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The Bay Area legislator wants to ban companies from charging prices based on information stored on phones, customer laptops or other hardware devices. The bill that sits before the meeting after progressing through the Senate in May is One of the 30 measures the legislature introduced this year with Adjust artificial intelligence technologywrites Calmatters’ Maya K. MillerS
Seni. Aisha WahabThe proposal will limit AI-Food Price Discrimination By banning companies from using AI to increase prices based on How much battery life is left on the phoneWhat applications are installed on the device and others.
Fremont’s democrat cited a report by advocacy group Consumer This said that driving applications charge higher prices for riders whose telephone batteries are low. A Propublica The report also found that the test preparatory company Princeton Review charges higher prices for online SAT teaching customers who live in postal codes where there is a high percentage of Asian residents.
- WahabDuring the hearing of the Assembly Committee in July: “Our devices are armed against us so that large corporations can increase profits and this must stop.”
But Uber and Lyft driving companies have denied an unfair manipulation of prices. Other business groups, including the California Chamber of Commerce and some Republican legislators, also oppose the measure.
- Assembly Diane DicksonA Republican from Newport Beach, during the hearing of the committee: “This over -regulation impedes how we do business and how people want to do business. I just believe the market solves these problems.”
Other events in the State Capitol: Governor Gavin Newo revealed more details last week about a potential plan to redirect congress cards in California to counteract current efforts to redistribute Texas.
At the insistence of President Donald Trump’s advisers, the Texas Republicans are trying to redistribute themselves so that GOP will maintain control over the US Representatives Chamber during the 2026 intermediate elections.
To help displace the House Balance Balance as California’s requirement to bring an independent redistribution committee, Newsom is considering calling special elections in November to allow voters to approve an alternative card that would apply more democrats. Read more by Calmatters’ Alexey KossefS
Calletatters events: On September 17 Calmatters’ Alejandro Lazo It will hold a panel to discuss how California can overcome its challenges for clean energy, as Trump and Congress Republicans work to dismantle key climate policies. Sign up here To be present in person in San Francisco or practically.
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Starting today the public can gain access to a First of its kind database This allows users to search for documents and other police production records from nearly 700 California law enforcement agencies.
So far, they have been accessible only by submitting specific requests to individual agencies. The database contains about 1.5 million pages of records of 12,000 cases of employees and the use of force. It does not include photos of the crime scene, audio records or videos.
- Tiffany BaileySenior ACLU Foundation’s lawyer in Southern California: “Critical, families who have lost relatives in California will already have direct access to the information they need to seek meaningful accountability that has been refused too often.”
UC Berkeley and Stanford University have created this instrument for a period of seven years with the help of state funding. The database is published jointly by Calmatters, The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Kqed.
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Trump stops the UCLA research funds
The Trump Administration freezes hundreds of UCLA scientific research because of the findings of the US Department of Justice that the public university did not do enough to stop anti -Semitism During last year’s propalist protests.
Calm Mikhail Zinshteyn He explains that nearly 500 national grants for health institutes and 300 grants for a National Scientific Foundation have been stopped. These grants received $ 225 million and $ 170 million respectively from the federal government, according to Michael’s analysis.
The Ministry of Justice found that “the Jewish and Israeli students in UCLA are subjected to a severe, comprehensive and objective harassment” during protests for the camp. Unless the UCLA agrees to a voluntary agreement until August 5, the Ministry of Justice officials plan to file a complaint against UCLA in a federal court in September.
In a separate lawsuit, Ucla settled last week with several Jewish claimants for claiming that the anti -Israel moods shown at the camps last year violate their religious rights. This agreement for a total value of over $ 6 million was rammed by a lawyer representing five propalist students and teachers, two of whom were Jewish and participated in the camp.
And finally: CA disputes Trump’s executive order
Referring to state laws requiring equal access to medical treatment, California is suing Trump’s administration on the president’s executive order, which threatens to withdraw federal funding from medical institutions that provide gender care for young patients. Learn more by Calmatters’ Anna B. IbaraS
California voices
A bill that will require cities In order to allow more housing near transit, it would save people’s money, reduce the risk of displacement and help the environment, Monica Rivera writesReal Estate Sales Manager and Gateway Cities Chairman for an abundance of housing LA
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Can sf To be saved? // The Atlantic Ocean
As AI Power needs a jumpBay Area data center relies on hydrogen as a steady alternative // The Mercury News
The leaders of the city towns are in High Bet Negotiations on Olympics Costs // Los Angeles Times
