James O’Keefe via Flickr

Steve Revilak represents the Massachusetts Pirate Party in the 2016 Boston Pride Parade, shortly after becoming the party’s first member elected to public office.

The number of cameras in Cambridge’s Central Square has roughly doubled since 2021; the total is now around 100 cameras – a fact known because the Massachusetts Pirate Party decided to map the area.

In the mapping events , participants plot the cameras’ locations, adding information about the type of camera, who owns it and what directions it faces.

The efforts “help us to understand how surveilled we are in public spaces” and contradicts claims that Cambridge needs more surveillance cameras, said James O’Keefe, co-founder and chair of the party. Representatives have come before the City Council s

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