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(For a fee, Spokeo hands over bundles of personal information profiling just about anyone whose personal data can be gathered via publicly available sources.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokeo reported that Robins was in his 50s, had obtained a master’s degree and earned an annual six-figure income. In reality, when he discovered the false online profile several years ago, he was in his mid-20s and unemployed. The case was filed in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robins argued that the false profile harmed his job prospects. His lawyers claimed Spokeo had violated his rights under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokeo, a Pasadena-based company, sought to dismiss the case. It argued Robins couldn’t prove that he’d actually experienced any tangible harm as a result of the inaccuracies. But a federal court rejected that argument. 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A decision is expected by June 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big tech firms supporting Spokeo argued that a ruling in Robins’ favor could incentivize class-action lawsuits targeting deep-pocketed tech companies, even in cases where no one was harmed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“If any of the millions of individuals who interact with [Google, Facebook and Yahoo!] is willing (or is enticed by a plaintiff’s attorney) to allege that a generalized practice or act violated a law providing a private cause of action and statutory damages, then she could launch a putative class action on behalf of herself and millions of other ‘similarly situated’ users. She could pursue a multi-billion dollar statutory damages claim despite the lack of injury to herself or any other class member.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Robins is represented by Chicago-based Edelson PC, a prominent law firm that \u003ca href=\"http://www.therecorder.com/id=1202741426439/Privacy-ClassAction-Firm-Opens-SF-Office\" target=\"_blank\">recently opened an office in San Francisco’s\u003c/a> startup-saturated SoMa district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firm specializes in privacy law, and has targeted tech giants, including Google and Facebook, with class-action suits in the past. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/technology/unpopular-in-silicon-valley.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times profile\u003c/a> dubbed Jay Edelson Silicon Valley’s “least friended man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Dore, a partner with the firm, said Robins’ case was filed after the firm received a high volume of complaints alleging inaccurate profile data displayed on Spokeo.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any type of false information can cause distinct harm,” Dore said. For example, he said, imagine a scenario where you’ve met someone via an online dating website and “you find out the person you’re going on a date with appears to be married.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Edelson PC’s cases have served to highlight a range of hot-button privacy issues in the face of the rapidly evolving tech landscape, the majority are settled out of court — Edelson claims to have won $1 billion in settlements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rather than settle the Robins suit, Spokeo has opted to push back, raising the stakes for both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is one of those many issues that seem to be boring or narrow, and end up being really huge,” explained G.S. 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An \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Center-for-Democracy-Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">amicus brief\u003c/a> on behalf of the Center for Democracy and Technology highlights the growing data collection industry it represents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“A growing data brokerage industry has access not only to public record information, but countless other data points about consumers that are used for marketing, risk mitigation, background investigation, and more. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robins argued that the false profile harmed his job prospects. His lawyers claimed Spokeo had violated his rights under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokeo, a Pasadena-based company, sought to dismiss the case. It argued Robins couldn’t prove that he’d actually experienced any tangible harm as a result of the inaccuracies. But a federal court rejected that argument. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed the lower court decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now four Silicon Valley firms — \u003ca href=\"http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/13-1339-Spokeo-Inc.-v.-Robins-Br.-for-Amici-eBay-Inc.-et-al.-Jun....pdf\" target=\"_blank\">eBay, Google, Yahoo and Facebook\u003c/a> — have jointly filed a brief in support of Spokeo.com, while some consumer advocacy organizations are rallying behind Robins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 2, \u003ca href=\"http://fortune.com/2015/11/02/supreme-court-spokeo/\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case\u003c/a>. 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She could pursue a multi-billion dollar statutory damages claim despite the lack of injury to herself or any other class member.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Robins is represented by Chicago-based Edelson PC, a prominent law firm that \u003ca href=\"http://www.therecorder.com/id=1202741426439/Privacy-ClassAction-Firm-Opens-SF-Office\" target=\"_blank\">recently opened an office in San Francisco’s\u003c/a> startup-saturated SoMa district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firm specializes in privacy law, and has targeted tech giants, including Google and Facebook, with class-action suits in the past. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/technology/unpopular-in-silicon-valley.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times profile\u003c/a> dubbed Jay Edelson Silicon Valley’s “least friended man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Dore, a partner with the firm, said Robins’ case was filed after the firm received a high volume of complaints alleging inaccurate profile data displayed on Spokeo.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any type of false information can cause distinct harm,” Dore said. 