Developers are descending on a rural desert community along California’s Mexican border, trying to build over $15 billion worth of data centers to power Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence boom.

The police department in the Northern California city of Mountain View is suspending the use of automated license plate reader cameras after the discovery of unauthorized access to data by federal and ...

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California is losing its status as a data center hotbed. But developers are still finding opportunity in the state, while local governments are getting creative to help data center firms overcome ...

There is big money tied to personal information, much of it bought and sold by data brokers. Now, a new California law is giving residents more control over where their data ends up. Gov. Gavin Newsom ...

Apple has beaten a class action's claims alleging that it records users' mobile activity without their consent despite the company's privacy assurances, reports Bloomberg Law. Filed in November 2022, ...

Tens of thousands of Californians have already signed up for the state's new tool to try and stop their data from being sold by brokers, officials say. Gov. Gavin Newsom is touting the rollout of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Governor Gavin Newsom makes remarks during a press conference about homelessness funding in San Francisco on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026 ...

The Justice Department has sued about two dozen states over access to voter rolls, as the federal government pushes to create a national database. By Neil Vigdor and Rylee Kirk California scored a key ...

A federal judge Thursday dealt a significant legal setback to the Trump administration in its efforts to obtain voter data held by states. In a 33-page order, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter in ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The California Privacy Protection Agency kicked off 2026 by launching a tool that ...