Documenting Police Data Raids On California Medical Cannabis Dispensaries
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Abstract Last month, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration raideda group of medical cannabis dispensaries private houses andbusinesses in San Francisco. It was the latest in a series of raidsby federal narcotics agents who have declared war on medical cannabisgrowers in California. Agents target computers at each locationdownloading data onto portable hard drives. They search forinformation about fellow growers, financial transactions, salesrecords, bank accounts and the identity of medical cannabis patientswho purchase from the dispensaries. In an effort to protect patientprivacy, the City of San Francisco issues "anonymized" patient IDswith only a string of digits identifying each patient in theirdatabase. Patients, dispensaries, lawyers and journalists involvedwith medical cannabis are trying to defend their data using PGPdisk,Hushmail and other measures. The talk will focus on how to build acommunity of trust in the face of mandatory five and ten year federalprison sentences sought by U.S. authorities for growing California'snumber one agricultural crop.
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