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It was a tactic to provoke fear and to prevent people from speaking out.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks following the May 25 killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, hundreds of thousands of people in the Bay Area took to city streets to march against police brutality. Despite the mostly peaceful demonstrations that took place in downtown San Francisco, there were also multiple incidents of vandalism, theft and clashes between protesters and police that occurred over consecutive nights, prompting officials to order citywide curfews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department responded to these protests in part by commandeering private security cameras to keep an eye, in real-time, on a 27-block area surrounding Union Square, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday that seeks to prevent police from doing so again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From May 31 through June 7, 2020, The San Francisco Police Department (“SFPD”) acquired, borrowed, and used a private network of more than 400 surveillance cameras to spy on protesters in real time,” the suit alleges in papers filed in San Francisco Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing so violated a recently enacted city ordinance that requires the Board of Supervisors to approve any new surveillance systems for police use, according to attorneys with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Northern California chapter of the ACLU, who are representing the four activist plaintiffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They reached out to the Union Square Business Improvement District (USBID) and said, ‘We want access to your cameras,’ ” said Saira Hussain, an attorney with EFF. The organization obtained email exchanges through a public records request that confirmed the arrangement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco enacted the Acquisition of Surveillance Technology Ordinance in 2019 to specifically prevent police abuse of power, Hussain said. She called the arrangement between the USBID and SFPD “a back door deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841416\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Surveillance-area.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11841416 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Surveillance-area.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1129\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Surveillance-area.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Surveillance-area-800x470.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Surveillance-area-1020x600.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Surveillance-area-160x94.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Surveillance-area-1536x903.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 27-block area where the Union Square Business Improvement District has installed an elaborate surveillance system of nearly 400 cameras. A new lawsuit alleges the SFPD accessed those cameras during mass protests in early June without first obtaining permission from the Board of Supervisors. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It really is about SFPD playing fast and loose with a city ordinance that is supposed to put a democratic check on how law enforcement is using surveillance technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police routinely requested and received live access to USBID's camera network in 2019, seeking live surveillance of July Fourth, Pride and Super Bowl celebrations, all reportedly without board approval, according an investigation by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sf-police-repeatedly-secure-access-to-camera-network-for-live-surveillance-emails-show/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD has said officers didn’t always end up using the video feeds they sought to access during those events, but emails obtained through public records requests indicate officers did access live feeds, according to the Examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hope Williams, a San Francisco resident and lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, organized and participated in a June 2 protest that began at City Hall and culminated in a sit-in in front of the Hall of Justice, in defiance of an 8 p.m. curfew that Mayor London Breed ordered for five nights in early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was out there to protest police violence against Black people,” Williams said. “We're saying that Black lives matter and how did the police respond but with more abuse of power. It was a tactic to provoke fear and to prevent people from speaking out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other plaintiffs in the case participated in a June 3 protest organized by students at Mission High School and another on June 5 that began at City Hall and headed west up Market Street toward the Castro District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief William Scott argued in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7223144-SF-Admin-Code-19B-7-Exigency-Letter-to-the-BOS.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aug. 5 letter\u003c/a> to supervisors that protests involving “looting, vandalism and rioting” on May 30 created an emergency that allowed police to access cameras without board approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott followed up in response to questions from Supervisor Aaron Peskin with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7223143-Response-Letter-to-Sup-Peskin-Re-SFPD-Use-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sept. 9 letter\u003c/a>. He wrote that although SFPD's Homeland Security Unit requested access to the camera system on May 31, criminal activity did not continue in the Union Square area, so \"HSU did not monitor any activities, including first amendment activities.\" Officers separately reviewed the network's recorded footage network from May 30, Scott wrote, and that resulted in at least one arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"george-floyd\"]The City Attorney's Office provided copies of Scott's letters to supervisors in response to a request for comment on the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitunionsquaresf.com/about-bid/about-us\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website\u003c/a>, USBID describes itself as “a defined area wherein property owners are self-assessed to fund services that improve the overall quality of life for residents and visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business district also touts an elaborate surveillance system to protect members from crime. Nearly 400 cameras cover the 27-block area, bordered by Bush Street to the north, Kearny Street to the east, Market Street to the south and Taylor Street to the west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Union Square partnered with law enforcement and became the first area in San Francisco to deploy surveillance cameras (now over 350), resulting in crime enforcement and prosecution,” the district's business plan states. “Footage of incidents may be given to SFPD for investigative purposes. Members of the general public may request video camera footage if not part of an active investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USBID cameras can zoom in and focus on a subject, EFF attorney Hussain said, although it’s not clear whether SFPD used this capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you consider what people were speaking out against, it just makes this surveillance even more invasive,” Hussain said, “and makes it more likely in the future that people will be afraid to participate or organize protests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Shannon Lin of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The complaint alleges police violated a recently enacted local law when they requested and received access to a network of hundreds of cameras in Union Square during protests in the days following the killing of George Floyd.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1602120520,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1038},"headData":{"title":"SF Police Used Camera Network to Illegally ‘Spy on Protesters,’ New Lawsuit Alleges | KQED","description":"The complaint alleges police violated a recently enacted local law when they requested and received access to a network of hundreds of cameras in Union Square during protests in the days following the killing of George Floyd.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SF Police Used Camera Network to Illegally ‘Spy on Protesters,’ New Lawsuit Alleges","datePublished":"2020-10-07T20:13:18.000Z","dateModified":"2020-10-08T01:28:40.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11841385 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11841385","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/10/07/sf-police-used-camera-network-to-illegally-spy-on-protestors-new-lawsuit-alleges/","disqusTitle":"SF Police Used Camera Network to Illegally ‘Spy on Protesters,’ New Lawsuit Alleges","path":"/news/11841385/sf-police-used-camera-network-to-illegally-spy-on-protestors-new-lawsuit-alleges","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Four anti-police violence activists filed suit against San Francisco on Wednesday, accusing the city's Police Department of illegally conducting mass surveillance on protesters during a string of Black Lives Matter demonstrations that began in late spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We're saying that Black lives matter and how did the police respond but with more abuse of power. It was a tactic to provoke fear and to prevent people from speaking out.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Hope Williams, lead plaintiff","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks following the May 25 killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, hundreds of thousands of people in the Bay Area took to city streets to march against police brutality. Despite the mostly peaceful demonstrations that took place in downtown San Francisco, there were also multiple incidents of vandalism, theft and clashes between protesters and police that occurred over consecutive nights, prompting officials to order citywide curfews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department responded to these protests in part by commandeering private security cameras to keep an eye, in real-time, on a 27-block area surrounding Union Square, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday that seeks to prevent police from doing so again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From May 31 through June 7, 2020, The San Francisco Police Department (“SFPD”) acquired, borrowed, and used a private network of more than 400 surveillance cameras to spy on protesters in real time,” the suit alleges in papers filed in San Francisco Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing so violated a recently enacted city ordinance that requires the Board of Supervisors to approve any new surveillance systems for police use, according to attorneys with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Northern California chapter of the ACLU, who are representing the four activist plaintiffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They reached out to the Union Square Business Improvement District (USBID) and said, ‘We want access to your cameras,’ ” said Saira Hussain, an attorney with EFF. The organization obtained email exchanges through a public records request that confirmed the arrangement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco enacted the Acquisition of Surveillance Technology Ordinance in 2019 to specifically prevent police abuse of power, Hussain said. She called the arrangement between the USBID and SFPD “a back door deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841416\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Surveillance-area.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11841416 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Surveillance-area.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1129\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Surveillance-area.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Surveillance-area-800x470.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Surveillance-area-1020x600.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Surveillance-area-160x94.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Surveillance-area-1536x903.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 27-block area where the Union Square Business Improvement District has installed an elaborate surveillance system of nearly 400 cameras. A new lawsuit alleges the SFPD accessed those cameras during mass protests in early June without first obtaining permission from the Board of Supervisors. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It really is about SFPD playing fast and loose with a city ordinance that is supposed to put a democratic check on how law enforcement is using surveillance technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police routinely requested and received live access to USBID's camera network in 2019, seeking live surveillance of July Fourth, Pride and Super Bowl celebrations, all reportedly without board approval, according an investigation by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sf-police-repeatedly-secure-access-to-camera-network-for-live-surveillance-emails-show/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD has said officers didn’t always end up using the video feeds they sought to access during those events, but emails obtained through public records requests indicate officers did access live feeds, according to the Examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hope Williams, a San Francisco resident and lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, organized and participated in a June 2 protest that began at City Hall and culminated in a sit-in in front of the Hall of Justice, in defiance of an 8 p.m. curfew that Mayor London Breed ordered for five nights in early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was out there to protest police violence against Black people,” Williams said. “We're saying that Black lives matter and how did the police respond but with more abuse of power. It was a tactic to provoke fear and to prevent people from speaking out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other plaintiffs in the case participated in a June 3 protest organized by students at Mission High School and another on June 5 that began at City Hall and headed west up Market Street toward the Castro District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief William Scott argued in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7223144-SF-Admin-Code-19B-7-Exigency-Letter-to-the-BOS.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aug. 5 letter\u003c/a> to supervisors that protests involving “looting, vandalism and rioting” on May 30 created an emergency that allowed police to access cameras without board approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott followed up in response to questions from Supervisor Aaron Peskin with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7223143-Response-Letter-to-Sup-Peskin-Re-SFPD-Use-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sept. 9 letter\u003c/a>. He wrote that although SFPD's Homeland Security Unit requested access to the camera system on May 31, criminal activity did not continue in the Union Square area, so \"HSU did not monitor any activities, including first amendment activities.\" Officers separately reviewed the network's recorded footage network from May 30, Scott wrote, and that resulted in at least one arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"george-floyd"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The City Attorney's Office provided copies of Scott's letters to supervisors in response to a request for comment on the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitunionsquaresf.com/about-bid/about-us\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website\u003c/a>, USBID describes itself as “a defined area wherein property owners are self-assessed to fund services that improve the overall quality of life for residents and visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business district also touts an elaborate surveillance system to protect members from crime. Nearly 400 cameras cover the 27-block area, bordered by Bush Street to the north, Kearny Street to the east, Market Street to the south and Taylor Street to the west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Union Square partnered with law enforcement and became the first area in San Francisco to deploy surveillance cameras (now over 350), resulting in crime enforcement and prosecution,” the district's business plan states. “Footage of incidents may be given to SFPD for investigative purposes. Members of the general public may request video camera footage if not part of an active investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USBID cameras can zoom in and focus on a subject, EFF attorney Hussain said, although it’s not clear whether SFPD used this capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you consider what people were speaking out against, it just makes this surveillance even more invasive,” Hussain said, “and makes it more likely in the future that people will be afraid to participate or organize protests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Shannon Lin of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11841385/sf-police-used-camera-network-to-illegally-spy-on-protestors-new-lawsuit-alleges","authors":["6625"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_350","news_4781","news_27626","news_28031","news_28248","news_745","news_545","news_4289"],"featImg":"news_11822008","label":"news"},"news_11838327":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11838327","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11838327","score":null,"sort":[1600814324000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"closing-californias-digital-divide-one-rural-teachers-fight-to-get-her-students-connected","title":"Closing California's Digital Divide: One Rural Teacher’s Fight to Get Her Students Connected","publishDate":1600814324,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Third grade teacher Alena Anberg cruised down Highway 99 in her Ford F-150, past acres of almond orchards that split the terrain just outside her hometown of Arbuckle in Colusa County. She grew up in this town of 3,000 and knows the back roads well, which helped as she made several stops to deliver iPads, laptops and old smart phones with SIM cards installed to turn them into Wi-Fi hot spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days shortly after the coronavirus pandemic shut down schools, this was Anberg’s daily routine: helping students connect to their teachers online, by any means necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waiting outside his trailer home for the delivery was third grader Antonio Campos and his mom. He smiled shyly when Anberg walked up. The family had Wi-Fi thanks to the hot spot Anberg set them up with earlier, but they didn't know how to use the Chromebook. Anberg had returned to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838846\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838846\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1729_v2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Alena Anberg's roots in rural Arbuckle fueled her commitment to get the school district's students connected to reliable and affordable internet.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1729_v2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1729_v2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1729_v2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1729_v2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1729_v2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alena Anberg's roots in rural Arbuckle fueled her commitment to get the school district's students connected to reliable and affordable internet. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weeks into the school year, some 1.2 million students across the state still lack adequate internet access, and in rural California, about a third of families are not connected, according to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/disconnected-internet-stops-once-school-ends-for-many-rural-california-students/620825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an EdSource analysis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anberg has been laser focused on getting local internet providers to do more to connect people in her rural county, parts of which have been without reliable internet for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My third graders are eight years old and they're being held back academically by not having access,\" Anberg said. \"I want it solved, because it was an issue before the coronavirus, for like 25 years. In the super rural places that don't have any kind of cell towers, they're really without a solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a battle Anberg has taken on in earnest over the last six months, and now she and the school district may be on the brink of a major victory that would ensure that the all of the district's approximately 1,300 students have access to high quality, affordable internet service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alena Anberg, third grade teacher at Arbuckle Elementary School\"]'I hunted down all the internet company owners until I got their cell phone numbers and I called every single one of them.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades earlier, Anberg herself was a victim of spotty internet and low speed service in her home town. It was a thorn in her side when she was a teen mom working and trying to complete her bachelor's degree online. As a graduate student, she would hunt for cell phone hot spots to take night classes, sometimes sitting in her car in a parking lot, while waiting for her son to finish his classes at the local community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom was a police officer, a sergeant here, for the local sheriff's office for a lot of years. My dad was a crane operator,\" she said. \"I believe education is a catalyst out of poverty for many families. I had kids young myself, so I know what it is to have that struggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After shelter-in-place orders were issued in March, Anberg became increasingly worried about her students who were not connected to the internet. As a third grade teacher trying to instruct her students via distance learning, the problem of families not having reliable Internet service, or no service at all, galvanized her into action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our community, the families who are here,\" she said. \"I feel we need to serve them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mapping Arbuckle's Internet\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Anberg began going from home to home, knocking on doors and finding out which families had internet service. She made spreadsheets that mapped it all out, including students' siblings, then pinned each location in a Google map of internet coverage for her district, Pierce Joint Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many school districts across the country are currently struggling to get this kind of detailed information about their own students, according to Keith Krueger, CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What you really need is actionable data,\" Krueger said. \"Which means you have to know student by student, family by family, and that's highly private.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families trusted Anberg, and eventually she knew which hot spot, carrier and brand worked at which address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did this all while teaching during the day and tutoring students remotely after school. In talking with families, Anberg quickly realized a bigger problem was affordability: Many companies were charging a $200 enrollment fee, and while some were offering deals during the pandemic, many local families didn't know about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Anberg thought the easiest solution would be hot spots, which could help families with cell phones connect more cheaply. She helped the school district procure 200 Wi-Fi hot spots from T-Mobile's Education Empowerment Program, which arrived in June, free to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hot spots would have been a solution if we ever had enough, if we had one to one, and if we had the right brand at the right house,\" Anberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families began telling her that their hot spots weren't working because their homes were in places where T-Mobile didn't reach or because siblings were trying to share a single hot spot for class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district recently received 300 more hot spots from Verizon, which are being configured to meet privacy requirements before being distributed to families living in areas Verizon serves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838845\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838845\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Adrian Avila and his younger siblings share one hot spot and two computers among them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-1472x1472.jpg 1472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-912x912.jpg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-470x470.jpg 470w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Avila, 14 years-old (front) and his younger siblings share one hot spot and two computers. