Data Privacy
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Education Department opens student-privacy investigations into three California districts over ethnic studies
Federal officials say lessons in San Francisco, Palo Alto and North Monterey County may have asked students about sexuality, health and family income without parental consent, while two of the districts say the flagged activities were…
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Meta is ordered to pay $25 billion on the day it reports soaring sales and a deal to keep Zuckerberg in California
A New Mexico judge imposed the largest penalty yet against the Menlo Park company, which said it would appeal, as Meta disclosed heavy A.I. spending, negative free cash flow and an agreement tying its chief executive…
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California settles with 23andMe’s bankrupt shell for $6 million, ending its fight over genetic data
The deal resolves the state’s claims over a 2023 breach that exposed more than 855,000 Californians, and drops its appeals of the sale of customers’ DNA data.
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Santa Clara County sheriff seeks $50 million Axon deal adding AI jail monitoring, drones and plate readers
The proposal, which supervisors take up on Tuesday as a report rather than a vote, would fold the department’s technology into a single five-year contract that county procurement officials have exempted from competitive bidding.
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Peninsula cities shrink license plate camera networks as a grand jury deadline nears
Response letters due to a San Mateo County civil grand jury by Nov. 2 show cities cutting off hundreds of outside agencies and private university police, while some dispute the jury’s account and put off the…
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California joins states pressing for child-safety terms in Character.AI’s bankruptcy sale
Attorney General Rob Bonta and a bipartisan group of states warn that the Menlo Park chatbot company’s archive of intimate user conversations, many of them with minors, should not change hands without binding safeguards.