>\nshuttles not available, the shuttles do have an impact on public transit ridership and finances. With regards to residential choices, the data indicate that many are choosing to live farther away from their workplace than they otherwise would. Additionally, 22% of shuttle riders have already moved farther from their jobs since accepting their offer, suggesting that shuttles enable some commuters to live in San Francisco who would otherwise live closer to work.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate continues ...\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Today on Bay Area Bus Wars ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-125276\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/genentech-bus-e1391616229791.jpg\" alt=\"genentech bus\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Lancour/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's the Genentech bus, transporting passengers through the Marina this morning on its way to the company's South San Francisco office. The idea presumably being that the message \"This bus removes 120 cars from your commute everyday\" will make drivers stuck behind the lumbering vehicle think it's a small price to pay for fighting climate change -- although, as pointed out by the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/02/05/new-genentech-bus-ads-removes-120-cars-every-day-2/\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blog/english-mistakes/everyday-vs-every-day/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Everyday\" should be \"every day.\"\u003c/a> So, for every two protesters that sentiment removes from the streets, one livid English teacher will emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Genentech spokesperson told the Chron that the new slogan, which started appearing in December, isn't a response to the multiple \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/google-buses/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area protests against the Google bus\u003c/a>, which has become a symbol of privilege in a time when many blame the influx of new tech workers for evictions and high housing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some, of course, have made the very argument that the new Genentech slogan does: The buses are a great idea environmentally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year ago, local author Rebecca Solnit wrote one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\">seminal broadsides\u003c/a> against the buses in the \"London Review of Books.\" As News Fix's Dan Brekke \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/07/good-read/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote last month\u003c/a>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Solnit’s piece was a sort of declaration that the buses are a key part of the engine remaking the city in a particularly unfriendly way for anyone not employed with the technology industry or engaged in some other lucrative enterprise. “Most of them are gleaming white,” she wrote in opening the essay, “with dark-tinted windows, like limousines, and some days I think of them as the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In response, Ben Adler of Grist, an environmentalist news site, \u003ca href=\"http://grist.org/cities/hey-protester-leave-those-google-buses-alone/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote a critique\u003c/a> of that line of argument ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Solnit’s complaint that Google thinks its employees are too important to “drive themselves” is backward and nonsensical. Driving in one’s own private car is far more elitist than sharing a bus with one’s coworkers. It is also vastly worse for the environment. The buses take cars off the road. Fewer cars mean less traffic, and less idling in traffic, which is especially polluting.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Solnit hit back last month with another essay, called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/rebecca-solnit-resisting-monoculture/\" target=\"_blank\">Resisting Monoculture\u003c/a>,\" in the magazine \"Guernica.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Most people (including Adler at one point in his all-over-the-place piece) wonder why people who work 40 miles away should travel those 80 miles daily down and back one of the more congested freeways around. The buses encourage them to pursue this geographical ridiculousness. And thus come the well-paid engineers to San Francisco, and thus go the longtime activists, idealists, artists, teachers, plumbers, all the less-well-paid people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the surface, perhaps, any ride-sharing program may seem green and community-building, but the effects of the Google bus on the ecosystem of San Francisco are complicated. One of the organizers of the Google bus blockade last month just wrote me, in response to Adler’s piece, “The idea that all of the techies would choose to live in SF and drive to Silicon Valley if not for the buses is a total exaggeration. Half the techies surveyed by the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency said they wouldn’t drive by themselves (only 3% would carpool) & 31% said they wouldn’t be able to make the trip at all according to info I found in SFMTA’s Private Commuter Shuttles Policy Draft Proposal. The proposal also notes the ‘Google’ buses’ average dwell time (at bus stops) is 3x that of the Muni.” So the buses aren’t creating greener transit for people who’d live here anyway. They’re also enabling long-distance commuters who wouldn’t live here otherwise.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The controversy is so intense that master's candidates have been doing their theses on it. Here's one from a UC Berkeley student called \"\u003ca href=\"http://svenworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Goldman_PRFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Francisco's Dotcom Boom 2.0\u003c/a>.