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Anberg had a bigger vision, said Carol Geyer, superintendent of Pierce Joint Unified, who said the district began to rely on Anberg's expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was helping my teachers who didn't have reliable internet, maybe at home for themselves or for their own children,\" said Geyer. \"Then she said, 'Wow, kids aren't connecting with school. What about their parents?'\" Geyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anberg knew many families’ livelihoods during COVID-19 depended on reliable internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I hunted down all the internet company owners until I got their cell phone numbers and I called every single one of them,” Anberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She finally found a sympathetic ear in the smaller, local company \u003ca href=\"https://succeed.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Succeed.Net\u003c/a>, headed by Robert Lavelock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She's an amazing person. She really cares about her community,\" Lavelock said of Anberg. \"It's kind of interesting that a teacher would take this on herself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"digital-divide\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anberg has convinced several local people to allow Succeed.Net to put up equipment on their land. Lavelock has agreed to lease space from them and install wireless radio equipment needed to relay signals from tower to tower, which will finally bring high speed internet to those areas. And he will waive enrollment fees for new customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By helping Anberg, Succeed.Net will fill in a few of its own coverage gaps, said Lavelock, who grew up in the area and founded his company in 1995.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not really a big money thing. I'm at the stage where I can now do things just to help the communities,” Lavelock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Limited Choices\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lavelock shares Anberg's frustration with larger internet service providers (ISPs) which collectively have taken billions of dollars in government money to improve infrastructure in rural parts of the state but have not delivered, according to many industry watchdogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Colusa County, the main provider is Frontier Communications, which recently filed for bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frontier has been the monopoly here for many, many years,” Anberg said. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2019 California Broadband Infrastructure Report Card\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Colusa County got an F+ grade. That's the grade given if the provider offers service, but doesn't meet minimum standards.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the school district itself is at the mercy of Frontier, said the superintendent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Frontier is our provider and and they aren't always reliable,\" Geyer said. \"Last week we went a day and a half with no internet whatsoever. We lost connectivity at the district level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frontier told KQED that it had responded promptly to resolve the disruption to Pierce Unified's service and that the trouble was caused by a piece of equipment that was not available until the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a large, geographically diverse area, service interruptions occur,\" the company said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838843\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1734V2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Ariel Johnson (right) and her sister Kaileia Johnson said they often must wait until midnight to do their homework because their internet, which is provided by Frontier, is so slow they can't be on it while family members are using it for work during the day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1734V2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1734V2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1734V2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1734V2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1734V2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariel Johnson (right) and her sister Kaileia Johnson said they must often wait until midnight to do their homework because their internet, which is provided by Frontier, is so slow they can't be on it while family members are using it for work during the day. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Anberg has become convinced government should consider internet a public utility like electricity and water, ensuring it is available and affordable to everyone. She had seen effective Wi-Fi networks in rural parts of Costa Rica when she traveled there, and didn’t understand why parts of California, known globally for its tech savvy reuptation, couldn’t make it work. She began to dig into the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found out that there's been legislation toward helping rural infrastructure for at least 10 years, in the Connect America I and Connect America II legislation, but that funding went to carriers who absorbed it, but then did not build that infrastructure,” said Anberg. “They weren't held accountable, because they're self reporting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's an issue that's long been on the radar of the non-profit advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a> (EFF).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the mapping data that the federal government has been relying on is woefully inaccurate,” said Ernesto Falcon, senior legislative counsel at EFF. “But it's inaccurate because the industry is supposed to report it and there hasn't been any sort of investigation in terms of who's abusing their position on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anberg did her own sleuthing into census-block mapping to find out how Frontier was using its funds. She said Frontier absorbed $140 million in Connect America II funds over four years and claimed it had enhanced broadband to certain addresses in Arbuckle, but when Anberg checked with customers at those addresses they told her their service had not improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frontier responded in a statement that it is the Federal Communications Commission, not Frontier, which identifies the specific areas that qualify for funding to enhance broadband services, and that the company is committed to meeting its Connect America Fund obligations according to the program’s requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Frontier continues to apply for and receive state funding. In May it applied for a California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) grant which is being reviewed by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). If approved, Frontier said it is confident it can bring \"enhanced broadband to even more of Colusa County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://public.tableau.com/views/NationalMapofUnconnectedStudentsDynamic_15931159111030/NationalDrilldown?:showVizHome=no&:embed=true\" width=\"1000\" height=\"850\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Public-Private Partnerships\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The CPUC recently saw its authority over the state’s broadband industry restored after ten years of deregulation won by the industry expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of effort has been happening in California the last couple of years to build up the state's capacity to regulate these companies themselves,” said EFF’s Falcon. “If the federal government won't do it, then we should be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the CPUC approved nearly $11 million for Frontier to deploy \"middle mile\" fiber and high speed lines in Lassen and Modoc counties. But the connectivity speed the state is requiring is outdated, said the EFF's Falcon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill before the state Legislature this past session, Senate Bill 1130, dubbed “Broadband for All,” would have fixed that, requiring ISPs to provide high speed infrastructure, but it died on the floor in August. State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said a three-way deal could not be reached, while Long Beach's state Sen. Lena Gonzalez, a Democrat who sponsored the bill, said no explanation was given for killing the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While legislators squabble, the state has moved to close the digital divide in other ways. Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed the CPUC to make $25 million available from the California Teleconnect Fund for hot spots and internet service for student households. School districts will be able to apply to receive 50% discounts on the cost of hot spot devices and on monthly recurring service charges until Sept. 30 of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and state Sen. Connie Leyva, D-Chino, assembled a task force of ISPs in April, asking them to come up with solutions. Thurmond has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/techdevices.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cut deals with different companies\u003c/a>, including Apple and T-Mobile, to get tablets equipped with Wi-Fi to students in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tired of waiting, some rural school districts across the country are getting creative on their own by figuring out how to bring the internet into students' homes through public-private partnerships between state agencies and telecoms, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cosn.org/blog/addressing-homework-gap-through-public-private-partnerships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">essentially setting up their own community networks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what Anberg's district has just decided to do. Faced with footing the bill for hundreds of students' hot spots to the tune of $72,000 a year, the district hopes instead to use state funds to establish its own district-wide network by joining \u003ca href=\"http://colusacountywifi.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edunet\u003c/a>, a Colusa County education effort that wants to leverage the educational band of the LTE spectrum to transmit to students' homes. Anberg was brought in by the superintendent to be part of the talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am super blessed that the families here trusted me with their internet information, and now I get to honor that by getting them connected,\" Anberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of relentless work to get students connected, Anberg said she can’t wait to return to the mobile home park where she started this work to tell the families they might finally have an affordable internet option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Between the new carrier, bringing awareness of options to families, and the hot spots that we already had going, every address will have internet access!!!” Anberg wrote on Facebook. “Can you believe it? Only took six months!”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Despite millions of dollars in government grants intended to build internet infrastructure for rural areas, many homes still don't have reliable or affordable high speed internet.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1600889549,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://public.tableau.com/views/NationalMapofUnconnectedStudentsDynamic_15931159111030/NationalDrilldown"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":59,"wordCount":2392},"headData":{"title":"Closing California's Digital Divide: One Rural Teacher’s Fight to Get Her Students Connected | KQED","description":"Despite millions of dollars in government grants intended to build internet infrastructure for rural areas, many homes still don't have reliable or affordable high speed internet.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Closing California's Digital Divide: One Rural Teacher’s Fight to Get Her Students Connected","datePublished":"2020-09-22T22:38:44.000Z","dateModified":"2020-09-23T19:32:29.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11838327 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11838327","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/09/22/closing-californias-digital-divide-one-rural-teachers-fight-to-get-her-students-connected/","disqusTitle":"Closing California's Digital Divide: One Rural Teacher’s Fight to Get Her Students Connected","path":"/news/11838327/closing-californias-digital-divide-one-rural-teachers-fight-to-get-her-students-connected","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Third grade teacher Alena Anberg cruised down Highway 99 in her Ford F-150, past acres of almond orchards that split the terrain just outside her hometown of Arbuckle in Colusa County. She grew up in this town of 3,000 and knows the back roads well, which helped as she made several stops to deliver iPads, laptops and old smart phones with SIM cards installed to turn them into Wi-Fi hot spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days shortly after the coronavirus pandemic shut down schools, this was Anberg’s daily routine: helping students connect to their teachers online, by any means necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waiting outside his trailer home for the delivery was third grader Antonio Campos and his mom. He smiled shyly when Anberg walked up. The family had Wi-Fi thanks to the hot spot Anberg set them up with earlier, but they didn't know how to use the Chromebook. Anberg had returned to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838846\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838846\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1729_v2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Alena Anberg's roots in rural Arbuckle fueled her commitment to get the school district's students connected to reliable and affordable internet.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1729_v2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1729_v2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1729_v2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1729_v2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1729_v2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alena Anberg's roots in rural Arbuckle fueled her commitment to get the school district's students connected to reliable and affordable internet. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weeks into the school year, some 1.2 million students across the state still lack adequate internet access, and in rural California, about a third of families are not connected, according to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2019/disconnected-internet-stops-once-school-ends-for-many-rural-california-students/620825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an EdSource analysis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anberg has been laser focused on getting local internet providers to do more to connect people in her rural county, parts of which have been without reliable internet for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My third graders are eight years old and they're being held back academically by not having access,\" Anberg said. \"I want it solved, because it was an issue before the coronavirus, for like 25 years. In the super rural places that don't have any kind of cell towers, they're really without a solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a battle Anberg has taken on in earnest over the last six months, and now she and the school district may be on the brink of a major victory that would ensure that the all of the district's approximately 1,300 students have access to high quality, affordable internet service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I hunted down all the internet company owners until I got their cell phone numbers and I called every single one of them.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Alena Anberg, third grade teacher at Arbuckle Elementary School","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades earlier, Anberg herself was a victim of spotty internet and low speed service in her home town. It was a thorn in her side when she was a teen mom working and trying to complete her bachelor's degree online. As a graduate student, she would hunt for cell phone hot spots to take night classes, sometimes sitting in her car in a parking lot, while waiting for her son to finish his classes at the local community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom was a police officer, a sergeant here, for the local sheriff's office for a lot of years. My dad was a crane operator,\" she said. \"I believe education is a catalyst out of poverty for many families. I had kids young myself, so I know what it is to have that struggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After shelter-in-place orders were issued in March, Anberg became increasingly worried about her students who were not connected to the internet. As a third grade teacher trying to instruct her students via distance learning, the problem of families not having reliable Internet service, or no service at all, galvanized her into action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our community, the families who are here,\" she said. \"I feel we need to serve them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mapping Arbuckle's Internet\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Anberg began going from home to home, knocking on doors and finding out which families had internet service. She made spreadsheets that mapped it all out, including students' siblings, then pinned each location in a Google map of internet coverage for her district, Pierce Joint Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many school districts across the country are currently struggling to get this kind of detailed information about their own students, according to Keith Krueger, CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What you really need is actionable data,\" Krueger said. \"Which means you have to know student by student, family by family, and that's highly private.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families trusted Anberg, and eventually she knew which hot spot, carrier and brand worked at which address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did this all while teaching during the day and tutoring students remotely after school. In talking with families, Anberg quickly realized a bigger problem was affordability: Many companies were charging a $200 enrollment fee, and while some were offering deals during the pandemic, many local families didn't know about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Anberg thought the easiest solution would be hot spots, which could help families with cell phones connect more cheaply. She helped the school district procure 200 Wi-Fi hot spots from T-Mobile's Education Empowerment Program, which arrived in June, free to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hot spots would have been a solution if we ever had enough, if we had one to one, and if we had the right brand at the right house,\" Anberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families began telling her that their hot spots weren't working because their homes were in places where T-Mobile didn't reach or because siblings were trying to share a single hot spot for class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district recently received 300 more hot spots from Verizon, which are being configured to meet privacy requirements before being distributed to families living in areas Verizon serves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838845\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838845\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Adrian Avila and his younger siblings share one hot spot and two computers among them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-1472x1472.jpg 1472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-912x912.jpg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2-470x470.jpg 470w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1711-scaled_v2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Avila, 14 years-old (front) and his younger siblings share one hot spot and two computers. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Anberg had a bigger vision, said Carol Geyer, superintendent of Pierce Joint Unified, who said the district began to rely on Anberg's expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was helping my teachers who didn't have reliable internet, maybe at home for themselves or for their own children,\" said Geyer. \"Then she said, 'Wow, kids aren't connecting with school. What about their parents?'\" Geyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anberg knew many families’ livelihoods during COVID-19 depended on reliable internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I hunted down all the internet company owners until I got their cell phone numbers and I called every single one of them,” Anberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She finally found a sympathetic ear in the smaller, local company \u003ca href=\"https://succeed.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Succeed.Net\u003c/a>, headed by Robert Lavelock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She's an amazing person. She really cares about her community,\" Lavelock said of Anberg. \"It's kind of interesting that a teacher would take this on herself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"digital-divide","label":"related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anberg has convinced several local people to allow Succeed.Net to put up equipment on their land. Lavelock has agreed to lease space from them and install wireless radio equipment needed to relay signals from tower to tower, which will finally bring high speed internet to those areas. And he will waive enrollment fees for new customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By helping Anberg, Succeed.Net will fill in a few of its own coverage gaps, said Lavelock, who grew up in the area and founded his company in 1995.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not really a big money thing. I'm at the stage where I can now do things just to help the communities,” Lavelock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Limited Choices\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lavelock shares Anberg's frustration with larger internet service providers (ISPs) which collectively have taken billions of dollars in government money to improve infrastructure in rural parts of the state but have not delivered, according to many industry watchdogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Colusa County, the main provider is Frontier Communications, which recently filed for bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frontier has been the monopoly here for many, many years,” Anberg said. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2019 California Broadband Infrastructure Report Card\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Colusa County got an F+ grade. That's the grade given if the provider offers service, but doesn't meet minimum standards.