Uber, Lyft Win California Proposition
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| Uber, Lyft Win California Proposition | |
| Number | 1275 |
| Broadcast Date | NOVEMBER 4, 2020 |
| Episode Length | 3:57 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
App-based drivers will not be considered full-time employees under California law, Massachusetts extends right to repair laws to car data and Chrome patches two zero-day vulnerabilities.
Headlines
- Spotify's Apple Watch app now can stream without connecting to an iPhone. The feature is in beta and rolling out to some users. The Watch will need its own WiFi or cellular connection, offline listening is not yet enabled.
- Voters in California have passed Proposition 22 which exempts app-based drivers, both ride hailing and food delivery, from a state law that would have required them to be full time employees. The new law will leave drivers as independent contractors but guarantee them a minimum wage, limit driving hours to 12 out of every 24, and provide health insurance and accident insurance subsidies for some drivers.
- Massachusetts voters passed Question 1 which will prevent car manufacturers from locking up advanced telematics data collected by driver assistance tools. iFixit founder Kyle Wiens called it “... the most advanced Right To Repair law in the world, opening wireless automotive diagnostics and unleashing a world of possible apps.”
- California voters approved Proposition 24 which will replace California's Consumer Privacy Act which was passed in 2018. The proposition essentially keeps the protections of the original act but requires a supermajority of the legislature, or another proposition, to change them. It adds the ability for California citizens to require companies to limit the use of sensitive personal information and creates a government agency to handle privacy law enforcement. California businesses have until January 2023 to comply with the new provisions.
- Voters in Portland, Maine made an ordinance against the use of facial recognition by the city fixed for five years. The measure lets citizens sue to receive $100 per violation or a total of $1,000. It requires the city to suppress any illegally obtained evidence and be grounds for a city official's termination.
- Google patched two zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome. One was a remote-code execution bug in Chrome's V8 javascript engine. The second was a heap-based buffer overflow in Chrome for Android that would let attackers escape the sandbox.
- The Wall Street Journal's sources say Comcast and Walmart are in talks to develop a smart TV. Comcast would provide the smart TV software which would run on TVs made by a third party and promoted and sold by Walmart and possibly carry Walmart branding. Comcast's software would work nationwide and not be tied to its cable service though it might encourage growth of Comcast's Peacock and Xumo products. Walmart has an existing partnership to sell TVs running Roku under the Onn brand.
- Turkey's government has fined Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Periscope and TikTok, each the equivalent of $1.2 million US for missing a November 2 deadline to appoint a Turkish representative. According to a law adopted this summer, social media companies must have a permanent representative in Turkey, store Turkish user data in the country, and execute court-ordered takedowns.
- Some people who have ordered the Oculus Quest 2 Elite Strap with Battery and Carrying Case say they have received emails saying their orders have been delayed. The email says Oculus is "investigating some customer quality reports" and has paused shipping while it looks into the problem. Some people on Reddit have reported the strap breaking.
- Intel has acquired Israel's Cnvrg.io which operates a platform for tracking and training machine learning models. Intel says Cnvrg will continue as an independent company within Intel serving its existing and future customers. Intel recently acquired SigOPt which runs an optimization platform for machine learning models. Intel also owns computer vision company Mobileye and AI chipmaker Habana.
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Uber, Lyft Win California Proposition |
Followed by: "WhatsApp Rolls Out Ephemeral Messaging" |