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The Electronic Frontier Alliance is made up of more than seventy groups of concerned community members, often including workers in the tech industry who see issues of the industry from the inside. One of the Alliance’s most active members is PDX Privacy, a Portland-based privacy group whose membership advocates for local and state privacy protections, and overlaps with Portland’s Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays, a year-round campaign of workshops, speakers, and panels.
Here, the EFF Organizing Team talks to three members of PDX Privacy about how they started, and what they’ve learned fighting for privacy through both advocacy and popular education.
What is PDX privacy?
Chris: We’re a group of local residents who really care about privacy. We’re trying to educate the community to advocate for privacy centric policies and anti-surveillance policies.
AJ: We’re all volunteers, and, in addition to advocating for public policy and changes in our community, a big part of what we do is also to educate people in our community about some of the local issues related to privacy, how people are surveilling us, why privacy is important. And, some specific things going on in our community that they can advocate for.
How did PDX privacy start?
Chris: It started back in 2017. At that point it was me with a Twitter account. When the 2016 election happened, it meant that privacy was now on the shelf for a while. I didn’t want that to happen. So, I wanted to keep working on the community control over police surveillance objective. I didn’t really know how to go about that at first but I just started looking for people who also cared about it, and then there were a few, and then we got Michael and AJ in there.
AJ: I joined the group in the Summer of 2018. I think I just found it on kind of a local aggregator for tech related events, but I came to a meeting of the TA3M that Chris hosted and found out about this PDX Privacy group, and wanted to help out.
Michael: Around late 2017, I started to become really passionate about these privacy-related issues, and I happened to find a TA3M
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