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the school district itself is at the mercy of Frontier, said the superintendent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Frontier is our provider and and they aren't always reliable,\" Geyer said. \"Last week we went a day and a half with no internet whatsoever. We lost connectivity at the district level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frontier told KQED that it had responded promptly to resolve the disruption to Pierce Unified's service and that the trouble was caused by a piece of equipment that was not available until the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a large, geographically diverse area, service interruptions occur,\" the company said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838843\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1734V2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Ariel Johnson (right) and her sister Kaileia Johnson said they often must wait until midnight to do their homework because their internet, which is provided by Frontier, is so slow they can't be on it while family members are using it for work during the day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1734V2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1734V2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1734V2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1734V2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/IMG_1734V2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariel Johnson (right) and her sister Kaileia Johnson said they must often wait until midnight to do their homework because their internet, which is provided by Frontier, is so slow they can't be on it while family members are using it for work during the day. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Anberg has become convinced government should consider internet a public utility like electricity and water, ensuring it is available and affordable to everyone. She had seen effective Wi-Fi networks in rural parts of Costa Rica when she traveled there, and didn’t understand why parts of California, known globally for its tech savvy reuptation, couldn’t make it work. She began to dig into the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found out that there's been legislation toward helping rural infrastructure for at least 10 years, in the Connect America I and Connect America II legislation, but that funding went to carriers who absorbed it, but then did not build that infrastructure,” said Anberg. “They weren't held accountable, because they're self reporting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's an issue that's long been on the radar of the non-profit advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a> (EFF).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the mapping data that the federal government has been relying on is woefully inaccurate,” said Ernesto Falcon, senior legislative counsel at EFF. “But it's inaccurate because the industry is supposed to report it and there hasn't been any sort of investigation in terms of who's abusing their position on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anberg did her own sleuthing into census-block mapping to find out how Frontier was using its funds. She said Frontier absorbed $140 million in Connect America II funds over four years and claimed it had enhanced broadband to certain addresses in Arbuckle, but when Anberg checked with customers at those addresses they told her their service had not improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frontier responded in a statement that it is the Federal Communications Commission, not Frontier, which identifies the specific areas that qualify for funding to enhance broadband services, and that the company is committed to meeting its Connect America Fund obligations according to the program’s requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Frontier continues to apply for and receive state funding. In May it applied for a California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) grant which is being reviewed by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). If approved, Frontier said it is confident it can bring \"enhanced broadband to even more of Colusa County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://public.tableau.com/views/NationalMapofUnconnectedStudentsDynamic_15931159111030/NationalDrilldown?:showVizHome=no&:embed=true\" width=\"1000\" height=\"850\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Public-Private Partnerships\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The CPUC recently saw its authority over the state’s broadband industry restored after ten years of deregulation won by the industry expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of effort has been happening in California the last couple of years to build up the state's capacity to regulate these companies themselves,” said EFF’s Falcon. “If the federal government won't do it, then we should be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the CPUC approved nearly $11 million for Frontier to deploy \"middle mile\" fiber and high speed lines in Lassen and Modoc counties. But the connectivity speed the state is requiring is outdated, said the EFF's Falcon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill before the state Legislature this past session, Senate Bill 1130, dubbed “Broadband for All,” would have fixed that, requiring ISPs to provide high speed infrastructure, but it died on the floor in August. State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said a three-way deal could not be reached, while Long Beach's state Sen. Lena Gonzalez, a Democrat who sponsored the bill, said no explanation was given for killing the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While legislators squabble, the state has moved to close the digital divide in other ways. Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed the CPUC to make $25 million available from the California Teleconnect Fund for hot spots and internet service for student households. School districts will be able to apply to receive 50% discounts on the cost of hot spot devices and on monthly recurring service charges until Sept. 30 of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and state Sen. Connie Leyva, D-Chino, assembled a task force of ISPs in April, asking them to come up with solutions. Thurmond has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/techdevices.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cut deals with different companies\u003c/a>, including Apple and T-Mobile, to get tablets equipped with Wi-Fi to students in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tired of waiting, some rural school districts across the country are getting creative on their own by figuring out how to bring the internet into students' homes through public-private partnerships between state agencies and telecoms, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cosn.org/blog/addressing-homework-gap-through-public-private-partnerships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">essentially setting up their own community networks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what Anberg's district has just decided to do. Faced with footing the bill for hundreds of students' hot spots to the tune of $72,000 a year, the district hopes instead to use state funds to establish its own district-wide network by joining \u003ca href=\"http://colusacountywifi.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edunet\u003c/a>, a Colusa County education effort that wants to leverage the educational band of the LTE spectrum to transmit to students' homes. Anberg was brought in by the superintendent to be part of the talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am super blessed that the families here trusted me with their internet information, and now I get to honor that by getting them connected,\" Anberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of relentless work to get students connected, Anberg said she can’t wait to return to the mobile home park where she started this work to tell the families they might finally have an affordable internet option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Between the new carrier, bringing awareness of options to families, and the hot spots that we already had going, every address will have internet access!!!” Anberg wrote on Facebook. “Can you believe it? Only took six months!”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11838327/closing-californias-digital-divide-one-rural-teachers-fight-to-get-her-students-connected","authors":["231"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_20744","news_22447","news_20013","news_4781","news_27626","news_3137","news_17748","news_23313"],"featImg":"news_11838842","label":"news"},"news_11801063":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11801063","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11801063","score":null,"sort":[1582120814000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"get-ready-for-another-consumer-privacy-initiative-in-california","title":"Get Ready for Another Consumer Privacy Initiative in California","publishDate":1582120814,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It’s been about a month since California rolled out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792899/the-california-consumer-privacy-act-mandates-what-again-exactly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">toughest consumer data privacy law\u003c/a> in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of January, you can demand that any company detail what information it collects about you, tell it to stop selling that information to other companies, or even delete the data altogether. And if a company negligently allows itself to be hacked, exposing your data, you can sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But already, there's talk of another law: The \u003ca href=\"https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5aa18a452485b60001c301de/5d8bc3342a72fc8145920a32_CPREA_2020_092519_Annotated_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Privacy Rights Act\u003c/a> would add clarifying language to the newly enacted \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)\u003c/a>, stipulating, among other things, that businesses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Should not collect the personal information of children without consent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Should only collect consumers’ personal information for specific purposes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Should provide consumers with easily accessible tools to obtain their personal information, correct or delete it, and to opt‐out of its sale to other parties.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Perhaps most dramatically, the new initiative would create a new regulatory agency in California that would enforce protections in addition to the Attorney General's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should have more privacy professionals in this agency, once it gets funded, up and operating if the initiative passes, than right now exists in the FTC [Federal Trade Commission] in the entire country,\" said the man behind the existing law and the proposed initiative, \u003ca href=\"https://www.caprivacy.org/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alastair Mactaggart\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, he added, \"Sensible companies realize this regulation is coming. This is not a burn-down-the-whole-world law. This is not a law that, you know, puts anybody out of business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real estate developer turned data privacy advocate has given a lot of thought in recent years to the surveillance economy that's sprung up around consumer data. And he recognizes he's not alone in feeling concerned about it: About 81% of the public say they feel \"the potential risks they face because of data collection by companies outweigh the benefits,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-and-privacy-concerned-confused-and-feeling-lack-of-control-over-their-personal-information/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Pew Research Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike most of us, Mactaggart had the money to launch a political and legal conversation in California, although \"conversation\" is perhaps too polite a term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Mactaggart launched a ballot initiative to tackle consumer data privacy. Business interests, data privacy advocates and members of the state Legislature were able to persuade him to drop it in favor of hastily written — and passed — legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, all sides declared open season on \"fixing\" it as the legislative year progressed. More than a couple dozen bills were launched, some trying to tighten the language of the CCPA to favor consumers, more trying to loosen the law to favor businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I expected some pushing and shoving, but I didn’t expect this wholesale assault to try to like wipe it out,\" Mactaggart said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the measures failed to pass, thanks in large part to state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee in Sacramento. After the smoke cleared, what was left of the CCPA was still the strongest law of its kind in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be because \"it's the only privacy act in the country,\" said Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she appreciates that Mactaggart now wants to make the law even tougher, although she hasn't had the chance to comprehensively review the fine print.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is such a new area. There are probably going to be a lot of different interpretations to it,\" Jackson said.[aside label=\"Related stories\" tag=\"data-privacy\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a number of other data privacy advocates like Mary Stone Ross with the \u003ca href=\"https://epic.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Privacy Information Center\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., are concerned about the fine print. Ross co-authored the earlier initiative, but says the new one includes giveaways to business interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For example, there's this definition of 'de-identified information,' \" she said. \"It's actually a really big deal because by definition, de-identified information is not personal information, and so if that definition is weakened, then it weakens the scope of the entire law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sure enough, in this new initiative is a weakened definition of de-identified,\" Ross added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other areas of the fine print, the Act raises the threshold for when the rules apply: only companies that buy, sell or share the personal information of more than 100,000 consumers or households need comply. The current standard kicks in for 50,000 consumers or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet more fine print: A business is exempt from disclosing information in response to rights requests if it requires disclosing \"trade secrets.\" The definition of a trade secret is very broad and could create a significant hurdle for prosecutors, regulators, or consumers trying to exercise their rights under CCPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard for data privacy advocates to ignore these provisions, even amid other language that tightens other elements of CCPA in favor of consumers. Last October, 11 privacy groups wrote an \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/files/2019/10/29/2019-10-23_-_privacy_coalition_comments_on_cprea.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open letter\u003c/a> to Mactaggart, urging 45 ways to strengthen the language of his new initiative. Only seven of their suggestions were incorporated into the final version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are steps forward. There are steps back. There are missed opportunities,\" said Hayley Tsukayama, a legislative activist for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/strengthen-californias-next-consumer-data-privacy-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>. Noting that EFF has not officially come out against the new initiative, she added, \"We have publicly pointed out the flaws that we see in the initiative. He didn't take all of our suggestions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Beyond California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the absence of federal data privacy law, Ross says other states are looking to California for direction. \"There’s legislation that’s going to be introduced in Florida, in Colorado, potentially in New York,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jim Halpert, a corporate attorney with DLA Piper who advises companies about data privacy, the new initiative is a step in the right direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new language, he said, is \"addressing some of the practical compliance issues that drove efforts to amend the law by the business community in 2019.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's groundbreaking data privacy regulation constitutes \"a sea change in regulation of privacy in the U.S.,\" Halpert added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few data privacy advocates expect Silicon Valley to lobby against the new initiative as Mactaggart gathers signatures, because they’re getting at least some of what they want. And given growing public concerns about data privacy, people on both sides expect voters to find the basic idea of the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 appealing.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Data privacy advocates are greeting the prospect of another consumer privacy ballot measure with skepticism.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1584742749,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1070},"headData":{"title":"Get Ready for Another Consumer Privacy Initiative in California | KQED","description":"Data privacy advocates are greeting the prospect of another consumer privacy ballot measure with skepticism.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Get Ready for Another Consumer Privacy Initiative in California","datePublished":"2020-02-19T14:00:14.000Z","dateModified":"2020-03-20T22:19:09.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11801063 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11801063","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/02/19/get-ready-for-another-consumer-privacy-initiative-in-california/","disqusTitle":"Get Ready for Another Consumer Privacy Initiative in California","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/f5d3ee5f-bc79-4c9d-adeb-ab5e013219ae/audio.mp3","audioTrackLength":200,"path":"/news/11801063/get-ready-for-another-consumer-privacy-initiative-in-california","audioDuration":200000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s been about a month since California rolled out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792899/the-california-consumer-privacy-act-mandates-what-again-exactly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">toughest consumer data privacy law\u003c/a> in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of January, you can demand that any company detail what information it collects about you, tell it to stop selling that information to other companies, or even delete the data altogether. And if a company negligently allows itself to be hacked, exposing your data, you can sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But already, there's talk of another law: The \u003ca href=\"https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5aa18a452485b60001c301de/5d8bc3342a72fc8145920a32_CPREA_2020_092519_Annotated_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Privacy Rights Act\u003c/a> would add clarifying language to the newly enacted \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)\u003c/a>, stipulating, among other things, that businesses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Should not collect the personal information of children without consent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Should only collect consumers’ personal information for specific purposes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Should provide consumers with easily accessible tools to obtain their personal information, correct or delete it, and to opt‐out of its sale to other parties.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Perhaps most dramatically, the new initiative would create a new regulatory agency in California that would enforce protections in addition to the Attorney General's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should have more privacy professionals in this agency, once it gets funded, up and operating if the initiative passes, than right now exists in the FTC [Federal Trade Commission] in the entire country,\" said the man behind the existing law and the proposed initiative, \u003ca href=\"https://www.caprivacy.org/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alastair Mactaggart\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, he added, \"Sensible companies realize this regulation is coming. This is not a burn-down-the-whole-world law. This is not a law that, you know, puts anybody out of business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real estate developer turned data privacy advocate has given a lot of thought in recent years to the surveillance economy that's sprung up around consumer data. And he recognizes he's not alone in feeling concerned about it: About 81% of the public say they feel \"the potential risks they face because of data collection by companies outweigh the benefits,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-and-privacy-concerned-confused-and-feeling-lack-of-control-over-their-personal-information/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Pew Research Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike most of us, Mactaggart had the money to launch a political and legal conversation in California, although \"conversation\" is perhaps too polite a term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Mactaggart launched a ballot initiative to tackle consumer data privacy. Business interests, data privacy advocates and members of the state Legislature were able to persuade him to drop it in favor of hastily written — and passed — legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, all sides declared open season on \"fixing\" it as the legislative year progressed. More than a couple dozen bills were launched, some trying to tighten the language of the CCPA to favor consumers, more trying to loosen the law to favor businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I expected some pushing and shoving, but I didn’t expect this wholesale assault to try to like wipe it out,\" Mactaggart said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the measures failed to pass, thanks in large part to state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee in Sacramento. After the smoke cleared, what was left of the CCPA was still the strongest law of its kind in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be because \"it's the only privacy act in the country,\" said Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she appreciates that Mactaggart now wants to make the law even tougher, although she hasn't had the chance to comprehensively review the fine print.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is such a new area. There are probably going to be a lot of different interpretations to it,\" Jackson said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related stories ","tag":"data-privacy"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a number of other data privacy advocates like Mary Stone Ross with the \u003ca href=\"https://epic.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Privacy Information Center\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., are concerned about the fine print. Ross co-authored the earlier initiative, but says the new one includes giveaways to business interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For example, there's this definition of 'de-identified information,' \" she said. \"It's actually a really big deal because by definition, de-identified information is not personal information, and so if that definition is weakened, then it weakens the scope of the entire law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sure enough, in this new initiative is a weakened definition of de-identified,\" Ross added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other areas of the fine print, the Act raises the threshold for when the rules apply: only companies that buy, sell or share the personal information of more than 100,000 consumers or households need comply. The current standard kicks in for 50,000 consumers or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet more fine print: A business is exempt from disclosing information in response to rights requests if it requires disclosing \"trade secrets.