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"content": "\u003cp>From Hollywood to Silicon Valley, California leads the world with big ideas. On Monday we launched a new series focusing on a few of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our first episode comes from \u003ca href=\"https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/russell.html\">Stuart Russell\u003c/a>. He's a computer science professor at UC Berkeley and a world-renowned expert in artificial intelligence. His idea?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the future, moral philosophy will be a key industry sector,” says Russell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Translation? In the future, the nature of human values and the process by which we make moral decisions will be \u003ci>big\u003c/i> business in tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell's idea is at the center of a debate going on right now in computer science. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, imagine, if you want to build a robot to go in people’s homes,” Russell says. “This is something that could happen in the next decade,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230150122\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that at first robots will do chores around the house, such as cooking, cleaning and laundry. But eventually they will take on more human tasks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now in Japan there’s a robot named \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCFYw8mIqcc\">Pepper \u003c/a>that’s designed to serve as a human companion. It's being tested with senior citizens. The idea is that instead of getting your granny a cat to keep her company, you’d get her Pepper. Russell imagines that one day robots will take care of our kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Presumably the robot companies will get their values loaded into the robot from a values company.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If you want to build a robot to go into people’s homes, you don’t want to come home and find it’s put the cat in the oven for dinner, thinking that was a good thing to do because the kids were hungry and there was nothing in the fridge, right?” asks Russell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how would the robot know that’s not what you wanted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would want that robot preloaded with a pretty good set of values,\" Russell says. \"So presumably the robot companies will get their values loaded into the robot from a values company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10734627\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PepperWithKids-800x670.jpg\" alt=\"The humanoid robot Pepper chats with children at a high-tech gadgets exhibition in Tokyo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"670\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10734627\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PepperWithKids-800x670.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PepperWithKids-400x335.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PepperWithKids-1440x1207.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PepperWithKids.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PepperWithKids-1180x989.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PepperWithKids-960x805.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The humanoid robot Pepper chats with children at a high-tech gadgets exhibition in Tokyo. \u003ccite>(YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sounds a little creepy, no? Russell says fear of the brave new world of robots is as old as the word itself. In fact, the word \"robot\" was coined in a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.\">play \u003c/a>in which robots take over the world. From \"Frankenstein\" to \"The Terminator,\" that theme has run through the arts and popular culture ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Russell says for the most part, scientists didn’t take such concerns seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The normal response to those kinds of things is to say, 'Oh well, you know it’s a long way off in the future, so we don’t have to worry about this,' ” says Russell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recently that attitude has changed. In the past few years, scientists have been more vocal about the dangers artificial intelligence could pose to humanity. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking told the BBC that he thinks the “development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And earlier this year Hawking and hundreds of AI researchers signed an\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://futureoflife.org/AI/open_letter\"> open letter\u003c/a>, saying that if the industry doesn’t start building safeguards into artificial intelligence it could spell doom for humanity. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who also signed the letter, gave \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musks-10-million-donation-will-help-keep-us-safe-from-artificial-intelligence-2015-7\">$10 million\u003c/a> to the cause. He went so far as to say that artificial intelligence \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">could be\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> humanity’s biggest “\u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/27/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-ai-biggest-existential-threat\">existential threat\u003c/a>.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10734694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Hawking-800x579.jpg\" alt='Physicist Stephen Hawking has said the \"development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"579\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10734694\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Hawking-800x579.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Hawking-400x289.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Hawking-1440x1042.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Hawking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Hawking-1180x854.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Hawking-960x695.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Physicist Stephen Hawking has said the \"development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.\" \u003ccite>(Frederick M. