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The Los Angeles Department of Transportation’s Ride Tracking Pilot is Out of Control The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) is about to make a bad privacy situation worse, and it’s urgent that Los Angeles residents contact their city council representatives today to demand they put the brakes on LADOT’s irresponsible data collection. The agency plans to scoop up trip data on every single e-bike and scooter ride taken within the city and, left unchecked, it will do so in the absence of responsible and transparent policies to mitigate the privacy risks to Los Angeles riders. Take Action Tell The City Council To Put The Brakes on LADOT’s Rider Surveillance Program  Location data is among the most sensitive forms of information related to a person’s privacy. Collected over time, people’s movements from place to place reveal a good deal about them: where they work, where they play, where they worship, their political leanings, and even personal and familial relati...

Platform Liability Doesn’t – And Shouldn’t – Depend on Content Moderation Practices In April 2018, House Republicans held a hearing on the “ Filtering Practices of Social Media Platforms ” that focused on misguided claims that Internet platforms like Google, Twitter, and Facebook actively discriminate against conservative political viewpoints. Now, a year later, Senator Ted Cruz is poised to take the Senate down the same path: he’s leading a hearing this week on “ Stifling Free Speech: Technological Censorship and the Public Discourse .” While we certainly agree that online platforms have created content moderation systems that remove speech, we don’t see evidence of systemic political bias against conservatives. In fact, the voices that are silenced more often belong to already marginalized or less-powerful people .   Given the lack of evidence of intentional partisan bias, it seems likely that this hearing is intended to serve a different purpose: to build a case f...

How to make your largest industrial investment work harder for you Why does Asset Performance matter? If you’re wondering where to start with your digitalization journey, Asset Performance is a key area to address. Why? Because there is so much capital invested in production assets – typically, 70% of new plant capital. Naturally, you want to see maximum return on that investment – or maximum Return On Capital Employed (ROCE) . Your shareholders do too. By the same token, if something happens to these assets it can be a big blow for your financial performance – for example, unplanned down time costs companies up to 5% in production loss each year (ARC Survey of 300 Customers in Discrete, Hybrid and Process Industries). Clearly a lot depends on the performance of these assets. Let’s take a closer look at how you can use digital technology to improve ROCE. Improving Asset Performance So how do you make all that money invested in assets work harder for you, every day? What’s excit...