\" The definition of a trade secret is very broad and could create a significant hurdle for prosecutors, regulators, or consumers trying to exercise their rights under CCPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard for data privacy advocates to ignore these provisions, even amid other language that tightens other elements of CCPA in favor of consumers. Last October, 11 privacy groups wrote an \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/files/2019/10/29/2019-10-23_-_privacy_coalition_comments_on_cprea.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open letter\u003c/a> to Mactaggart, urging 45 ways to strengthen the language of his new initiative. Only seven of their suggestions were incorporated into the final version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are steps forward. There are steps back. There are missed opportunities,\" said Hayley Tsukayama, a legislative activist for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/strengthen-californias-next-consumer-data-privacy-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>. Noting that EFF has not officially come out against the new initiative, she added, \"We have publicly pointed out the flaws that we see in the initiative. He didn't take all of our suggestions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Beyond California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the absence of federal data privacy law, Ross says other states are looking to California for direction. \"There’s legislation that’s going to be introduced in Florida, in Colorado, potentially in New York,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jim Halpert, a corporate attorney with DLA Piper who advises companies about data privacy, the new initiative is a step in the right direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new language, he said, is \"addressing some of the practical compliance issues that drove efforts to amend the law by the business community in 2019.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's groundbreaking data privacy regulation constitutes \"a sea change in regulation of privacy in the U.S.,\" Halpert added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few data privacy advocates expect Silicon Valley to lobby against the new initiative as Mactaggart gathers signatures, because they’re getting at least some of what they want. And given growing public concerns about data privacy, people on both sides expect voters to find the basic idea of the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 appealing.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11801063/get-ready-for-another-consumer-privacy-initiative-in-california","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_13","news_248"],"tags":["news_22845","news_25155","news_22844","news_4781","news_24606","news_17968","news_1859","news_2011","news_353"],"featImg":"news_11801130","label":"news_72"},"news_11773365":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11773365","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11773365","score":null,"sort":[1568231764000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-tech-companies-are-trying-to-gut-the-california-consumer-privacy-act","title":"How Tech Companies Are Trying to Gut the California Consumer Privacy Act","publishDate":1568231764,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>With no federal law governing digital privacy, California’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Consumer Privacy Act\u003c/a> is expected to set the national standard when it goes into effect on Jan. 1. Unless it's neutralized by the state Legislature, which is wrapping up its 2018-2019 session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law, written in the spirit of tougher European regulations, any company doing business in California has to reveal what personal information they have collected about any state resident — upon request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the CCPA goes into effect, and individuals and reporters will go to companies and say, 'What do you know about me?' I think that will be a game changer,\" said Mary Stone Ross, an expert in consumer privacy who co-authored the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross and her allies are betting that, for some companies, the very thought they’d have to disclose what they’re collecting if consumers ask might prove a deterrent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If all of a sudden it’s easy for me to find out that they’re collecting pictures of my children, maybe I won’t be so inclined to use them,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how much of a game changer the law will be is up for debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Room for Interpretation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The CCPA was rushed through Sacramento last year: inside a week, with no hearings. California lawmakers and lobbyists on all sides agreed at the time there would be tweaks this year, but of course, they disagreed on what they should be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='data-privacy' label='More on Data Privacy']Privacy advocates including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/about-us/news/press-releases/california-becomes-first-state-to-strengthen-consumer-data-privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common Sense Media\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a> want to tighten the language. Business interests want to loosen it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday was the deadline for state lawmakers to play with a host of bills, some that include amendments to the CCPA, before they come up for a floor vote. Industry groups trying to weaken the act by futzing with its language succeeded in stripping out consumers' right to opt out of data collection without then having to pay more to receive the same services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can imagine, for instance, easily deciding to quit Instagram if opting out of data collection meant you had to pay for an account. But you may be less likely to opt in to more expensive phone service or home insurance in order to opt out of data tracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>You're the Product, Whether or Not You Paid for the Service\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Companies big and small make money selling your data, or hope to in the future, whether you pay for their services or not: phone companies, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11771923/connected-cars-race-to-market-raising-cybersecurity-fears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carmakers\u003c/a>, that stupid app you downloaded Saturday night. California’s Privacy Act doesn’t restrict any of this. The law as it stands now only provides consumers the right to know what data’s being collected, sold and sometimes given away in a data breach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies of all sorts have been careful to let industry groups take the lead in making what could be considered an unpopular case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, a group called \u003ca href=\"https://keepinternetfree.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keep the Internet Free\u003c/a>, which is a project of the \u003ca href=\"https://internetassociation.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internet Association \u003c/a>— a trade group for tech companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter, has been geo-targeting people in Sacramento with online ads like this one in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPBnxj2vDx4]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech companies asked reporters to contact industry organizations about the CCPA; the groups didn't respond to KQED requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Fight Going Forward\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates don't anticipate further changes to the language of the act this year. But next year, both sides will continue to do battle while business interests work to weaken or kill similar bills in Washington D.C. — even as they claim that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.zdnet.com/article/51-tech-ceos-send-open-letter-to-congress-asking-for-a-federal-data-privacy-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal law is necessary\u003c/a> to avoid a \"patchwork\" of laws on the state level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not yet clear whether a federal law would necessarily preempt tougher state laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Chris Conley, a policy attorney with the ACLU of Northern California.']'Privacy is a right that cuts across all different demographics. Male, female. Old, young. Republican, Democrat.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Privacy is a right that cuts across all different demographics. Male, female. Old, young. Republican, Democrat,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/bio/chris-conley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Conley\u003c/a>, a policy attorney with the ACLU of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The CCPA is a very important first step. It is not the perfect bill,\" Conley added. \"But someone has to be the first. It might as well be California pushing forward the idea that consumers are ultimately the ones who are in control of their own personal information, and that they are not simply subject to the terms of service and policies that companies impose upon them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the new law isn’t held up by lawsuits before it goes into force, supporters — and opponents — agree that the CCPA has created a new political playing field on which they expect to stay busy for the long term.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California’s Consumer Privacy Act, which takes effect in 2020, is in the target sights of the tech industry.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1577291413,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":839},"headData":{"title":"How Tech Companies Are Trying to Gut the California Consumer Privacy Act | KQED","description":"California’s Consumer Privacy Act, which takes effect in 2020, is in the target sights of the tech industry.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How Tech Companies Are Trying to Gut the California Consumer Privacy Act","datePublished":"2019-09-11T19:56:04.000Z","dateModified":"2019-12-25T16:30:13.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11773365 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11773365","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/09/11/how-tech-companies-are-trying-to-gut-the-california-consumer-privacy-act/","disqusTitle":"How Tech Companies Are Trying to Gut the California Consumer Privacy Act","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/09/MyrowCADataPrivacy.mp3","audioTrackLength":289,"path":"/news/11773365/how-tech-companies-are-trying-to-gut-the-california-consumer-privacy-act","audioDuration":289000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With no federal law governing digital privacy, California’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Consumer Privacy Act\u003c/a> is expected to set the national standard when it goes into effect on Jan. 1. Unless it's neutralized by the state Legislature, which is wrapping up its 2018-2019 session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law, written in the spirit of tougher European regulations, any company doing business in California has to reveal what personal information they have collected about any state resident — upon request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the CCPA goes into effect, and individuals and reporters will go to companies and say, 'What do you know about me?' I think that will be a game changer,\" said Mary Stone Ross, an expert in consumer privacy who co-authored the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross and her allies are betting that, for some companies, the very thought they’d have to disclose what they’re collecting if consumers ask might prove a deterrent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If all of a sudden it’s easy for me to find out that they’re collecting pictures of my children, maybe I won’t be so inclined to use them,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how much of a game changer the law will be is up for debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Room for Interpretation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The CCPA was rushed through Sacramento last year: inside a week, with no hearings. California lawmakers and lobbyists on all sides agreed at the time there would be tweaks this year, but of course, they disagreed on what they should be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"data-privacy","label":"More on Data Privacy "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Privacy advocates including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/about-us/news/press-releases/california-becomes-first-state-to-strengthen-consumer-data-privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common Sense Media\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a> want to tighten the language. Business interests want to loosen it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday was the deadline for state lawmakers to play with a host of bills, some that include amendments to the CCPA, before they come up for a floor vote. Industry groups trying to weaken the act by futzing with its language succeeded in stripping out consumers' right to opt out of data collection without then having to pay more to receive the same services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can imagine, for instance, easily deciding to quit Instagram if opting out of data collection meant you had to pay for an account. But you may be less likely to opt in to more expensive phone service or home insurance in order to opt out of data tracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>You're the Product, Whether or Not You Paid for the Service\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Companies big and small make money selling your data, or hope to in the future, whether you pay for their services or not: phone companies, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11771923/connected-cars-race-to-market-raising-cybersecurity-fears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carmakers\u003c/a>, that stupid app you downloaded Saturday night. California’s Privacy Act doesn’t restrict any of this. The law as it stands now only provides consumers the right to know what data’s being collected, sold and sometimes given away in a data breach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies of all sorts have been careful to let industry groups take the lead in making what could be considered an unpopular case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, a group called \u003ca href=\"https://keepinternetfree.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keep the Internet Free\u003c/a>, which is a project of the \u003ca href=\"https://internetassociation.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internet Association \u003c/a>— a trade group for tech companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter, has been geo-targeting people in Sacramento with online ads like this one in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/cPBnxj2vDx4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/cPBnxj2vDx4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech companies asked reporters to contact industry organizations about the CCPA; the groups didn't respond to KQED requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Fight Going Forward\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates don't anticipate further changes to the language of the act this year. But next year, both sides will continue to do battle while business interests work to weaken or kill similar bills in Washington D.C. — even as they claim that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.zdnet.com/article/51-tech-ceos-send-open-letter-to-congress-asking-for-a-federal-data-privacy-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal law is necessary\u003c/a> to avoid a \"patchwork\" of laws on the state level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not yet clear whether a federal law would necessarily preempt tougher state laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Privacy is a right that cuts across all different demographics. Male, female. Old, young. Republican, Democrat.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Chris Conley, a policy attorney with the ACLU of Northern California.","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Privacy is a right that cuts across all different demographics. Male, female. Old, young. Republican, Democrat,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/bio/chris-conley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Conley\u003c/a>, a policy attorney with the ACLU of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The CCPA is a very important first step. It is not the perfect bill,\" Conley added. \"But someone has to be the first. It might as well be California pushing forward the idea that consumers are ultimately the ones who are in control of their own personal information, and that they are not simply subject to the terms of service and policies that companies impose upon them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the new law isn’t held up by lawsuits before it goes into force, supporters — and opponents — agree that the CCPA has created a new political playing field on which they expect to stay busy for the long term.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11773365/how-tech-companies-are-trying-to-gut-the-california-consumer-privacy-act","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13","news_248"],"tags":["news_350","news_22845","news_25155","news_22844","news_4781","news_249","news_1859","news_2011","news_353"],"featImg":"news_11773481","label":"news_72"},"news_11758994":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11758994","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11758994","score":null,"sort":[1562199457000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"can-california-crack-down-on-deepfakes-without-violating-the-first-amendment","title":"Can California Crack Down on Deepfakes Without Violating the First Amendment?","publishDate":1562199457,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A California lawmaker says he knew something had to be done after watching \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/cQ54GDm1eL0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a video\u003c/a> of Barack Obama calling President Trump “a total and complete dipshit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set in what appears to be the Oval Office, the video also depicts the former president speaking fondly of the militant anti-colonial villain of the “Black Panther” comic franchise and claiming that Housing Secretary Ben Carson is brainwashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video was a fake, of course — a collaboration between the website Buzzfeed and filmmaker Jordan Peele. It’s Peele who speaks through Obama’s digitally re-rendered mouth to illustrate the dangers of A.I.-constructed “deepfake” videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the exception of some discoloration around the jaw and a not entirely convincing voice, it’s a solid forgery. And the technology used to make it is only getting better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I immediately realized, ‘Wow, this is a technology that plays right into the hands of people who are trying to influence our elections like we saw in 2016,’” said Assemblyman Marc Berman, a Democrat whose district includes Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Assemblyman Marc Berman']'I don’t think the First Amendment applies to somebody’s ability to put fake words in my mouth.'[/pullquote]Berman, chair of the Assembly’s election committee, has introduced a bill that would make it illegal to “knowingly or recklessly” share “deceptive audio or visual media” of a political candidate within 60 days of an election “with the intent to injure the candidate’s reputation or to deceive a voter into voting for or against the candidate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would apply to state-of-the-art deepfakes, as well as to lower tech fabrications. It also makes an exception if the video or audio has a clear disclaimer that digital monkey business has been performed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Libel and forgeries are hardly new phenomena in politics. But as technological developments make it increasingly difficult to sort fake from real news, and to crack down on the dissemination of false information once it finds its way online, lawmakers like Berman are struggling to find some way to fight back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to wake up after the 2020 election, like we did in 2016, and say, ‘dang, we should have done more,’” said Berman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is at least one limit on what can be done. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to free speech — making it unclear whether a ban on convincing video forgeries would pass constitutional muster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Civil Liberties Union of California, the California News Publishers Association and the California Broadcasters Association all oppose the bill on First Amendment grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill cleared a hurdle on Thursday by winning approval from a Senate committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, Whitney Prout, staff attorney with the publishers’ association, called the bill “an ineffective and frankly unconstitutional solution that causes more problems than it solves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=' Electronic Frontier Foundation analysts']'Congress must tread carefully if it seeks to address the actual problem without censoring lawful and socially valuable speech — such as parodies and satires.'[/pullquote]She warned that, if enacted into law, it could discourage social media users from sharing any political content online, lest it be a fake and they be held legally liable. Another possible consequence, she said, is that campaigns plaster every attack ad with a deepfake disclosure to shield themselves from lawsuits, leaving the voting public even more confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law surrounding the First Amendment really has evolved in a pre-internet world,” said Louis Tompros, a partner at the law office of WilmerHale in Boston and a lecturer at Harvard. The enactment of laws such as the one Berman proposes would “force the courts to really reconcile the whole body of First Amendment law with these new phenomenon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The method behind “deepfakery” is technically sophisticated, but its producers don’t need to be. These days, anyone with access to a YouTube tutorial and enough computing power can produce their own videographic forgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101870062,science_1943376]Hence the proliferation of so many comedic or satirical deepfakes. Some strive to make a point, like the one created by Peele or a more recent depiction of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/business/technology/mark-zuckerberg-deepfake-will-remain-online/2019/06/12/4171916e-a25b-4842-9bf6-f5d07512055a_video.html?utm_term=.efa39a49afbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bragging about stealing your data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are just internet-grade goofy. Consider the Q&A with the actress Jennifer Lawrence who speaks to reporters with the face of Steve Buscemi. (When shown the fake on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Buscemi seemed remarkably unfazed: “I’ve never looked better,” he said).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the technology has, of course, been used for seedier purposes. The most popular application seems to be pornographic, with online forgers digitally grafting the faces of Hollywood celebrities onto the bodies of adult film actresses — without the knowledge or consent of either party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Rana Ayyub, an Indian investigative journalist, the use was even more sinister. Last year, a fake sex video “starring” Ayyub was leaked online in an act of apparent retribution for her reporting that was sharply critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. As Ayyub told \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/deepfake-porn_uk_5bf2c126e4b0f32bd58ba316?