Chula Vista officials claim the policy bans the sale of data picked up by police surveillance tools. Yet, most personal information could still lawfully be sold, according to experts in how surveillance data is used and regulated.
City officials did not make themselves available for interviews regarding the policy. Meanwhile, privacy advocates said they know what the policy doesn’t do — it doesn’t prevent the sale of Chula Vista residents’ personal information.
“Whether it's your geolocation data, your biometric data, information about your phone number, your email address, much of the information that's covered by this policy is then simply exempted under that exception because a lot of the surveillance that is shared with vendors is recorded in public,” Cahn said.
“It does not expressly prohibit the selling,” Hofer said. “It sort of seems to imply that potential restrictions might be incorporated into future use policies.”
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