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Brian Hofer

01 · In focus

One person, in the field.

The structured facts the source records about Brian Hofer, the count of declared adjacencies in the corpus, and the federation map zoomed on this node and its neighbours.

person

↑2 declared connections

Kind
Person
Status
active
Confidence
high
Entity ID
person-brian-hofer
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Tags oakland, usa, surveillance, community-control-of-police-surveillance, algorithmic-accountability, civil-rights

Brian Hofer · 1 direct neighbour visible

02 · Connections

2 adjacencies, by relation.

Split by direction. Direct links are the ones Brian Hofer’s source record names; inferred backlinks are records elsewhere in the corpus that point at this entity. Some records appear in both because the corpus names them from both sides — those rows carry a note.

Direct from this record

1 link

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Inferred backlinks

1 link

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03 · Background

From the source record.

Body prose as it appears in movement-graph’s published markdown for this entity. Links to other corpus entities resolve to their graph page; links to deeper repo paths are kept as text so the page does not invent a route.

Brian Hofer is a privacy advocate and organizer with Oakland Privacy. He advocated for the creation of the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission and served as the commission's chair from its founding in 2016 until his resignation in November 2025. He is the executive director of Secure Justice, a nonprofit civil rights and technology organization focused on privacy and police accountability.

04 · Sources

Where this came from.

3 sources listed from the pinned corpus. Links are shown only when the source URL is a valid HTTP(S) address.

  1. oaklandside.org

    Checked 2026-06-03

    Identifies Hofer as chair of the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission and executive director of Secure Justice; describes him as a citizen advocate who "advocated for the creation of the Privacy Advisory Commission and has served on it since it was established" in 2016

  2. eff.org

    Checked 2026-06-03

    Quotes Hofer extensively on Oakland Privacy strategy and campaigns; documents his participation in the ad-hoc citizens commission during the 2014 DAC fight period

  3. oaklandside.org

    Checked 2026-05-19

    Reports Hofer's resignation from the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission in November 2025 after serving as chair since the commission's 2016 creation

Source: entities/persons/person-brian-hofer.md — movement-graph pin 914cdfd.