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFn7uAoruECGNzWpzYqYO_NQMLqM6cYcWAtBMO4-MRmywYLQN3lFfiZCLAB_Nbmp6wDfpS-LxrSyB9Yt6M9srDAM9lAqoL43aBqiRm1XTPJLCaDF9BEXyCJC6XZQM2CwjE0aw7t5kOKoYMJP3LEc75cNOJbxx7Yy5-973ESE-szo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huffington Post\u003c/a>, the harassment and humiliation that followed sent her to the hospital with heart palpitations and led her to withdraw from online life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Berman introduced another bill that would give anyone involuntarily depicted in a sexually explicit video — including a digital fake — the right to sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it seems only a matter of time before someone attempts to use the method for political purposes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That conclusion was reinforced a few weeks ago when an edited video of \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/23/faked-pelosi-videos-slowed-make-her-appear-drunk-spread-across-social-media/?utm_term=.6dad5f36a763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nancy Pelosi went viral\u003c/a>, in which the Democratic Speaker of the House appeared to be slurring her words as if drunk or cognitively impaired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video wasn’t a deepfake. Rather than use machine-learning algorithms, its producers opted for the more primitive technological methods of slowing down the footage and raising the pitch of the voice. But it still elicited a wave of bipartisan angst about the threat that forged video poses to our democratic institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio characterized “very realistic fake videos” as a national security threat akin to aircraft carriers and nuclear weapons. And at a House hearing earlier this month, Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff from Burbank warned of the possible “nightmarish scenario” in which “a state-backed actor creates a deepfake video of a political candidate accepting a bribe.” Just as worrisome, he said, the mere existence of deepfakes allows bad actors to more convincingly dismiss real information as fake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Heritage/status/1020289722634076160\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some civil liberties groups are concerned that lawmakers will overreact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congress must tread carefully if it seeks to address the actual problem without censoring lawful and socially valuable speech — such as parodies and satires,” analysts with the Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote in response to the hearing. The Foundation said they are reviewing Berman’s bill and do not yet have a position on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tompros said it would be difficult to craft a law banning socially harmful deepfakes without sweeping up more traditional forms of political speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it a ‘deceptive audio or visual media’ if, for example, I take a ten minute very nuanced policy speech and I clip out five seconds in the middle where it sounds like the person is taking an extreme position?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lArPEDS0GTA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under that standard, a significant share of attack ads produced over the last half-century would be illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Berman’s proposal is much narrower than past legislative attempts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Assemblyman Ed Chau, a Democrat from Monterey Park, introduced a bill that would have banned the online dissemination of any false information about a political candidate. Chau pulled the bill in the face of fierce pushback from civil liberties groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The focus on video and audio specifically could put this year’s proposal on firmer legal ground, said Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor and founder of \u003ca href=\"https://reason.com/volokh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Volokh Conspiracy\u003c/a>, a law blog hosted by the libertarian magazine, Reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike a comment on climate change or the fiscal impact of tax legislation, where there is plenty of “dispute about what the actual truth is ... with altered video or altered images at least the person who is originating it will tend to know what’s true and what’s false,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=' Louis Tompros, lawyer]'Is it a ‘deceptive audio or visual media’ if, for example, I take a ten minute very nuanced policy speech and I clip out five seconds in the middle where it sounds like the person is taking an extreme position.'[/pullquote]He points to the 24 states that have criminal defamation laws that make it a punishable offense to knowingly or recklessly spread false information about a person. The U.S. Supreme Court has generally allowed these laws to remain on the books, although civil liberties organizations are fighting to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berman said his bill falls into that same category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are restrictions around the First Amendment, including around the issue of fraud,” said Berman. “I don’t think the First Amendment applies to somebody’s ability to put fake words in my mouth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might have once been a figure of speech, but no more. In the latest iteration of the technology, a few researchers at Adobe and American and German universities, produced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohadf.com/projects/text-based-editing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new editing method\u003c/a> that allows anyone to insert new words into a video transcript and have a person in the video speak them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effect: using technology to literally put words into someone else’s mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the researchers showed their creations to a small survey of viewers, more than half mistook the fakes for the real thing.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"New legislation would make it illegal to “knowingly or recklessly” share “deceptive audio or visual media” of a political candidate within 60 days of an election “with the intent to injure the candidate’s reputation or to deceive a voter into voting for or against the candidate.”","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1580429052,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":42,"wordCount":1721},"headData":{"title":"Can California Crack Down on Deepfakes Without Violating the First Amendment? | KQED","description":"New legislation would make it illegal to “knowingly or recklessly” share “deceptive audio or visual media” of a political candidate within 60 days of an election “with the intent to injure the candidate’s reputation or to deceive a voter into voting for or against the candidate.”","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Can California Crack Down on Deepfakes Without Violating the First Amendment?","datePublished":"2019-07-04T00:17:37.000Z","dateModified":"2020-01-31T00:04:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11758994 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11758994","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/07/03/can-california-crack-down-on-deepfakes-without-violating-the-first-amendment/","disqusTitle":"Can California Crack Down on Deepfakes Without Violating the First Amendment?","source":"CALMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Ben Christopher\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11758994/can-california-crack-down-on-deepfakes-without-violating-the-first-amendment","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A California lawmaker says he knew something had to be done after watching \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/cQ54GDm1eL0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a video\u003c/a> of Barack Obama calling President Trump “a total and complete dipshit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set in what appears to be the Oval Office, the video also depicts the former president speaking fondly of the militant anti-colonial villain of the “Black Panther” comic franchise and claiming that Housing Secretary Ben Carson is brainwashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video was a fake, of course — a collaboration between the website Buzzfeed and filmmaker Jordan Peele. It’s Peele who speaks through Obama’s digitally re-rendered mouth to illustrate the dangers of A.I.-constructed “deepfake” videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the exception of some discoloration around the jaw and a not entirely convincing voice, it’s a solid forgery. And the technology used to make it is only getting better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I immediately realized, ‘Wow, this is a technology that plays right into the hands of people who are trying to influence our elections like we saw in 2016,’” said Assemblyman Marc Berman, a Democrat whose district includes Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I don’t think the First Amendment applies to somebody’s ability to put fake words in my mouth.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Assemblyman Marc Berman","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Berman, chair of the Assembly’s election committee, has introduced a bill that would make it illegal to “knowingly or recklessly” share “deceptive audio or visual media” of a political candidate within 60 days of an election “with the intent to injure the candidate’s reputation or to deceive a voter into voting for or against the candidate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would apply to state-of-the-art deepfakes, as well as to lower tech fabrications. It also makes an exception if the video or audio has a clear disclaimer that digital monkey business has been performed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Libel and forgeries are hardly new phenomena in politics. But as technological developments make it increasingly difficult to sort fake from real news, and to crack down on the dissemination of false information once it finds its way online, lawmakers like Berman are struggling to find some way to fight back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to wake up after the 2020 election, like we did in 2016, and say, ‘dang, we should have done more,’” said Berman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is at least one limit on what can be done. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to free speech — making it unclear whether a ban on convincing video forgeries would pass constitutional muster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Civil Liberties Union of California, the California News Publishers Association and the California Broadcasters Association all oppose the bill on First Amendment grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill cleared a hurdle on Thursday by winning approval from a Senate committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, Whitney Prout, staff attorney with the publishers’ association, called the bill “an ineffective and frankly unconstitutional solution that causes more problems than it solves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Congress must tread carefully if it seeks to address the actual problem without censoring lawful and socially valuable speech — such as parodies and satires.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":" Electronic Frontier Foundation analysts","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She warned that, if enacted into law, it could discourage social media users from sharing any political content online, lest it be a fake and they be held legally liable. Another possible consequence, she said, is that campaigns plaster every attack ad with a deepfake disclosure to shield themselves from lawsuits, leaving the voting public even more confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law surrounding the First Amendment really has evolved in a pre-internet world,” said Louis Tompros, a partner at the law office of WilmerHale in Boston and a lecturer at Harvard. The enactment of laws such as the one Berman proposes would “force the courts to really reconcile the whole body of First Amendment law with these new phenomenon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The method behind “deepfakery” is technically sophisticated, but its producers don’t need to be. These days, anyone with access to a YouTube tutorial and enough computing power can produce their own videographic forgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101870062,science_1943376","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Hence the proliferation of so many comedic or satirical deepfakes. Some strive to make a point, like the one created by Peele or a more recent depiction of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/business/technology/mark-zuckerberg-deepfake-will-remain-online/2019/06/12/4171916e-a25b-4842-9bf6-f5d07512055a_video.html?utm_term=.efa39a49afbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bragging about stealing your data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are just internet-grade goofy. Consider the Q&A with the actress Jennifer Lawrence who speaks to reporters with the face of Steve Buscemi. (When shown the fake on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Buscemi seemed remarkably unfazed: “I’ve never looked better,” he said).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the technology has, of course, been used for seedier purposes. The most popular application seems to be pornographic, with online forgers digitally grafting the faces of Hollywood celebrities onto the bodies of adult film actresses — without the knowledge or consent of either party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Rana Ayyub, an Indian investigative journalist, the use was even more sinister. Last year, a fake sex video “starring” Ayyub was leaked online in an act of apparent retribution for her reporting that was sharply critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. As Ayyub told \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/deepfake-porn_uk_5bf2c126e4b0f32bd58ba316?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFn7uAoruECGNzWpzYqYO_NQMLqM6cYcWAtBMO4-MRmywYLQN3lFfiZCLAB_Nbmp6wDfpS-LxrSyB9Yt6M9srDAM9lAqoL43aBqiRm1XTPJLCaDF9BEXyCJC6XZQM2CwjE0aw7t5kOKoYMJP3LEc75cNOJbxx7Yy5-973ESE-szo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huffington Post\u003c/a>, the harassment and humiliation that followed sent her to the hospital with heart palpitations and led her to withdraw from online life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Berman introduced another bill that would give anyone involuntarily depicted in a sexually explicit video — including a digital fake — the right to sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it seems only a matter of time before someone attempts to use the method for political purposes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That conclusion was reinforced a few weeks ago when an edited video of \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/23/faked-pelosi-videos-slowed-make-her-appear-drunk-spread-across-social-media/?utm_term=.6dad5f36a763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nancy Pelosi went viral\u003c/a>, in which the Democratic Speaker of the House appeared to be slurring her words as if drunk or cognitively impaired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video wasn’t a deepfake. Rather than use machine-learning algorithms, its producers opted for the more primitive technological methods of slowing down the footage and raising the pitch of the voice. But it still elicited a wave of bipartisan angst about the threat that forged video poses to our democratic institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio characterized “very realistic fake videos” as a national security threat akin to aircraft carriers and nuclear weapons. And at a House hearing earlier this month, Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff from Burbank warned of the possible “nightmarish scenario” in which “a state-backed actor creates a deepfake video of a political candidate accepting a bribe.” Just as worrisome, he said, the mere existence of deepfakes allows bad actors to more convincingly dismiss real information as fake.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1020289722634076160"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>But some civil liberties groups are concerned that lawmakers will overreact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congress must tread carefully if it seeks to address the actual problem without censoring lawful and socially valuable speech — such as parodies and satires,” analysts with the Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote in response to the hearing. The Foundation said they are reviewing Berman’s bill and do not yet have a position on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tompros said it would be difficult to craft a law banning socially harmful deepfakes without sweeping up more traditional forms of political speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it a ‘deceptive audio or visual media’ if, for example, I take a ten minute very nuanced policy speech and I clip out five seconds in the middle where it sounds like the person is taking an extreme position?” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/lArPEDS0GTA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lArPEDS0GTA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Under that standard, a significant share of attack ads produced over the last half-century would be illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Berman’s proposal is much narrower than past legislative attempts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Assemblyman Ed Chau, a Democrat from Monterey Park, introduced a bill that would have banned the online dissemination of any false information about a political candidate. Chau pulled the bill in the face of fierce pushback from civil liberties groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The focus on video and audio specifically could put this year’s proposal on firmer legal ground, said Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor and founder of \u003ca href=\"https://reason.com/volokh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Volokh Conspiracy\u003c/a>, a law blog hosted by the libertarian magazine, Reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike a comment on climate change or the fiscal impact of tax legislation, where there is plenty of “dispute about what the actual truth is ... with altered video or altered images at least the person who is originating it will tend to know what’s true and what’s false,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Is it a ‘deceptive audio or visual media’ if, for example, I take a ten minute very nuanced policy speech and I clip out five seconds in the middle where it sounds like the person is taking an extreme position.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","label":"citation=' Louis Tompros, lawyer"},"numeric":["citation='","Louis","Tompros,","lawyer"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He points to the 24 states that have criminal defamation laws that make it a punishable offense to knowingly or recklessly spread false information about a person. The U.S. Supreme Court has generally allowed these laws to remain on the books, although civil liberties organizations are fighting to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berman said his bill falls into that same category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are restrictions around the First Amendment, including around the issue of fraud,” said Berman. “I don’t think the First Amendment applies to somebody’s ability to put fake words in my mouth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might have once been a figure of speech, but no more. In the latest iteration of the technology, a few researchers at Adobe and American and German universities, produced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohadf.com/projects/text-based-editing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new editing method\u003c/a> that allows anyone to insert new words into a video transcript and have a person in the video speak them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effect: using technology to literally put words into someone else’s mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the researchers showed their creations to a small survey of viewers, more than half mistook the fakes for the real thing.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11758994/can-california-crack-down-on-deepfakes-without-violating-the-first-amendment","authors":["byline_news_11758994"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13","news_248"],"tags":["news_335","news_26129","news_27370","news_4781","news_23960","news_177","news_353","news_22585"],"featImg":"news_11759002","label":"source_news_11758994"},"news_11744515":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11744515","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11744515","score":null,"sort":[1556824973000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"aclu-border-agents-violate-constitution-when-they-search-electronic-devices","title":"ACLU: Border Agents Violate Constitution When They Search Electronic Devices","publishDate":1556824973,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The American Civil Liberties Union says it has uncovered new evidence that federal border agents are violating the Constitution when they search travelers' electronic devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU, along with the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, sued the federal government in 2017, alleging that its \"warrantless and suspicionless searches\" of electronic devices at the U.S. ports of entry violated the First and Fourth amendments. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=”right” citation=\"ACLU statement\"]'Let's get one thing clear. The government cannot use the pretext of the 'border' to make an end run around the Constitution.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers now say that, through depositions of border agents, they have learned that the scope of the warrantless searches has expanded far beyond the mere enforcement of immigration and customs laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Border officers have the authority to search belongings for contraband, or to determine who is admissible into the U.S., the ACLU said. But agents now \"claim authority to search travelers' devices for general law enforcement purposes, such as looking for potential evidence of illegal activity beyond violations of immigration and customs laws,\" plaintiffs wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That claimed authority extends to enforcing 'hundreds' of federal laws, including tax, bankruptcy, environmental, and consumer protection laws. Defendants' asserted purposes for conducting warrantless or suspicionless device searches also include intelligence gathering or advancing pre-existing investigations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These practices violate the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the ACLU wrote. They also violate the First Amendment, attorneys said, because people traveling to the U.S. might censor themselves, knowing that a border agent might look through their phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/alasaad-v-mcaleenan-memorandum-support-motion-summary-judgment\">filing \u003c/a>this week in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, the lawyers asked the government to rule in their favor without a trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let's get one thing clear,\" the ACLU said in a statement. \"The government cannot use the pretext of the 'border' to make an end run around the Constitution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government has said its searches are necessary to protect the country. The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to an Associated Press request for comment; ICE and CBP said they would not comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was filed on behalf of 11 defendants, including a limousine driver, two journalists, and a NASA engineer. Ten of the plaintiffs are U.S. citizens, and one is a lawful permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11744162,news_11743074,news_11739952 label='More Coverage of the Border']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Searches of international travelers' electronic devices have \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-updated-border-search-electronic-device-directive-and\">spiked \u003c/a>in recent years. According to the lawsuit, border officers searched the smartphones and laptops of more than 33,000 international travelers in 2018 — an increase of almost 400% from three years earlier. Those searches, the complaint says, violate the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable search and seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Border searches of electronic devices intrude deeply on the private lives of all travelers and raise unique concerns for the journalists, lawyers, doctors, and others who carry particularly sensitive information about their news sources, clients, and patients,\" the attorneys wrote. They argued that the warrantless searches \"turn the border into a digital dragnet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2018-Jan/CBP-Directive-3340-049A-Border-Search-of-Electronic-Media-Compliant.pdf\">Customs and Border Protection policy\u003c/a> implemented in 2018 permits two kinds of searches: basic and advanced. In a basic search, an officer looks through an electronic device manually. In an advanced search, the officer connects external equipment to the device in order to review and sometimes copy its contents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CBP policy allows basic searches without any suspicion of wrongdoing; advanced searches require a \"reasonable suspicion of activity in violation of the laws enforced or administered by CBP\" or a \"national security concern.