\" And here's a more recent one from UC Berkeley called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.danielledai.com/academic/dai-weinzimmer-shuttles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Riding First Class: Impacts of Silicon Valley Shuttles on Commute & Residential Location Choice\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Activists fear it’ll become a tool for \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-real-purpose-of-oaklands-surveillance-center/Content?oid=3789230\">spying\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these two sides disagree, starkly, they both assume one thing: that the surveillance center will actually work. But is that true? Experts in Silicon Valley’s surveillance industry say it’s more like science fiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the money for the surveillance center is coming from the Department of Homeland Security. It’s an anti-terrorism grant to protect the harbor. So City Councilman Dan Kalb didn’t get what all the controversy was about, if the center was just going to pull camera feeds from the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing, he asked the rhetorical question: “This is all on port property, including airport, all of port property, right? It’s not the rest of the city?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City staff explained it is the rest of the city — thousands of live feeds, even from the Coliseum. But no cameras would go into people’s living rooms. So Kalb gave the nod. “All right, sounds good to me!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That exchange happened at a council meeting a few months back. The center has been five years in the making. It’s supposed to go live this summer. But it doesn’t sound so good to experts in Silicon Valley who specialize in surveillance. With just a cursory look at the project, they say, the city is making some textbook mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Data overload\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take data overload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you start by grabbing whatever data you can find and then hoping to get insight out of it later, it becomes a very drawn-out expensive process,” says Feris Rifai, “and frankly a bit of an upside-down approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rifai is CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://www.baydynamics.com/\">Bay Dynamics\u003c/a>, a San Francisco company that builds big data tools for big banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials paint this futuristic picture of supercomputers pulling in feeds from cameras, gunshot detectors, license plate readers, 911 calls, criminal records. Analysts sitting in front of giant monitors will scan data round the clock, cross-reference GPS coordinates and email real-time reports to first responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/133435454&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds very familiar, like the sci-fi hit “\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_%28film%29\">Minority Report\u003c/a>” with Tom Cruise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollywood aside, back in Oakland, the city’s chief technology officer Ahsan Baig sums up the vision: “From child abduction to robbery to overturned truck, this whole process is going to automate this whole thing. So everything is going to be available right in front of you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rifai says big data doesn’t work that way. It takes some focus. And given the lack of focus in Oakland, several experts say there’s a good chance the city will spend a lot more than $1.25 million (the amount from Homeland Security).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From our experience with organizations collecting everything and then trying to figure out what to do with it,” Firai says, “it is going to be a costly project beyond what the federal money they’ve secured provides them today. So that’s our prediction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Basic contradictions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cost isn’t the only issue. There’s a lot of confusion in the core team — even with simple things like hours of operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port of Oakland is not staffed 24 hours a day. As Chief Michael O’Brien explains, if an alarm goes off, say at 4 a.m., no one’s there to check if it’s an organized crime gang or a stray cat. With a central hub, police and firefighters can be the port’s eyes. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> ‘People look for technological silver bullets to solve problems, when often times there are very serious policy, legal and societal issues that are really the problems.’ \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>O’Brien says, “The plan is to have a 24/7 operation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city’s chief of emergency services, Renee Domingo, assumes the opposite. “We envision that there’s a dark period when there’s nothing going on and rather than having 24 hours, we’re trying to be as efficient as possible in terms of the staffing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That dark period would be around 4 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In-house expertise\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domingo says the surveillance center is one of the most ambitious projects Oakland has undertaken to reduce crime. Everyone wants a safer city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she’s still not sure if the top dog on this project will be a high-ranking public official or a private contractor. Domingo says employees from the city will make up most of the staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could be record-keepers, they could be emergency planning coordinators, maybe retired dispatch people — people that have worked in dispatch centers,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael McNerney, a former cyber-advisor at the Department of Defense, thinks that is practically infeasible. “Knowing what you’re looking at is a specialized skill set. So these things tend to work best when you have specialized professionals who do this for a living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNerney, now based in Palo Alto, is a fan of surveillance centers. He’s helped build and maintain military ones. 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