New report by CA-DOJ states that 3,100 people are held in CA #immigration detention centers daily, 75% have no criminal record, and conditions are terrible and inhumane. https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/04/ice-detention-center-investigation/

DMV proposes starting to allow testing of large driverless trucks on California roads. #UAV https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/california-self-driving-truck-testing-proposal

"Universities wholesale lack of oversight of private information to shield their students’ private photos, videos, social media accounts and other sensitive information shows a systemic failure to protect students’ private data". https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/04/23/nationwide-hacking-of-students-private-photos-reaches-csu-east-bay/?

Keystroke productivity employee surveillance program Work Composer leaves 21 million screenshot exposed in an open bucket on the web. #employer #spying https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/more-than-21-million-employee-screenshots-leaked-from-workcomposer-workplace-surveillance-app

“You can’t go after the teacher to squelch student free expression.” #journalism https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/lowell-journalism-teacher-says-he-was-reassigned-20288287.php?

"U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White asked her to humor the court. It seems like with this administration there’s a new world order every single day,” he said. “It’s like whack-a-mole. He ordered the government to clarify the new policy" #Students #visas #Sevis https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/25/ice-is-reversing-the-termination-of-legal-status-for-international-students-around-the-us/

California's governor puts his thumb on the scale in favor of unfettered use of #algorithmic decision making systems and unregulated artificial intelligence. #AI https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/newsom-california-privacy-cppa-ai-00307233

"it’s maddening that so many members of the California Legislature have put #looting center stage, pushing bills to lengthen jail and prison sentences for theft during emergencies. It’s a misdirection of public time, effort and money. And it glosses over the deep governmental failures that the #wildfires exposed" https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/04/looting-penalties-los-angeles-fires/

The money was then sent to two nonprofit organizations . Those groups later gave $8.5 million to a political committee overseen by DeSantis’ chief of staff. #Medicaid

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article304665166.html#storylink=cpy

"Lawyers for the agency’s Consumer Protection and Enforcement Division had alleged that there were more than 200,000 unauthorized limousine rides on #Uber Black, mostly in 2019, with hundreds of #Uber Black drivers who were not properly insured or not enrolled in mandatory drug testing and driving record reviews" https://www.sfpublicpress.org/uber-submitted-false-information-to-regulators-used-substandard-limousines-agency-rules/

"The gang field interview sheet from the Prince George’s County Police Department notes that “wearing the Chicago Bulls #hat represents that they are a member in good standing with #MS-13.” https://theintercept.com/2025/04/18/trump-kilmar-abrego-garcia-ms13-gang-database/

"When your data is scraped and sold by data brokers to fintechs, you don’t know what they know and how they’re using it to shape your financial future. And you have no way of challenging it." https://greenlining.org/2025/fcra-and-find-out/

"In a letter to DHS, the House members asked why agents attempted to enter the schools without warrants, and falsely claimed that the students came to the country as unaccompanied minors and that the agents were granted permission to be there by their guardians. 4 of the 5 students named were not unaccompanied minors, and parents contacted by the school district officials said they had not been contacted by #HomelandSecurity in advance of the visit". https://edsource.org/updates/house-democrats-demand-meeting-with-homeland-security-boss-over-visit-to-la-schools

"“If you were to put these two cases side by side, taking a pure look at the law and behavior,” he says, “if there’s any criminal liability here in these two cases, clearly it’s not the Diana Teran case.” #attorneygeneral https://missionlocal.org/2025/04/brooke-jenkins-diana-teran-rob-bonta-george-gascon/

European Data Protection Authority launches investigation into #grok and whether Elon Musk's large language model lawfully acquired and processed training data. https://apnews.com/article/ireland-data-privacy-elon-musk-6458d4cc70f6b77af8034e64f45e752f

Ditch #Chrome for *something* and do it now. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/i-ditched-chrome-for-the-vivaldi-browser/#dt-heading-oh-and-its-private-too

17 year old nonverbal autistic child with cerebral palsy shot 9 times by police who started shooting 12 seconds after they arrived. https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/us/idaho-police-shooting-autistic-teen/index.html

According to The Markup, every single Florida law enforcement agency is now signed up as a 287-G partner to #ICE. https://themarkup.org/2025/04/16/trump-is-creating-a-deportation-army-of-local-cops

East Bay #Media Center burns down in Berkeley taking with it decades of archival material. https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/04/16/fire-at-berkeleys-east-bay-media-center-erased-decades-of-film-history

Federal judge Leonie Brinkema issues opinion finding #Google violated the Sherman #Antitrust Act in the operation of its ad marketplaces. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.533508/gov.uscourts.vaed.533508.1410.0.pdf