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, imagine, if you want to build a robot to go in people’s homes,” Russell says. “This is something that could happen in the next decade,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230150122&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230150122'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that at first robots will do chores around the house, such as cooking, cleaning and laundry. 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Russell imagines that one day robots will take care of our kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Presumably the robot companies will get their values loaded into the robot from a values company.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If you want to build a robot to go into people’s homes, you don’t want to come home and find it’s put the cat in the oven for dinner, thinking that was a good thing to do because the kids were hungry and there was nothing in the fridge, right?” asks Russell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how would the robot know that’s not what you wanted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would want that robot preloaded with a pretty good set of values,\" Russell says. \"So presumably the robot companies will get their values loaded into the robot from a values company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10734627\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PepperWithKids-800x670.jpg\" alt=\"The humanoid robot Pepper chats with children at a high-tech gadgets exhibition in Tokyo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"670\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10734627\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PepperWithKids-800x670.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PepperWithKids-400x335.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PepperWithKids-1440x1207.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PepperWithKids.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PepperWithKids-1180x989.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PepperWithKids-960x805.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The humanoid robot Pepper chats with children at a high-tech gadgets exhibition in Tokyo. \u003ccite>(YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sounds a little creepy, no? Russell says fear of the brave new world of robots is as old as the word itself. In fact, the word \"robot\" was coined in a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.\">play \u003c/a>in which robots take over the world. From \"Frankenstein\" to \"The Terminator,\" that theme has run through the arts and popular culture ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Russell says for the most part, scientists didn’t take such concerns seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The normal response to those kinds of things is to say, 'Oh well, you know it’s a long way off in the future, so we don’t have to worry about this,' ” says Russell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recently that attitude has changed. In the past few years, scientists have been more vocal about the dangers artificial intelligence could pose to humanity. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking told the BBC that he thinks the “development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And earlier this year Hawking and hundreds of AI researchers signed an\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://futureoflife.org/AI/open_letter\"> open letter\u003c/a>, saying that if the industry doesn’t start building safeguards into artificial intelligence it could spell doom for humanity. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who also signed the letter, gave \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musks-10-million-donation-will-help-keep-us-safe-from-artificial-intelligence-2015-7\">$10 million\u003c/a> to the cause. 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They've both begun to roll out their own faster services in California, where the list of cities keen to get Google Fiber is growing. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tens of thousands of tech workers have flooded into San Francisco in recent years, changing the face of the city. How will they affect the upcoming election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”euoK6Sh12GY9mcweKJitUKuGbBZcxtCT”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s begin by agreeing that there is no techie block vote. We’re not talking about \u003ca href=\"http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Borg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Borg\u003c/a> here. But more to the point, the data don’t back up the assumption that all tech workers vote the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a variable that says ‘techie’ that we can check off,” says David Latterman, who runs the quantitative research firm \u003ca href=\"http://www.flanalytics.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fall Line Analytics\u003c/a>. He has crunched political data locally for more than a decade, and he thinks the most salient factor is not so much what people do for a living but how old they are and how recently they arrived in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know 50-year-old techies on the far left, and [others] who are staunchly conservative, and everything in between,” Latterman says. “The older they get, the more they diffuse into the city and the body politic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ned Lerner, director of engineering at Sony Computer Entertainment America, typifies that older techie voter. “I only started voting local when I thought of myself as part of the local community, which took a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 56-year-old resident of the Richmond district moved to San Francisco in 1995. Lerner says his attitude about voting changed after he became a homeowner and a parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m much more likely to think about what is better — or worse — for my kids,” Lerner says. “I’m also increasingly aware of how complex the world is, which the issues on the ballot reflect, how the process is manipulated by those who have a personal stake, and how inadequate my knowledge is — and very likely, the knowledge of those who I might defer to, including the media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latterman adds: “A lot of younger people, they’re not focused yet. People like to talk: ‘You know, we have this tech group mobilized.’ No, they don’t. There’s no evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, he says, because young tech workers are not likely to vote, they’re not being targeted by political candidates and campaigns, either with mailers or social media. At least, not in this year’s election, given that there’s no hotly contested race at the top of the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Airbnb, which has reportedly spent\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-spends-8-million-against-prop-f-2015-9\"> $8 million\u003c/a> to defeat \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201510050900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition F\u003c/a>, might be the only compelling ballot draw, David Latterman says, mainly because the company has spent so much money to raise public awareness.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Latterman’s assessment is widely shared by other analysts who watch San Francisco politics closely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the jury is still out as to how politically engaged the majority of new young tech workers are,” says Rachel Brahinsky, assistant professor of urban affairs at the University of San Francisco. “You may have some people who are new to the city and haven’t figured out how to plug in yet. They may be just out of college and aren’t that politicized necessarily. Some of them are. Some of them aren’t. And then if they’re getting some of these tech jobs, they are very, very busy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the stereotype: the young recent arrival to San Francisco who lives in a bubble, shuttling between home and work, the bar and coffee bar, with nary a thought to civic engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But enough from the political pundits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s Talk To More Techies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I headed for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sightglasscoffee.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sightglass Coffee\u003c/a>, South of Market. It’s hip, spacious and packed with people who work in tech. Over the hum and swoosh of beans being roasted on-site, people hold business meetings or tap away diligently on their laptops. I expected to meet disengaged workaholics. Instead, I ran into 26-year-old Bill Rowan, a software engineer who’s been living in Cole Valley for three years. Does he vote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year,” he replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Has he voted yet this year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not yet,” Rowan replies. “I know I still have a little more time to make my selections, but I’ve already started studying the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rowan is so serious about doing his civic duty that he’s a member of the nonprofit San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (or \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPUR\u003c/a>) and attended a recent meeting to learn more about this year’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do meet a couple of guys who don’t vote, like Amit Desai, who’s lived in SoMa for seven years. He works in marketing for a software company. Desai is 44. So, according to prevailing wisdom, he should be politically active. But no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m largely apolitical.” He chalks it up to cynicism, even though Desai says he’s troubled by the way the housing crisis has affected the cultural diversity of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is a great city, pretty city,” Desai says. “But it’s definitely becoming less diverse. At this rate, we’re going to have something akin to Manhattan, for techies, as opposed to bankers. More homogenous, wealthy group of residents, plus commuters and tourists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think to myself the KQED mic flag might be scaring away “brogrammers,” the stereotypical frat boy programmer everybody loves to hate. Or perhaps I’m attracting a self-selecting data pool of voters. I meet one middle-aged tech worker who refuses to talk on tape. He says he listens to KQED and he knows he’ll come off badly admitting he doesn’t vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the more time I spend at Sightglass, the more I meet young people working in tech who are really, really politically engaged. None more so than 24-year-old Will Hayworth, a software developer for \u003ca href=\"https://www.atlassian.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlassian\u003c/a>. Hayworth voted the same night the ballot arrived in the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t fall asleep because I was so excited to vote!” Hayworth laughs. Despite moving to San Francisco just a year and a half ago, Hayworth can go down the list of housing measures from memory, thoughtfully explaining each vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are already seeing how high rents are re-shaping the city, and not in good ways,” they say. (Hayworth identifies as genderqueer, so I’ll be using the pronoun “they” from here on out.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask if Hayworth’s passion for politics is considered normal by friends and co-workers. Sipping on a vanilla iced cold brew, they say no. “When you try and discuss it and everything, you just sort of get blank stares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayworth’s interest makes a lot more sense when you learn politics is a family concern. Their mother \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r1DuHYhDtU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nan Hayworth\u003c/a> was a Republican congresswoman in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel loathed as a gay guy, sometimes. I feel loathed as a Republican among the gays. And I feel loathed as a techie by everybody who’s not in tech,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With fingernails painted bright blue, Hayworth taps on an iPhone to pull up a photo of a poster you can still find slapped on telephone poles around SoMa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10725875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10725875\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut-800x642.jpg\" alt='\"Brogrammers off the block,\" this poster up in SoMa reads. \"Attention all lemmings/employees of Airbnb, Apple, DoubleDutch, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, SV Angels, Ron Conway, Scott Weiner, TechCrunch, Twitter, Uber, Yahoo. You are hereby advised to leave the Mission. Your next warning will not be so polite.