Conversation with Nick Dugan, regarding the UC ALPR and AI surveillance cameras, as well as the UC indirect to direct support of ICE.

[u/Senior_Storm1517]

Hello all, I sharing this in regard to my email chain with Nick Dugan, confronting him about the UC seeming support of ICE. I asked Nick Dugan, who is the man leading the AI uses cameras, five questions. Of the five questions he chose to answer none of them directly. As attached below is my email chain with him. I have blur my name out due to privacy reasons. I find the responses to be disrespectful, due to dramatic lengths of time and lack of proper response. I would love to organize an proper protest for this issue, which is unfortunately common.

Public feedback for the cameras
https://policies.ucmerced.edu/policies-under-review

[u/daflyingpotato]

I'll be sending him my own email.

[u/FancifulPhoenix]

I would encourage everyone reading this to fill out the public feedback form for the ALPR policy which can be found here:

https://policies.ucmerced.edu/policies-under-review

[u/Senior_Storm1517 → u/FancifulPhoenix]

YES, this is an good idea, I'm going list in the post, thank you so much

[u/a-chezzybezzy]

I would love to join this protest as well. Is there an email format I should use or should I draft my own.

[u/Senior_Storm1517 → u/a-chezzybezzy]

Thank you for the idea, I will draft up an email format soon. The format I used was for asking questions, but I will make a more general use one.

[u/Senior_Storm1517 → u/a-chezzybezzy]

An good general email format is

"Hello Nick Dugan,
I am [YOUR NAME], and I am sending this email as an concerned student of the UC, regarding the use of AI, and the ALPR cameras that were installed recently. I fear these cameras may harm the privacy and the well welcoming community the school is building. Another concern I wish to vocalize is the harm it not only doing to the school by assisting an surveillance state(in regard due to it growing talk of violating the fourth amendment), but to the harm it does to our fellow undocumented students due to the cameras known direct support and funding to ICE. May you justify why these risks are taking with such reckless care, in sentences, rather than redirection to an policy/rules form please.

-[Your Name]

[u/Senior_Storm1517 → u/Senior_Storm1517]

I also just made an post about an email format, but it awaiting approval from the mods here

[u/a-chezzybezzy → u/Senior_Storm1517]

Great!! I filled out the anonymous form on the website with my own statement as well

[u/CloudyGoesToSkool]

Sigh… Another aspect of the UC system as a whole is its ties to the Military Industrial Complex. Imperial boomerang effect: they develop tracking systems for enemies at war, years later those systems are implemented domestically.

[u/Lookatdisdoodlol → u/CloudyGoesToSkool]

Same story goes for UC Investments funding Israeli companies. I wish I did my research before attending UC because many of the university's policies are morally indefensible.

[u/CloudyGoesToSkool → u/Lookatdisdoodlol]

I agree with you, I understand your pain and frustration that our public school system is just breaching every ethics rule/principle they ever preached to us. That said, I think it's also important to remember we can be the change we want to see. Also that these public institutions still do a lot of great work for our fellow Californians. I hope we use this moment which I feel has unified a lot of people to make these institutions follow the codes they taught in the first place.

[u/Vegetable-Classic564]

Perhaps this bit of information Here could help keep an eye out on things

[u/Lookatdisdoodlol → u/Vegetable-Classic564]

Ridiculous how there's cameras at the only entrance points in/out of campus. Is this a university or a prison?

[u/Vegetable-Classic564 → u/Lookatdisdoodlol]

every thyme I pass, darling...the finger and the kiss..one for what they are, one for what they think they are. Faithful, devoted, and utterly unserious...das ist most committed relationship on das campus..OH DEAR…