Even though federally regulated consumer reports were already exempted from California’s ambitious new privacy law, the companies that sell them spent much of the last year engaged in an as yet unsuccessful lobbying effort to prevent individuals from opting out of sharing their own data from the firms’ databases. That’s in part because they have diversified beyond consumer reports and credit scores and into the creation of personal profiles based on online information that is less well regulated and critics of the industry call intrusive.
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Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Housing, Land use, News, Social Justice
Regional Leaders Want to Use CA Fair Housing Law to Undo Segregation
Decades of explicitly and implicitly racist policies have left the Bay Area not just unaffordable, but also deeply segregated, panelists told a conference in San Francisco last week.
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The FBI Arrested a Top City Employee. What Does This Mean for S.F.?
A San Francisco department head was arrested and charged by the FBI this week.
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How to Vote in the Primary in the March 3 Election
The upcoming March 3 vote will be a primary election, the first since 2018 when a new law moved California primaries from June to March.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Economy & Business, News, Social Justice
Santa Clara County Floats Universal Basic Income Proposal for Foster Youth
A Santa Clara County Supervisor has put forward a proposal, currently under development, for a pilot program in which the county would give each youth transitioning out of foster care $1,000 a month.
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Iranian-American Organizer on Anxiety and Resilience During International Tension
Donna Farvard, national organizing director for the National Iranian American Council, shares what communities in the Bay Area have been experiencing as law enforcement agencies announced heightened scrutiny and the threat of war loomed.
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Tenants Organize to Keep Building Affordable Through Nonprofit Purchase
Tenants of a building in the Richmond organized to preserve their homes as affordable through acquisition by a nonprofit, the Mission Economic Development Agency.
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Supreme Court Won’t Take Case on “Criminalization of Homelessness”
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to take up – and will thereby let stand – a ruling that if there aren’t enough shelter beds or housing for homeless people, governments can’t cite them for sleeping or camping in public.
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How Women Freed Immigrants from Forced Prostitution in Chinatown
Journalist Julia Flynn Siler discusses her book “The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown” and takes Civic to visit the Cameron House, which housed rescued women and girls.
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Experimental FRESH Festival Pursues Healing and Tenderness in Troubled Times
At this year’s FRESH festival of experimental dance, music and performance, artists are fostering healing from trauma such as domestic violence and sex trafficking through creative expression.