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut-400x321.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Brogrammers off the block,” this poster up in SoMa says. “Attention all lemmings/employees of Airbnb, Apple, DoubleDutch, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, SV Angels, Ron Conway, Scott Weiner, TechCrunch, Twitter, Uber, Yahoo. You are hereby advised to leave the Mission. Your next warning will not be so polite.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Will Hayworth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The logic of the poster isn’t exactly clear. Only the Mission is mentioned, although tech workers have reshaped a number of neighborhoods in the city. The list of companies seems to favor those that get a lot of media coverage, as opposed to, say, a list of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/subscriber-only/2015/03/06/san-francisco-tech-employers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top tech employers\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Whatever the case, Hayworth resents the malice communicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody, but nobody would confuse me for a brogrammer. I hope,” Hayworth says. “The fact they would just tar such a big group of people without knowing any of them. You know, obnoxious people in a bar do not represent, like, the entire tech community. And it’s really unfortunate that political discourse in San Francisco kind of throws all these people together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how do I relate my findings here at Sightglass to what political analysts who parse voting data say? I went back to David Latterman to get his take. 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People like to talk: ‘You know, we have this tech group mobilized.’ No, they don’t. There’s no evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, he says, because young tech workers are not likely to vote, they’re not being targeted by political candidates and campaigns, either with mailers or social media. At least, not in this year’s election, given that there’s no hotly contested race at the top of the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Airbnb, which has reportedly spent\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-spends-8-million-against-prop-f-2015-9\"> $8 million\u003c/a> to defeat \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201510050900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition F\u003c/a>, might be the only compelling ballot draw, David Latterman says, mainly because the company has spent so much money to raise public awareness.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Latterman’s assessment is widely shared by other analysts who watch San Francisco politics closely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the jury is still out as to how politically engaged the majority of new young tech workers are,” says Rachel Brahinsky, assistant professor of urban affairs at the University of San Francisco. “You may have some people who are new to the city and haven’t figured out how to plug in yet. They may be just out of college and aren’t that politicized necessarily. Some of them are. Some of them aren’t. And then if they’re getting some of these tech jobs, they are very, very busy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the stereotype: the young recent arrival to San Francisco who lives in a bubble, shuttling between home and work, the bar and coffee bar, with nary a thought to civic engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But enough from the political pundits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s Talk To More Techies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I headed for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sightglasscoffee.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sightglass Coffee\u003c/a>, South of Market. It’s hip, spacious and packed with people who work in tech. Over the hum and swoosh of beans being roasted on-site, people hold business meetings or tap away diligently on their laptops. I expected to meet disengaged workaholics. Instead, I ran into 26-year-old Bill Rowan, a software engineer who’s been living in Cole Valley for three years. Does he vote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year,” he replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Has he voted yet this year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not yet,” Rowan replies. “I know I still have a little more time to make my selections, but I’ve already started studying the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rowan is so serious about doing his civic duty that he’s a member of the nonprofit San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (or \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPUR\u003c/a>) and attended a recent meeting to learn more about this year’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do meet a couple of guys who don’t vote, like Amit Desai, who’s lived in SoMa for seven years. He works in marketing for a software company. Desai is 44. So, according to prevailing wisdom, he should be politically active. But no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m largely apolitical.” He chalks it up to cynicism, even though Desai says he’s troubled by the way the housing crisis has affected the cultural diversity of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is a great city, pretty city,” Desai says. “But it’s definitely becoming less diverse. At this rate, we’re going to have something akin to Manhattan, for techies, as opposed to bankers. More homogenous, wealthy group of residents, plus commuters and tourists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think to myself the KQED mic flag might be scaring away “brogrammers,” the stereotypical frat boy programmer everybody loves to hate. Or perhaps I’m attracting a self-selecting data pool of voters. I meet one middle-aged tech worker who refuses to talk on tape. He says he listens to KQED and he knows he’ll come off badly admitting he doesn’t vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the more time I spend at Sightglass, the more I meet young people working in tech who are really, really politically engaged. None more so than 24-year-old Will Hayworth, a software developer for \u003ca href=\"https://www.atlassian.