Name: The State of Surveillance in Portland (and Beyond): A Threat Assessment
Start: 2025-11-17T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-17T19:30:00-08:00
Location: Taborspace

*(This is a hybrid event both in person and online. **Online link will be posted the day of the event!)***

**Data is collected on us every day** \- from license\-plate numbers scanned by cameras throughout our cities\, to location data stored by wireless providers and the apps installed on our phones \- and it is often not clear how that data is shared\, where it is stored\, or how it can be used\.
With the expansion of ICE and the proliferation of surveillance tools available to the federal government, there is a real threat that the personal data of Portlanders could be used against us.

**Please join us on Monday, November 17th** to discuss important questions, including:

* What kind of surveillance and data-collection is the federal government engaged in currently, and how could it affect at-risk groups?
* What kind of data is already stored on us, and how could be it be shared without our knowledge or consent?
* How is the city of Portland responding, and how can we protect ourselves and each other, moving forward?

This meeting is co-hosted by Portland's TA3M and PDX Privacy.

**Speaker bios:**

*Angelita Morillo* is an American politician serving as a member of Portland City Council from District 3. She was elected in 2024 during Portland's first municipal election using proportional ranked choice voting, electing its City Council members from multi-member districts. She assumed office on January 1, 2025.

In response to recent federal immigration raids, Morillo introduced two policies focused on privacy and data collection including “A privacy policy that will address data loopholes that we have that allow agencies to buy sell data and track people's lives and, another policy to address how private security can be utilized to enforce federal law when they're supposed to be only enforcing state and local law.”

*Alex Marthews* is a US-UK dual citizen and a father of four. He has served as the elected Chair of Restore The Fourth since 2014. In this position, he has led efforts to rein in government powers of warrantless surveillance under FISA, sunset the PATRIOT Act, and build and support a network of surveillance activist groups across the United States. He helped to pass municipal bans on secret police surveillance technologies and police use of facial recognition, and most recently led the fight to block Flock Safety cameras in Cambridge, MA.

Alex was awarded Fight for the Future's "Nyan Cat Medal of Internet Awesomeness" in 2017. He has a master's degree in public policy from UC Berkeley, where he helped to design their first course on Cyberlaw and researched discrimination in online blocking and filtering systems.
In his prior career, Alex was the executive director of nonprofits in the fields of historic preservation, poverty, and girls' education in East Africa.

Alex's [Twitter](https://twitter.com/rebelcinder) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marthews/) [Publications](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YPA3dAYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao)

*Hector Dominguez* was trained as a robotics and automation engineer, and he had training in Japan and the University of California. Hector grew up along the Gulf Coast of Mexico with a strong community feeling, so after his education, Hector returned to Mexico to establish a community collective based around collaboration across interdisciplinary fields. Hector especially tried to connect groups that did not have much experience or support with science and technology. In 2013, Hector was drawn to the Pacific Northwest in Oregon and there he began his own startup that built on his knowledge in agriculture and automation to create sensor networks for vineyards. During his time in Oregon, Hector was drawn to the City of Portland and its smart city plans. He eventually joined the team in 2018 as Open Data Coordinator.

Portland’s Smart City initiative, known as Smart City PDX, is an effort to manage networks within the city while exploring civic innovation possibilities always with an eye on social responsibility.

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