Cities collect personal data. Long Beach is being open about it

Rain was falling steadily as the group huddled underneath umbrellas outside the Mark Twain Neighborhood Library…

Get paid or sue? How the news business is combating the threat of AI

Journalist Javier Cabral wanted to test Google’s much-hyped, experimental artificial intelligence-powered search results. So he typed…

FTC probe: Do companies use consumer surveillance to hike prices?

It’s no secret that Californians pay more than the rest of the country for many goods…

Disney allegedly hacked by NullBulge over ‘approach to AI’

A group of hackers says it recently leaked internal communications at Walt Disney Co. over the…

Poll: Many voters get their information from social media, even if they don’t trust it

In California, where a ballot often contains pages of candidates and initiatives, most voters rely on…

L.A. County Department of Public Health hit by phishing attack

The personal information of more than 200,000 people in Los Angeles County was potentially exposed after…