\" U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a similar policy permitting both basic and advanced searches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a legal filing, the agencies said their searches were \"a crucial tool for detecting evidence relating to terrorism and other national security matters\" and \"can also reveal information about financial and commercial crimes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those searches go far beyond what the Constitution allows, the ACLU lawsuit argues. \"The government cannot use the border to circumvent the Constitution,\" they wrote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=ACLU%3A+Border+Agents+Violate+Constitution+When+They+Search+Electronic+Devices&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"U.S. border agents improperly look for broad evidence of crimes when they search international travelers' phones and laptops without probable cause, civil rights groups argue.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1556825291,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":686},"headData":{"title":"ACLU: Border Agents Violate Constitution When They Search Electronic Devices | KQED","description":"U.S. border agents improperly look for broad evidence of crimes when they search international travelers' phones and laptops without probable cause, civil rights groups argue.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"ACLU: Border Agents Violate Constitution When They Search Electronic Devices","datePublished":"2019-05-02T19:22:53.000Z","dateModified":"2019-05-02T19:28:11.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11744515 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11744515","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/05/02/aclu-border-agents-violate-constitution-when-they-search-electronic-devices/","disqusTitle":"ACLU: Border Agents Violate Constitution When They Search Electronic Devices","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Eric Risberg","nprByline":"Matthew S. Schwartz","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"719337356","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=719337356&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/02/719337356/aclu-border-agents-violate-constitution-when-they-search-electronic-devices?ft=nprml&f=719337356","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 02 May 2019 08:44:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 02 May 2019 05:10:57 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 02 May 2019 08:44:16 -0400","path":"/news/11744515/aclu-border-agents-violate-constitution-when-they-search-electronic-devices","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The American Civil Liberties Union says it has uncovered new evidence that federal border agents are violating the Constitution when they search travelers' electronic devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU, along with the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, sued the federal government in 2017, alleging that its \"warrantless and suspicionless searches\" of electronic devices at the U.S. ports of entry violated the First and Fourth amendments. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Let's get one thing clear. The government cannot use the pretext of the 'border' to make an end run around the Constitution.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"”right”","citation":"ACLU statement","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers now say that, through depositions of border agents, they have learned that the scope of the warrantless searches has expanded far beyond the mere enforcement of immigration and customs laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Border officers have the authority to search belongings for contraband, or to determine who is admissible into the U.S., the ACLU said. But agents now \"claim authority to search travelers' devices for general law enforcement purposes, such as looking for potential evidence of illegal activity beyond violations of immigration and customs laws,\" plaintiffs wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That claimed authority extends to enforcing 'hundreds' of federal laws, including tax, bankruptcy, environmental, and consumer protection laws. Defendants' asserted purposes for conducting warrantless or suspicionless device searches also include intelligence gathering or advancing pre-existing investigations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These practices violate the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the ACLU wrote. They also violate the First Amendment, attorneys said, because people traveling to the U.S. might censor themselves, knowing that a border agent might look through their phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/alasaad-v-mcaleenan-memorandum-support-motion-summary-judgment\">filing \u003c/a>this week in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, the lawyers asked the government to rule in their favor without a trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let's get one thing clear,\" the ACLU said in a statement. \"The government cannot use the pretext of the 'border' to make an end run around the Constitution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government has said its searches are necessary to protect the country. The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to an Associated Press request for comment; ICE and CBP said they would not comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was filed on behalf of 11 defendants, including a limousine driver, two journalists, and a NASA engineer. Ten of the plaintiffs are U.S. citizens, and one is a lawful permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11744162,news_11743074,news_11739952","label":"More Coverage of the Border "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Searches of international travelers' electronic devices have \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-updated-border-search-electronic-device-directive-and\">spiked \u003c/a>in recent years. According to the lawsuit, border officers searched the smartphones and laptops of more than 33,000 international travelers in 2018 — an increase of almost 400% from three years earlier. Those searches, the complaint says, violate the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable search and seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Border searches of electronic devices intrude deeply on the private lives of all travelers and raise unique concerns for the journalists, lawyers, doctors, and others who carry particularly sensitive information about their news sources, clients, and patients,\" the attorneys wrote. They argued that the warrantless searches \"turn the border into a digital dragnet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2018-Jan/CBP-Directive-3340-049A-Border-Search-of-Electronic-Media-Compliant.pdf\">Customs and Border Protection policy\u003c/a> implemented in 2018 permits two kinds of searches: basic and advanced. In a basic search, an officer looks through an electronic device manually. In an advanced search, the officer connects external equipment to the device in order to review and sometimes copy its contents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CBP policy allows basic searches without any suspicion of wrongdoing; advanced searches require a \"reasonable suspicion of activity in violation of the laws enforced or administered by CBP\" or a \"national security concern.\" U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a similar policy permitting both basic and advanced searches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a legal filing, the agencies said their searches were \"a crucial tool for detecting evidence relating to terrorism and other national security matters\" and \"can also reveal information about financial and commercial crimes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those searches go far beyond what the Constitution allows, the ACLU lawsuit argues. \"The government cannot use the border to circumvent the Constitution,\" they wrote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=ACLU%3A+Border+Agents+Violate+Constitution+When+They+Search+Electronic+Devices&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11744515/aclu-border-agents-violate-constitution-when-they-search-electronic-devices","authors":["byline_news_11744515"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_350","news_24736","news_21200","news_22844","news_1323","news_4781","news_23138","news_2125","news_20529","news_21038","news_6197"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11744516","label":"source_news_11744515"},"news_11742529":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11742529","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11742529","score":null,"sort":[1556408930000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"report-warns-a-i-algorithms-not-quite-ready-for-prime-time-in-criminal-justice","title":"Report Warns A.I. Algorithms Not Quite Ready for Prime Time in Criminal Justice","publishDate":1556408930,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days, including in the criminal justice system. But a \u003ca href=\"https://www.partnershiponai.org/report-on-machine-learning-in-risk-assessment-tools-in-the-u-s-criminal-justice-system/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new report\u003c/a> out Friday joins a \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chorus\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://witnessla.com/op-ed-predictive-algorithms-in-the-justice-system-must-have-aggressive-oversight/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">of\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/if-pre-trial-risk-assessment-tool-does-not-satisfy-these-criteria-it-needs-stay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voices\u003c/a> warning that the software isn’t ready for the task. \u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You need to understand as you're deploying these tools that they're extremely approximate, extremely inaccurate,\" said Peter Eckersley, research director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.partnershiponai.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Partnership on A.I.\u003c/a>, a consortium of Silicon Valley heavyweights and civil liberties groups that helped published the report. \"And that if you think of them as 'Minority Report,' you've gotten it entirely wrong,\" he added, referencing the Steven Spielberg science fiction blockbuster from 2002 that's become a kind of shorthand for all allusions to predictive policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG7DGMgfOb8]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study — \"Algorithmic Risk Assessment Tools in the U.S. Criminal Justice System\" — scrutinizes how A.I. is increasingly being used throughout the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algorithmic software crunches data about an individual along with statistics about groups that person belongs to. What level of education did this individual attain? How many criminal offenses did this individual commit before the age of 18? What is the likelihood of, say, skipping bail for individuals who never finished high school and committed two crimes before the age of 18?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can seem like the software bypasses human errors in assessing that risk. But the report homes in on the issue of machine learning bias: When humans feed biased or inaccurate information into software programs, making those systems biased as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An example (not mentioned in the report): The \u003ca href=\"https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/findings/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford Open Policing Project\u003c/a> recently reported that law enforcement officers nationwide tend to stop African-American drivers at higher rates than white drivers and to search, ticket and arrest African-American and Latino drivers during traffic stops more often than whites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any evaluation software that incorporates a data set like this on traffic stops could then potentially deliver racially biased recommendations, the Stanford researchers note, even if the software doesn't include racial data \u003cem>per se\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Standards need to be set for these tools,\" Eckersley said. \"And if you were to ever try to use them to decide to detain someone, the tools would need to meet those standards. And, unfortunately, none of the tools presently do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, 49 of 58 counties in California use some kind of algorithmic risk assessment tool for bail, sentencing and/or probation. And a new bill in the state Legislature would require all counties to use it for bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11689184,news_11693624,news_11728806\" label=\"What is the Bail Reform Law?\"]Senate Bill 10 offers no guidance for how counties should calculate risk levels or protect against unintentional discriminatory outcomes. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/policyadmin-jc.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judicial Council\u003c/a>, the policymaking body of the California courts, would approve tools if and when the law goes into effect, but would stop short of assessing results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a number of risk assessment tools, most of which are not using artificial intelligence but instead, paper, pencil and a professional human's judgement. Mary Butler, Napa County's chief probation officer, said her agency uses three risk assessment tools, with the intend of providing recommendations to a presiding judge, but she said they also determine how best to help the individual in question succeed at establishing a life outside of prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The needs part is as important as the risk part, because it helps to change their behavior,\" she said. \"I can’t change, for example, the age when someone was first arrested, but if that’s the only thing I consider, then yeah, I could be biased a result. But when I tie that into everything else going on in that person’s life, and their areas of need, it's a really good tool.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that assessments made by her agency are shared with everybody involved. \"We give the offender the results,\" she said. \"We give that information to the court. The attorneys have it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small number of California law enforcement agencies are also using artificial intelligence. Two of the more popular products are \u003ca href=\"https://www.equivant.com/compas-classification/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS)\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.psapretrial.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Safety Assessment (PSA)\u003c/a>. COMPAS has been used by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation\u003c/a>. PSA is in use in San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Tulare Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11619469\"]But some of these programs, like COMPAS, are proprietary products, which means their owners don't share the source code in order to protect their intellectual property. In doing so, they prevent defendants from challenging the integrity of the models.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That also blocks independent researchers from being able to study and identify flaws in the programs, and prevents lawmakers from knowing what kind of improvements they should push for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Partnership on A.I., the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/if-pre-trial-risk-assessment-tool-does-not-satisfy-these-criteria-it-needs-stay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a> has publicly expressed doubts about the rollout of the new bail law, SB 10, for this very reason. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/if-pre-trial-risk-assessment-tool-does-not-satisfy-these-criteria-it-needs-stay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In an opinion piece on its website\u003c/a>, the EFF argued, \"The public must have access to the source code and the materials used to develop these tools, and the results of regular independent audits of the system, to ensure tools are not unfairly detaining innocent people or disproportionately affecting specific classes of people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A different bill that cleared the state Senate this week, however, could set a lot of minds at ease. SB 36 would \u003ca href=\"https://sd18.senate.ca.gov/news/4252019-hertzberg-bill-regulate-pretrial-risk-assessment-tools-clears-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">establish guidelines\u003c/a> regarding the use of risk assessment tools, including data collection, transparency requirements and regular review and validation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, as it's written now, would prevent any risk assessment software tools that block access to their source code. That bill heads to the state Assembly next.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Proprietary A.I. programs prevent defendants from challenging the integrity of the models and stop researchers from being able to study potential flaws.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1556557042,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":953},"headData":{"title":"Report Warns A.I. Algorithms Not Quite Ready for Prime Time in Criminal Justice | KQED","description":"Proprietary A.I. programs prevent defendants from challenging the integrity of the models and stop researchers from being able to study potential flaws.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Report Warns A.I. 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Algorithms Not Quite Ready for Prime Time in Criminal Justice","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/04/AlgorithmMyrowTCRAM.mp3","audioTrackLength":131,"path":"/news/11742529/report-warns-a-i-algorithms-not-quite-ready-for-prime-time-in-criminal-justice","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days, including in the criminal justice system. But a \u003ca href=\"https://www.partnershiponai.org/report-on-machine-learning-in-risk-assessment-tools-in-the-u-s-criminal-justice-system/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new report\u003c/a> out Friday joins a \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chorus\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://witnessla.com/op-ed-predictive-algorithms-in-the-justice-system-must-have-aggressive-oversight/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">of\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/if-pre-trial-risk-assessment-tool-does-not-satisfy-these-criteria-it-needs-stay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voices\u003c/a> warning that the software isn’t ready for the task. \u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You need to understand as you're deploying these tools that they're extremely approximate, extremely inaccurate,\" said Peter Eckersley, research director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.partnershiponai.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Partnership on A.I.\u003c/a>, a consortium of Silicon Valley heavyweights and civil liberties groups that helped published the report. \"And that if you think of them as 'Minority Report,' you've gotten it entirely wrong,\" he added, referencing the Steven Spielberg science fiction blockbuster from 2002 that's become a kind of shorthand for all allusions to predictive policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/lG7DGMgfOb8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lG7DGMgfOb8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study — \"Algorithmic Risk Assessment Tools in the U.S. Criminal Justice System\" — scrutinizes how A.I. is increasingly being used throughout the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algorithmic software crunches data about an individual along with statistics about groups that person belongs to. What level of education did this individual attain? How many criminal offenses did this individual commit before the age of 18? What is the likelihood of, say, skipping bail for individuals who never finished high school and committed two crimes before the age of 18?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can seem like the software bypasses human errors in assessing that risk. But the report homes in on the issue of machine learning bias: When humans feed biased or inaccurate information into software programs, making those systems biased as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An example (not mentioned in the report): The \u003ca href=\"https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/findings/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford Open Policing Project\u003c/a> recently reported that law enforcement officers nationwide tend to stop African-American drivers at higher rates than white drivers and to search, ticket and arrest African-American and Latino drivers during traffic stops more often than whites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any evaluation software that incorporates a data set like this on traffic stops could then potentially deliver racially biased recommendations, the Stanford researchers note, even if the software doesn't include racial data \u003cem>per se\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Standards need to be set for these tools,\" Eckersley said. \"And if you were to ever try to use them to decide to detain someone, the tools would need to meet those standards. And, unfortunately, none of the tools presently do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, 49 of 58 counties in California use some kind of algorithmic risk assessment tool for bail, sentencing and/or probation. And a new bill in the state Legislature would require all counties to use it for bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11689184,news_11693624,news_11728806","label":"What is the Bail Reform Law? "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Senate Bill 10 offers no guidance for how counties should calculate risk levels or protect against unintentional discriminatory outcomes. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/policyadmin-jc.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judicial Council\u003c/a>, the policymaking body of the California courts, would approve tools if and when the law goes into effect, but would stop short of assessing results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a number of risk assessment tools, most of which are not using artificial intelligence but instead, paper, pencil and a professional human's judgement. Mary Butler, Napa County's chief probation officer, said her agency uses three risk assessment tools, with the intend of providing recommendations to a presiding judge, but she said they also determine how best to help the individual in question succeed at establishing a life outside of prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The needs part is as important as the risk part, because it helps to change their behavior,\" she said. \"I can’t change, for example, the age when someone was first arrested, but if that’s the only thing I consider, then yeah, I could be biased a result. But when I tie that into everything else going on in that person’s life, and their areas of need, it's a really good tool.