Privacy
Privacy is a fundamental human right. The City of Portland is implementing its Privacy and Information Protection Principles to become better stewards of public data.
Below you’ll find information about these efforts, policies and tools being developed by Smart City PDX.
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Helps us building the City of Portland’s surveillance technologies inventory. Learn about this process and how you can submit your input via an online survey. Participation of all Portlanders and friends of Portland is important to assure responsible use of technology.
The City of Portland Surveillance technologies Policy has been submitted to the City revision process. You can download the proposed policy and additional materials in this blog post.
This is a report that includes main public feedback and comments, as of May 10, 2022, shared through public events organized as part of the surveillance technologies policy development.
This is the public invitation for the participatory policy making process that the City of Portland’s Smart City PDX program and the Office of Equity and Human Rights are organizing. The goal of these events is the development of a draft of the City’s surveillance technologies policy.
Smart City PDX submits comments to the US Office of Science and Technology Policy RFI on use of biometric information in government.
The Smart City PDX team and the Office of Equity and Human Rights coordinated a Portland City Council work session on surveillance technologies. The work session included how the cities of Seattle and Oakland manage surveillance technologies. Community members shared some impacts and recommendations on how the City can protect residents’ and visitors’ digital rights.
A co-design event organized last December 13, 2021 tried to be a space for open discussion and collaboration to understand how surveillance technologies impact Portlanders. This post is a general summary of the findings and comments. Detailed analysis and raw comments are also accessible to download.
This blog post releases a series of videos from the participation of community advocates on digital justice discussing surveillance technologies impacts. Direct links to the videos are provided.
This report is in compliance with the ordinance ban on use of face recognition technologies by City bureaus. None of the City bureaus reporting back to Smart City PDX use face recognition technologies as of April 16, 2021.
The City of Portland is centering impacted community voices in the development of the City’s comprehensive surveillance policy using participatory policy making. Twenty three community members from a diverse set of local organizations provided City staff with input and feedback towards a more equitable public engagement in a community discussion held in June of 2021. This blog post summarizes some key takeaways from this event.
The City of Portland's leadership opposes the use of face recognition to collect biometric information from international travelers.
The City’s surveillance technologies policy passed on February 1 and directs BPS’s Smart City PDX program to create a citywide inventory of surveillance technologies and implement privacy impact assessments in procurement.