The legislation, a response to one county’s decision to end its contract with Dominion Voting Systems, would bar county supervisors from such actions without transition plans and replacement contracts already enacted.
The state’s second most populous city gave itself 12 months to evaluate the use of its many surveillance technologies or put them on pause — and with about nine months gone, not a single tool has been fully evaluated.
With the latest cutbacks, tech companies have disclosed plans to eliminate more than 25,200 jobs in the Bay Area over a 17-month stretch that includes all of 2022 and so far in 2023.
The communications tower comes equipped with fire cameras, radio service and a fail-safe digital communications network. The solar-powered tower will also include a weather station.
A bill to make big tech compensate publishers for using news that drives profits cleared the state Assembly, despite a threat from Facebook parent Meta to remove news from its platforms.
Civil rights advocates have warned that law enforcement could share the locations of drivers from other states who have come to California to seek abortions, which could lead to prosecution.
The filing describes how staffers “suffered and will continue to suffer ongoing, imminent and impending threat of identity theft crimes, fraud and abuse, resulting in monetary loss and economic harm.”
The state IT department, the public utilities commission and the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership are all involved in an effort to gather feedback on development of the State Digital Equity Plan and the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment five-year plan.
NetChoice represents social media companies, including Google, Meta, TikTok and Twitter, and its lawsuit contends that the California law will have a chilling effect on free speech.
Vallejo city officials are reporting that the gunshot detection sensors they installed in gun crime hot spots are not working properly. The city is working with the vendor, Flock Safety, to resolve the technical issues.
The university is set to add the new college, its first in more than 50 years — and is providing free curriculum to help spread data science to California community colleges, California State University and more.
The classes operate through Coursemojo, an educational technology company that brings hybrid teaching to classrooms across the country. It is an idea spun from the pandemic.
The estimated cost for the camera program — for managing recorded video, service and maintenance, technology support, and more — would be about $3.2 million over five years. The county will also use a federal grant for $430,000.
Bay Area Rapid Transit projects a deficit of $340 million in Fiscal Year 2027-2028. L.A. Metro is anticipating a $400 million deficit in 2025 and a $1 billion shortfall in 2026.
Chief Michel Moore was joined by fellow officers outside the LAPD Headquarters last week to unveil the new Axon Fleet 3 in-car camera system and Cradlepoint NetCloud Manager, touting the upgrades as a huge step forward in police accountability.
Experts say the challenges are numerous. Many of the systems in California and nationwide are still operating with outdated software, poor passwords, aging infrastructure and other weaknesses that could leave them at risk.
County spokesman David Wert said the county had anticipated such a computer invasion and had taken out insurance. He said that of the $1.1 million payout, the county’s share was $511,852 and the insurance company paid the rest.
“In researching efforts to alleviate these issues, county administration recommends approval of a contract with Just Appraised Inc., which is a software developed for assessment functions,” says a county staff report.
The contract between the city and Flock Safety includes installation of the 40 cameras with audio capabilities, maintenance, cloud storage and software updates — plus the ability to capture visual identifiers.
“It was an actual vendor of ours that got hacked and allowed the penetration of our Police Department to occur,” said Chief Information Officer Scott Conn.
Since last month’s low-speed crash, which resulted in no injuries, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said the company chose to conduct a voluntary recall, and the software update assured such a rare incident “would not recur.”
City Manager Joe Lopez has said the personal information that may have been accessed was limited mainly to city employees and almost entirely to Police Department employees. He said a small number of people who don’t work for the city may have been affected.
The Chronicle was able to view the published files using a link that was published on the dark web and found that nearly 600 gigabytes of new files were released. The release comes as the city struggles to get a handle on a ransomware attack that has disrupted city systems for nearly two months.
The legal filing, which asks for monetary damages of up to $25,000 per affected employee, argues that the city failed to implement “reasonable, industry-standard security protocols for its information systems” and that as a result, employees’ personal information was released.
