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Daily Report: Public Safety

Homeland Security office OKs efforts to monitor threats via social media

November 15, 2012, 12:05 AM
A little-known privacy office in the Department of Homeland Security has given its stamp of approval to an ongoing initiative aimed at monitoring social media sites for emerging threats. Congress created the department’s privacy office in 2003 to review major initiatives and databases... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Private tech companies pitch Web surveillance tools to police

September 4, 2012, 12:05 AM
Private tech firms have found a new market for their sophisticated software capable of analyzing vast segments of the Internet – local police departments looking for ways to pre-empt the next mass shooting or other headline-grabbing event. Twitter, Facebook and other popular sites are 24... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Facebook seeks exemption from ad disclosures

May 12, 2011, 12:05 AM
Palo Alto-based social networking giant Facebook is seeking an exemption to rules that would require political advertisements on the site to disclose the source of their funds, according to a letter submitted to federal regulators by company attorneys. The letter, first obtained by Talking... + read more
Spotlight: Money and Politics

GRAPHIC: When did Brown and Whitman launch all these websites?

August 20, 2010, 12:05 AM
Gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman have unrolled a string of campaign websites targeted at specific audiences since spring 2010. This timeline should help sort out when candidates first launched their specialized websites. + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

With FPPC Internet rules on horizon, Brown and Whitman experiment online

August 20, 2010, 12:05 AM
Who are Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown? Depends who you ask. Jerryfails.com would have you believe Brown’s life amounts to nothing but “a career politician with a legacy of broken promises and failure.” Meg-a-Myths.com barely stops short of calling Whitman a pathological liar,... + read more
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Social media ramps up California Watch distribution

August 5, 2010, 12:20 AM
The California Watch newsroom was buzzing Tuesday – even more than usual. News broke that Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., had released an oversight report highlighting questionable stimulus projects – a $175 million award to BP chief among them. That BP had... + read more
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