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that assessments made by her agency are shared with everybody involved. \"We give the offender the results,\" she said. \"We give that information to the court. The attorneys have it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small number of California law enforcement agencies are also using artificial intelligence. Two of the more popular products are \u003ca href=\"https://www.equivant.com/compas-classification/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS)\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.psapretrial.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Safety Assessment (PSA)\u003c/a>. COMPAS has been used by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation\u003c/a>. PSA is in use in San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Tulare Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11619469","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But some of these programs, like COMPAS, are proprietary products, which means their owners don't share the source code in order to protect their intellectual property. In doing so, they prevent defendants from challenging the integrity of the models.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That also blocks independent researchers from being able to study and identify flaws in the programs, and prevents lawmakers from knowing what kind of improvements they should push for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Partnership on A.I., the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/if-pre-trial-risk-assessment-tool-does-not-satisfy-these-criteria-it-needs-stay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a> has publicly expressed doubts about the rollout of the new bail law, SB 10, for this very reason. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/if-pre-trial-risk-assessment-tool-does-not-satisfy-these-criteria-it-needs-stay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In an opinion piece on its website\u003c/a>, the EFF argued, \"The public must have access to the source code and the materials used to develop these tools, and the results of regular independent audits of the system, to ensure tools are not unfairly detaining innocent people or disproportionately affecting specific classes of people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A different bill that cleared the state Senate this week, however, could set a lot of minds at ease. SB 36 would \u003ca href=\"https://sd18.senate.ca.gov/news/4252019-hertzberg-bill-regulate-pretrial-risk-assessment-tools-clears-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">establish guidelines\u003c/a> regarding the use of risk assessment tools, including data collection, transparency requirements and regular review and validation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, as it's written now, would prevent any risk assessment software tools that block access to their source code. That bill heads to the state Assembly next.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11742529/report-warns-a-i-algorithms-not-quite-ready-for-prime-time-in-criminal-justice","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13","news_248"],"tags":["news_25184","news_2114","news_17725","news_4781","news_19542","news_24778","news_2011","news_353"],"featImg":"news_11743370","label":"news_72"},"news_11713801":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11713801","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11713801","score":null,"sort":[1545935332000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"facebooks-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year","title":"Facebook's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year","publishDate":1545935332,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Have you decided to quit Facebook yet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not an idle question. This holiday season, a notable number of my \"friends\" on the social network are openly contemplating quitting; as if they were making a list of New Year's resolutions and a clean break from the mesmerizing newsfeed seemed a sensible addition to goals like losing ten pounds and calling mom more often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, we learned that Facebook's bid for global growth led it to willfully ignore warnings that the platform was being used to confuse and manipulate users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, there were stories about widespread data breaches, political manipulation and even race baiting that led to real world violence. For a company that likes to tout its ability to bring communities together, Facebook has been struggling to maintain the image of a good corporate citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the year began, Facebook was already on the defensive trying to explain why Russian actors were able to attempt to sway voters with such apparent freedom and sophistication during the 2016 presidential election. Then Congress wanted in on the public conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is \u003ca href=\"https://eshoo.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Eshoo\u003c/a>, one of Silicon Valley’s congressional representatives, grilling Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg back in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CaJoQk9VLc]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The congressional hearings followed explosive reports that the British political consulting firm \u003ca href=\"https://cambridgeanalytica.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cambridge Analytica\u003c/a> had access to detailed, personal information on millions of Facebook users during 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as that story scandalized the world, it also lifted the curtain on Facebook’s business model, built on offering detailed, personal information to all kinds of advertisers. The pitch is this: more than two billion monthly, active users you can sift through to target specific interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve known for a long time that these algorithms were at risk of manipulation,\" said Kurt Wagner, who covers social media for the technology news outfit \u003ca href=\"https://www.recode.net/authors/kurt-wagner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recode.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What 2018 did was kind of open everyone’s eyes to the fact that it can also be manipulated for much more sinister purposes, which is what we saw around the 2016 election, trying to turn people against one another by stoking these really important but divisive issues,\" Wagner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stoking continues, as does the ribbing from comedy shows like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday Night Live\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8UZn7PmyXc]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also impossible in 2018 to ignore a growing number of reports about Facebook failing to address race-baiting and even violence in countries like Malaysia and Nigeria, where the social platform has expanded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has since begun hiring tens of thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702239/why-its-so-hard-to-scrub-hate-speech-off-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hate speech screeners\u003c/a> and it works more closely now with third parties to bolster its efforts to clean up its platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, the companies were caught flat-footed. But they probably shouldn’t have been, given that there were people warning about this for years prior,\" said academic researcher \u003ca href=\"http://aviv.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aviv Ovadya\u003c/a>, who is launching a nonprofit focused on technology’s impact on the information ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ovadya argued we’re careening toward a future where the ability to distort reality shakes the foundations of democracy. Also, that Facebook is so big, it might want to think about independent advisory boards for each of its individual products in every geographic region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11714414\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/MaxineW-1180x909-800x616.jpg\" alt='\"87 percent or so of the people who use Facebook are not in North America,\" Maxine Williams, head of global diversity for Facebook, told KQED in July, 2018. \"Think about what the world looks like. It is such an incredibly diverse space. But what we have a responsibility to be is more diverse, more perspectives, more people who can reflect that diversity in the world.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/MaxineW-1180x909-800x616.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/MaxineW-1180x909-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/MaxineW-1180x909-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/MaxineW-1180x909.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"87 percent or so of the people who use Facebook are not in North America,\" Maxine Williams, head of global diversity for Facebook, told KQED in July 2018. \"Think about what the world looks like. It is such an incredibly diverse space. But what we have a responsibility to be is more diverse, more perspectives, more people who can reflect that diversity in the world.\" \u003ccite>(Steve Jennings/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For instance, an advisory board for not only WhatsApp in Malaysia, but also the Rohingya community on WhatsApp in Malaysia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Companies like Facebook need better ways of interfacing with third parties in order to actually gain advice and contacts about what the impacts of what they’re doing have on the world,\" Ovadya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ovadya was much gentler in his criticism than the Hungarian businessman George Soros, who reportedly inspired a Facebook smear campaign after he laid into the social media giant at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, arguing that Facebook and Google are threatening democratic government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There could be an alliance between authoritarian states and these large, data-rich IT monopolies that would bring together nascent systems of corporate surveillance with an already developed system of state-sponsored surveillance,\" Soros said. \"This may well result in a web of totalitarian control the likes of which not even Aldous Huxley or George Orwell could have imagined.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaHzUlR2MUg]Soros was simply following in the footsteps of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMotykw0SIk&t=9s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chamath Palihapitiya\u003c/a>, an early senior executive at Facebook, who argued along similar lines in November 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As this year winds to a close, media coverage continues to direct the public narrative about Facebook, increasingly with the help of former employees like Palihapitiya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's how we learned explosive tidbits like the recent revelation the company allowed other tech giants access to content many Facebook users would find invasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Netflix and Spotify, for example, were able to read Facebook users’ private messages. Sony, Microsoft, Amazon and were able to glean users’ email addresses through their friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some angry users have started a #DeleteFacebook movement. But it's not clear there are enough people so upset they’d be willing to quit Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp altogether -- that would be the market signal that pressures the company to change in a big way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Facebook and its subsidiaries continue to rake in huge profits from advertising to their global customer base of billions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11714419\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut-800x677.jpg\" alt=\"Still on Instagram? You're still in Facebook's influence-directing orbit, and recent media reports document Instagram is rife with fake ads and Russian trollers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut-800x677.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut-160x135.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut-1020x864.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut-1200x1016.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut.jpg 1396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still on Instagram? You're still in Facebook's influence-directing orbit, and recent media reports document Instagram is rife with fake ads and Russian trollers. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>How Facebook will do in 2019 depends on its willingness to become more transparent, Ovadya said. But others, like Wagner of Recode, aren’t so sure. Wagner said Facebook has a consumer trust issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t think it’s the kind of thing that can be fixed with a marketing campaign. I don’t think Mark Zuckerberg can go on the \u003cem>Today Show\u003c/em> and say something really witty that’s going to make people think that he or the company has changed,\" he said. \"So I think that’s the company’s toughest challenge. How do you regain trust once you’ve lost it? I don’t know if it’s even possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In 2018, exposes of Facebook have destroyed what trust users still clung to that the social media giant respected their privacy.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1547598090,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1132},"headData":{"title":"Facebook's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year | KQED","description":"In 2018, exposes of Facebook have destroyed what trust users still clung to that the social media giant respected their privacy.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Facebook's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year","datePublished":"2018-12-27T18:28:52.000Z","dateModified":"2019-01-16T00:21:30.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11713801 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11713801","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/12/27/facebooks-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year/","disqusTitle":"Facebook's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/01/MyrowFacebooksBadYear.mp3","audioTrackLength":311,"path":"/news/11713801/facebooks-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Have you decided to quit Facebook yet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not an idle question. This holiday season, a notable number of my \"friends\" on the social network are openly contemplating quitting; as if they were making a list of New Year's resolutions and a clean break from the mesmerizing newsfeed seemed a sensible addition to goals like losing ten pounds and calling mom more often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, we learned that Facebook's bid for global growth led it to willfully ignore warnings that the platform was being used to confuse and manipulate users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, there were stories about widespread data breaches, political manipulation and even race baiting that led to real world violence. For a company that likes to tout its ability to bring communities together, Facebook has been struggling to maintain the image of a good corporate citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the year began, Facebook was already on the defensive trying to explain why Russian actors were able to attempt to sway voters with such apparent freedom and sophistication during the 2016 presidential election. Then Congress wanted in on the public conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is \u003ca href=\"https://eshoo.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Eshoo\u003c/a>, one of Silicon Valley’s congressional representatives, grilling Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg back in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/2CaJoQk9VLc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/2CaJoQk9VLc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The congressional hearings followed explosive reports that the British political consulting firm \u003ca href=\"https://cambridgeanalytica.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cambridge Analytica\u003c/a> had access to detailed, personal information on millions of Facebook users during 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as that story scandalized the world, it also lifted the curtain on Facebook’s business model, built on offering detailed, personal information to all kinds of advertisers. The pitch is this: more than two billion monthly, active users you can sift through to target specific interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve known for a long time that these algorithms were at risk of manipulation,\" said Kurt Wagner, who covers social media for the technology news outfit \u003ca href=\"https://www.recode.net/authors/kurt-wagner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recode.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What 2018 did was kind of open everyone’s eyes to the fact that it can also be manipulated for much more sinister purposes, which is what we saw around the 2016 election, trying to turn people against one another by stoking these really important but divisive issues,\" Wagner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stoking continues, as does the ribbing from comedy shows like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday Night Live\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Z8UZn7PmyXc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Z8UZn7PmyXc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also impossible in 2018 to ignore a growing number of reports about Facebook failing to address race-baiting and even violence in countries like Malaysia and Nigeria, where the social platform has expanded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has since begun hiring tens of thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702239/why-its-so-hard-to-scrub-hate-speech-off-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hate speech screeners\u003c/a> and it works more closely now with third parties to bolster its efforts to clean up its platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, the companies were caught flat-footed. But they probably shouldn’t have been, given that there were people warning about this for years prior,\" said academic researcher \u003ca href=\"http://aviv.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aviv Ovadya\u003c/a>, who is launching a nonprofit focused on technology’s impact on the information ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ovadya argued we’re careening toward a future where the ability to distort reality shakes the foundations of democracy. Also, that Facebook is so big, it might want to think about independent advisory boards for each of its individual products in every geographic region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11714414\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/MaxineW-1180x909-800x616.jpg\" alt='\"87 percent or so of the people who use Facebook are not in North America,\" Maxine Williams, head of global diversity for Facebook, told KQED in July, 2018. \"Think about what the world looks like. It is such an incredibly diverse space. But what we have a responsibility to be is more diverse, more perspectives, more people who can reflect that diversity in the world.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/MaxineW-1180x909-800x616.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/MaxineW-1180x909-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/MaxineW-1180x909-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/MaxineW-1180x909.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"87 percent or so of the people who use Facebook are not in North America,\" Maxine Williams, head of global diversity for Facebook, told KQED in July 2018. \"Think about what the world looks like. It is such an incredibly diverse space. But what we have a responsibility to be is more diverse, more perspectives, more people who can reflect that diversity in the world.\" \u003ccite>(Steve Jennings/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For instance, an advisory board for not only WhatsApp in Malaysia, but also the Rohingya community on WhatsApp in Malaysia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Companies like Facebook need better ways of interfacing with third parties in order to actually gain advice and contacts about what the impacts of what they’re doing have on the world,\" Ovadya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ovadya was much gentler in his criticism than the Hungarian businessman George Soros, who reportedly inspired a Facebook smear campaign after he laid into the social media giant at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, arguing that Facebook and Google are threatening democratic government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There could be an alliance between authoritarian states and these large, data-rich IT monopolies that would bring together nascent systems of corporate surveillance with an already developed system of state-sponsored surveillance,\" Soros said. \"This may well result in a web of totalitarian control the likes of which not even Aldous Huxley or George Orwell could have imagined.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/WaHzUlR2MUg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/WaHzUlR2MUg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Soros was simply following in the footsteps of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMotykw0SIk&t=9s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chamath Palihapitiya\u003c/a>, an early senior executive at Facebook, who argued along similar lines in November 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As this year winds to a close, media coverage continues to direct the public narrative about Facebook, increasingly with the help of former employees like Palihapitiya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's how we learned explosive tidbits like the recent revelation the company allowed other tech giants access to content many Facebook users would find invasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Netflix and Spotify, for example, were able to read Facebook users’ private messages. Sony, Microsoft, Amazon and were able to glean users’ email addresses through their friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some angry users have started a #DeleteFacebook movement. But it's not clear there are enough people so upset they’d be willing to quit Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp altogether -- that would be the market signal that pressures the company to change in a big way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Facebook and its subsidiaries continue to rake in huge profits from advertising to their global customer base of billions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11714419\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut-800x677.jpg\" alt=\"Still on Instagram? You're still in Facebook's influence-directing orbit, and recent media reports document Instagram is rife with fake ads and Russian trollers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut-800x677.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut-160x135.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut-1020x864.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut-1200x1016.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut.jpg 1396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still on Instagram? You're still in Facebook's influence-directing orbit, and recent media reports document Instagram is rife with fake ads and Russian trollers. