Starting next year, phone companies such as Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile expect to be the first in the nation to activate a new national authentication system that could eventually reduce the number of unwanted robocalls. The system is estimated to cost $100 million and it is designed to stop fraudulent and unsolicited calls that have […]

Apparently, a new data leak could affect hundreds of millions of Americans and it could be worse than the Equifax data leak that affected almost 150 million people. A security researcher claims that Exactis, a Florida-based marketing and data collecting firm, leaked detailed information on individual adults and businesses. It is estimated that the leak […]

According to a report by The Intercept, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) used backend Facebook data to track down undocumented immigrants targeted for deportation. The Intercept obtained documents and emails through a public records request that provided a rare look into one of the tactics ICE used to monitor suspects. The report shows that […]

California’s relatively new system for pre-registering teens to vote seems to be doing very well. In the first months of the system’s existence, there were 88,700 teenagers that pre-registered. The online system lets 16 and 17 year olds pre-register to vote and they will automatically be registered to vote on their 18th birthday as long […]

According to an analysis of two national surveys by the Pew Research Center, about 11 percent, roughly 5 million people, of the estimated 43 million adults in the U.S. with Hispanic ancestry didn’t identify themselves as either Latino or Hispanic. The analysis was released in December 2017 and it states that the closer people are […]

According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data, more than twice as many H-1B applications were rejected in November compared to the same time period in 2016. Foreigners who were once considered solid candidates for an H-1B visa have been receiving extra scrutiny and delays on their applications under the Trump Administration. An H-1B visa […]

Los Angeles County interim health officer, Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser is acting reckless and seems clueless with the Air Quality Management District’s air monitoring evaluations of hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) in Los Angeles County by blaming a single industry for the problem. Dr. Gunzenhauser recently noted, “Based on recent evaluations of hexavalent chromium [also known as chromium […]

By: Hector M. Barajas Might you want to vilify a company, ban their product from the marketplace or force them to re-label a chemical as cancer causing so you can sue the hell out of them? WHO did, so now you can too. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Agency of Research on Cancer (IARC) […]

In June, Stanford University researchers found evidence that black and Latino drivers face a double standard and that police require far less suspicion to search them than their white counterparts. Their findings are based on an analysis of more than 60 million police stops in 20 states from 2011 to 2015. The database, which is […]

According to 2016 vehicle registration data collected by auto industry watcher IHS Markit, where you live in California can influence what car you buy. For example, a Bakersfield resident in the market for a new car last year more than likely purchased a light-duty pickup truck, where as someone living in the San Francisco Bay […]