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>How Facebook will do in 2019 depends on its willingness to become more transparent, Ovadya said. But others, like Wagner of Recode, aren’t so sure. Wagner said Facebook has a consumer trust issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t think it’s the kind of thing that can be fixed with a marketing campaign. I don’t think Mark Zuckerberg can go on the \u003cem>Today Show\u003c/em> and say something really witty that’s going to make people think that he or the company has changed,\" he said. \"So I think that’s the company’s toughest challenge. How do you regain trust once you’ve lost it? I don’t know if it’s even possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11713801/facebooks-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year","authors":["251"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_4781","news_249","news_6262","news_2451","news_250","news_20627","news_2011","news_353","news_5800"],"featImg":"news_11714401","label":"news"},"news_11665181":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11665181","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11665181","score":null,"sort":[1525292925000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-internet-really-did-lead-to-an-explosion-of-creative-content-good-bad-and-ugly","title":"The Internet Really Did Lead to an Explosion of Creative Content: Good, Bad and Ugly","publishDate":1525292925,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Reassessing Our Relationship With Technology | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the second story in a three-part series reassessing predictions made about the internet in 1993 on KQED's air. For the first story, head \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665625/virtual-worlds-reassessing-our-tech-predictions-25-years-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. For the third story, head \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665681/innovation-in-east-oakland-the-realities-of-keeping-up-outside-of-silicon-valleys-bubble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's go to 1993 -- years before Facebook, Instagram or YouTube became a thing. KQED sent out its Silicon Valley reporter Peter Jon Shuler to look into the early promise of the internet, to explore a new idea -- that this new complex network would enable and encourage us to make our own creative stuff: photos, movies, music and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea that, armed with the latest digital gadgets, individuals and communities will shake off the mindless passivity of couch potato consumerism and actually talk back,\" former KQED host Harry Lin intoned, leading into Shuler's piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, what was a projection is now a reality. In a matter of minutes, I can upload a video of my cat Bear onto YouTube. Apple's photo program makes it easy to build a slideshow after its filters and trimming tools helps me touch up the not-so-good snaps. Adobe's Audition allows me to merge a recording of Bear purring with a rendition of \"Sunday Kind of Love\" -- a rendition my sister Shira Myrow recorded and sent to me from her home studio. To top it all off, #tags help a larger public find my upload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1tZ84j5Kos]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technology has in many ways democratized the means of creative production. And some say it may also soon surpass humans in producing creative content through artificial intelligence, but that's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13819186/are-computers-becoming-better-at-composing-music-than-humans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another story\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OK, so back again to 1993, when Shuler talked about a word coined by the futurist \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/books/alvin-toffler-author-of-future-shock-dies-at-87.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alvin Toffler\u003c/a>: prosumer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had a slightly different meaning in mind when he fused the word producer and consumer, but \"prosuming\" seems an apt label for the kind of free-flowing give-and-take now practiced by users of the net,\" Shuler explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Free-flowing give-and-take was the intent behind the Internet Underground Music Archive. Now defunct, it was an \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">archived\u003c/a> website dedicated to helping music lovers find the kind of obscure music that labels weren't signing or promoting. IUMA was started by two computer science majors at UC Santa Cruz, Jeff Patterson and Robert Lord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11665509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-800x532.jpeg\" alt=\"What A Halo Called Fred looked like in 1994. From left to right: Jim Bob Rubbernecker, Brushwood Thicket Farmer and Geverend Dee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-1200x799.jpeg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-1180x785.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-960x639.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-520x346.jpeg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994.jpeg 1695w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What A Halo Called Fred looked like in 1994. From left to right: Jim Bob Rubbernecker, Brushwood Thicket Farmer and Geverend Dee. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Ken Collins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lord told Shuler, \"The music Jeff and I both appreciate the most tends to be hard to find, mostly imports or on labels that aren't widely distributed types of music.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, Shuler kicked off his story with music from an obscure band called \u003ca href=\"http://ahalocalledfred.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Halo Called Fred\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This music, as they say, is not available in stores,\" Shuler said in his piece. \"And this may be the only time you'll hear it on the radio. But thanks to the Internet Underground Music Archive you can hear it online 24 hours a day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it happens, A Halo Called Fred is still making music, and it's still uploading it to the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L44pX9GsCVs]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, I don't know if I would call these guys prosumers. After all, musicians have been working day jobs since the beginning of time. Some hustle until they make it big. Others never make it big and simply hustle till they drop. There have always been more people who want to be superstars than can be, for a wide variety of reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What can be said is that the internet did make it possible for musicians of all kinds to post music where it can be heard 24 hours a day. Thanks to the Internet Underground Music Archive and other start-ups like it, music distribution become substantially cheaper, too, and the universe of music did expand as more people uploaded more creative work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just because you put a song out there in the world, doesn't mean anyone is going to listen to it without a heck of a lot of promotion of the right kind. And big media companies are fighting as hard as ever to stay in the mix -- to keep your ears and eyeballs glued to their content. Ariana Grande is not tops on the iTunes charts just because she’s talented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffxKSjUwKdU]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republic Records, backed by Universal Music Group, puts a lot of creative and marketing muscle behind her, and that propels her onto our laptops and phones in a way that's typically more compelling to more people than anything you or I could create as \"prosumers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can also be said that the expanded universe of amateur \"content creators\" has helped to change tastes in such a way that many of us prefer, or at least enjoy, communication that looks as if it hasn't been heavily produced. Even if it's not really amateur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new breed of \"social media influencers\" has risen to the top of the popularity charts, including people like Jake Joseph Paul, who rose to significant fame on the now-defunct video application Vine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gn4RAuahHw]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 14 million subscribers to his YouTube channel, Paul's not a civilian entertainer. But he's not what people in 1993 pictured when they pictured an actor, or a filmmaker. He's famous for being Paul, and repeatedly saying the word \"peace\" in a slightly obnoxious way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one person Shuler talked to back in ’93 predicted this would happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of 50 channels with nothing on, we're going to have 500 channels with nothing on,\" said Jerry Berman, then executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665518\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11665518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-160x237.jpeg\" alt=\"KQED's Peter Jon Shuler, circa 1993, quite possibly working on this very story.\" width=\"160\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-160x237.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-800x1183.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-1020x1508.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-812x1200.jpeg 812w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-1180x1745.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-960x1420.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-240x355.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-375x555.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-520x769.jpeg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview.jpeg 1385w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED's Peter Jon Shuler, circa 1993, quite possibly working on this very story. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Peter Jon Shuler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Many of these companies have a much narrower vision of the information highway, and they think of really building a lot of capacity to deliver information downstream. In other words, from a station or a cable company to the consumer, but not a lot of bandwidth or the capability of the consumer to reach back or to reach out to other consumers,\" Berman said 25 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And 25 years later, Shuler thinks Berman nailed it on the head. \"I don't think he was guessing. I think he knew what was coming. A very big signal focused at you, at the consumer, and tiny little signal reaching out pushing the other way,\" Shuler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I dunno. Nobody forces you to watch crapola. But if you don’t pay attention, your attention will be directed and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11626859/how-russian-trolls-used-silicon-valleys-influence-to-create-divisions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manipulated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11665511 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Still at it today, KQED's Peter Jon Shuler interviews Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-1180x787.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview.jpeg 1368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still at it today, KQED's Peter Jon Shuler interviews Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Peter Jon Shuler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I dug up Internet Underground Music Archive co-founder Jeff Patterson, and he told me he’s a little horrified about what’s happened to music since he and another UC Santa Cruz student started IUMA back in the day. Patterson calls what we have now a kind of “idiocracy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What’s surfacing to the top isn’t necessarily what’s good. You know, you have all this access to all the information you want to discover. You find yourself in front of YouTube watching cat videos, and the promise of the internet -- it’s been fulfilled, but it’s also frightening,\" Patterson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that there’s necessarily anything wrong with cat videos.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Are people more or less passive as consumers of creative content in the age of the internet?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1527809030,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1286},"headData":{"title":"The Internet Really Did Lead to an Explosion of Creative Content: Good, Bad and Ugly | KQED","description":"Are people more or less passive as consumers of creative content in the age of the internet?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Internet Really Did Lead to an Explosion of Creative Content: Good, Bad and Ugly","datePublished":"2018-05-02T20:28:45.000Z","dateModified":"2018-05-31T23:23:50.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11665181 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11665181","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/05/02/the-internet-really-did-lead-to-an-explosion-of-creative-content-good-bad-and-ugly/","disqusTitle":"The Internet Really Did Lead to an Explosion of Creative Content: Good, Bad and Ugly","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/05/MyrowAgeoftheProsumer.mp3","path":"/news/11665181/the-internet-really-did-lead-to-an-explosion-of-creative-content-good-bad-and-ugly","audioDuration":276000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the second story in a three-part series reassessing predictions made about the internet in 1993 on KQED's air. For the first story, head \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665625/virtual-worlds-reassessing-our-tech-predictions-25-years-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. For the third story, head \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665681/innovation-in-east-oakland-the-realities-of-keeping-up-outside-of-silicon-valleys-bubble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's go to 1993 -- years before Facebook, Instagram or YouTube became a thing. KQED sent out its Silicon Valley reporter Peter Jon Shuler to look into the early promise of the internet, to explore a new idea -- that this new complex network would enable and encourage us to make our own creative stuff: photos, movies, music and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea that, armed with the latest digital gadgets, individuals and communities will shake off the mindless passivity of couch potato consumerism and actually talk back,\" former KQED host Harry Lin intoned, leading into Shuler's piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, what was a projection is now a reality. In a matter of minutes, I can upload a video of my cat Bear onto YouTube. Apple's photo program makes it easy to build a slideshow after its filters and trimming tools helps me touch up the not-so-good snaps. Adobe's Audition allows me to merge a recording of Bear purring with a rendition of \"Sunday Kind of Love\" -- a rendition my sister Shira Myrow recorded and sent to me from her home studio. To top it all off, #tags help a larger public find my upload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/w1tZ84j5Kos'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/w1tZ84j5Kos'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technology has in many ways democratized the means of creative production. And some say it may also soon surpass humans in producing creative content through artificial intelligence, but that's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13819186/are-computers-becoming-better-at-composing-music-than-humans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another story\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OK, so back again to 1993, when Shuler talked about a word coined by the futurist \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/books/alvin-toffler-author-of-future-shock-dies-at-87.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alvin Toffler\u003c/a>: prosumer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had a slightly different meaning in mind when he fused the word producer and consumer, but \"prosuming\" seems an apt label for the kind of free-flowing give-and-take now practiced by users of the net,\" Shuler explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Free-flowing give-and-take was the intent behind the Internet Underground Music Archive. Now defunct, it was an \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">archived\u003c/a> website dedicated to helping music lovers find the kind of obscure music that labels weren't signing or promoting. IUMA was started by two computer science majors at UC Santa Cruz, Jeff Patterson and Robert Lord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11665509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-800x532.jpeg\" alt=\"What A Halo Called Fred looked like in 1994. From left to right: Jim Bob Rubbernecker, Brushwood Thicket Farmer and Geverend Dee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-1200x799.jpeg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-1180x785.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-960x639.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994-520x346.jpeg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AHCF_1994.jpeg 1695w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What A Halo Called Fred looked like in 1994. From left to right: Jim Bob Rubbernecker, Brushwood Thicket Farmer and Geverend Dee. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Ken Collins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lord told Shuler, \"The music Jeff and I both appreciate the most tends to be hard to find, mostly imports or on labels that aren't widely distributed types of music.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, Shuler kicked off his story with music from an obscure band called \u003ca href=\"http://ahalocalledfred.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Halo Called Fred\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This music, as they say, is not available in stores,\" Shuler said in his piece. \"And this may be the only time you'll hear it on the radio. But thanks to the Internet Underground Music Archive you can hear it online 24 hours a day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it happens, A Halo Called Fred is still making music, and it's still uploading it to the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/L44pX9GsCVs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/L44pX9GsCVs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, I don't know if I would call these guys prosumers. After all, musicians have been working day jobs since the beginning of time. Some hustle until they make it big. Others never make it big and simply hustle till they drop. There have always been more people who want to be superstars than can be, for a wide variety of reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What can be said is that the internet did make it possible for musicians of all kinds to post music where it can be heard 24 hours a day. Thanks to the Internet Underground Music Archive and other start-ups like it, music distribution become substantially cheaper, too, and the universe of music did expand as more people uploaded more creative work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just because you put a song out there in the world, doesn't mean anyone is going to listen to it without a heck of a lot of promotion of the right kind. And big media companies are fighting as hard as ever to stay in the mix -- to keep your ears and eyeballs glued to their content. Ariana Grande is not tops on the iTunes charts just because she’s talented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ffxKSjUwKdU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ffxKSjUwKdU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republic Records, backed by Universal Music Group, puts a lot of creative and marketing muscle behind her, and that propels her onto our laptops and phones in a way that's typically more compelling to more people than anything you or I could create as \"prosumers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can also be said that the expanded universe of amateur \"content creators\" has helped to change tastes in such a way that many of us prefer, or at least enjoy, communication that looks as if it hasn't been heavily produced. Even if it's not really amateur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new breed of \"social media influencers\" has risen to the top of the popularity charts, including people like Jake Joseph Paul, who rose to significant fame on the now-defunct video application Vine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/0gn4RAuahHw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/0gn4RAuahHw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 14 million subscribers to his YouTube channel, Paul's not a civilian entertainer. But he's not what people in 1993 pictured when they pictured an actor, or a filmmaker. He's famous for being Paul, and repeatedly saying the word \"peace\" in a slightly obnoxious way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one person Shuler talked to back in ’93 predicted this would happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of 50 channels with nothing on, we're going to have 500 channels with nothing on,\" said Jerry Berman, then executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665518\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11665518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-160x237.jpeg\" alt=\"KQED's Peter Jon Shuler, circa 1993, quite possibly working on this very story.\" width=\"160\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-160x237.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-800x1183.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-1020x1508.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-812x1200.jpeg 812w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-1180x1745.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-960x1420.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-240x355.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-375x555.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview-520x769.jpeg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KQED-HQ_preview.jpeg 1385w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED's Peter Jon Shuler, circa 1993, quite possibly working on this very story. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Peter Jon Shuler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Many of these companies have a much narrower vision of the information highway, and they think of really building a lot of capacity to deliver information downstream. In other words, from a station or a cable company to the consumer, but not a lot of bandwidth or the capability of the consumer to reach back or to reach out to other consumers,\" Berman said 25 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And 25 years later, Shuler thinks Berman nailed it on the head. \"I don't think he was guessing. I think he knew what was coming. A very big signal focused at you, at the consumer, and tiny little signal reaching out pushing the other way,\" Shuler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I dunno. Nobody forces you to watch crapola. But if you don’t pay attention, your attention will be directed and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11626859/how-russian-trolls-used-silicon-valleys-influence-to-create-divisions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manipulated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11665511 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Still at it today, KQED's Peter Jon Shuler interviews Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-1180x787.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview-520x347.jpeg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Shuler-Cortese_preview.jpeg 1368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still at it today, KQED's Peter Jon Shuler interviews Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Peter Jon Shuler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I dug up Internet Underground Music Archive co-founder Jeff Patterson, and he told me he’s a little horrified about what’s happened to music since he and another UC Santa Cruz student started IUMA back in the day. Patterson calls what we have now a kind of “idiocracy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What’s surfacing to the top isn’t necessarily what’s good. You know, you have all this access to all the information you want to discover. You find yourself in front of YouTube watching cat videos, and the promise of the internet -- it’s been fulfilled, but it’s also frightening,\" Patterson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that there’s necessarily anything wrong with cat videos.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11665181/the-internet-really-did-lead-to-an-explosion-of-creative-content-good-bad-and-ugly","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_23073"],"categories":["news_223","news_1758","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_4781","news_3137","news_23103","news_2011","news_353","news_23374","news_23379"],"featImg":"news_11665508","label":"news_72"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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