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlassian\u003c/a>. Hayworth voted the same night the ballot arrived in the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t fall asleep because I was so excited to vote!” Hayworth laughs. Despite moving to San Francisco just a year and a half ago, Hayworth can go down the list of housing measures from memory, thoughtfully explaining each vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are already seeing how high rents are re-shaping the city, and not in good ways,” they say. (Hayworth identifies as genderqueer, so I’ll be using the pronoun “they” from here on out.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask if Hayworth’s passion for politics is considered normal by friends and co-workers. Sipping on a vanilla iced cold brew, they say no. “When you try and discuss it and everything, you just sort of get blank stares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayworth’s interest makes a lot more sense when you learn politics is a family concern. Their mother \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r1DuHYhDtU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nan Hayworth\u003c/a> was a Republican congresswoman in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel loathed as a gay guy, sometimes. I feel loathed as a Republican among the gays. And I feel loathed as a techie by everybody who’s not in tech,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With fingernails painted bright blue, Hayworth taps on an iPhone to pull up a photo of a poster you can still find slapped on telephone poles around SoMa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10725875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10725875\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut-800x642.jpg\" alt='\"Brogrammers off the block,\" this poster up in SoMa reads. \"Attention all lemmings/employees of Airbnb, Apple, DoubleDutch, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, SV Angels, Ron Conway, Scott Weiner, TechCrunch, Twitter, Uber, Yahoo. You are hereby advised to leave the Mission. Your next warning will not be so polite.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut-400x321.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Brogrammers off the block,” this poster up in SoMa says. “Attention all lemmings/employees of Airbnb, Apple, DoubleDutch, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, SV Angels, Ron Conway, Scott Weiner, TechCrunch, Twitter, Uber, Yahoo. You are hereby advised to leave the Mission. Your next warning will not be so polite.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Will Hayworth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The logic of the poster isn’t exactly clear. Only the Mission is mentioned, although tech workers have reshaped a number of neighborhoods in the city. The list of companies seems to favor those that get a lot of media coverage, as opposed to, say, a list of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/subscriber-only/2015/03/06/san-francisco-tech-employers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top tech employers\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Whatever the case, Hayworth resents the malice communicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody, but nobody would confuse me for a brogrammer. I hope,” Hayworth says. “The fact they would just tar such a big group of people without knowing any of them. You know, obnoxious people in a bar do not represent, like, the entire tech community. And it’s really unfortunate that political discourse in San Francisco kind of throws all these people together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how do I relate my findings here at Sightglass to what political analysts who parse voting data say? I went back to David Latterman to get his take. He promises voters like Hayworth who are outliers now \u003cem>will\u003c/em> get noticed within a couple election cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Our latest model, which is the Navigation Center, we believe puts together the best services. But also [it's] inviting, gets rid of the shelter rules and makes sure people live in dignity as we place hundreds of units of housing behind that. We should work with the school district, with the Human Services Agency, to make sure that our children who are in school who are homeless … to make sure there is sustained housing for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “This past year we were able to pass a two-year budget that had no budget cuts … because we have a very strong economy. That strong economy is a reflection of good relationships with our business community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee has collected endorsements from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Gov. 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She got her start in San Francisco politics by organizing \u003ca href=\"http://hoodline.com/2011/10/occupy401divis-movement-planning-boycott-of-chase-bank?utm_source=story&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=stories\">opposition to a Chase Bank on Oak and Divisadero streets\u003c/a> -- favored by Lee's Office of Economic and Workforce Development -- which displaced two independently owned businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In her words:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>“The only tool that’s available to us to be able to acquire power is grass-roots democracy. When our leaders are not accountable to us, when they’re not using that power in a way that gives us an exciting vision for the future that’s truly inclusive and equitable, then we need to become those leaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“We need an environmental impact review for the tech buses. We need an environmental impact review for Uber and Lyft, and it’s ridiculous that taxi drivers have had to endure what they endured with the regulations that are put upon them, but aren’t being placed on the [transportation network companies]. The administration is just capitulating to these large corporate interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“I have a background in transitional housing, mental health, reactivating spaces, starting urban gardens. I came up with an idea called transitional eco-villages where we identify all of the under-utilized city property ... and we create these transitional eco-villages. I call it the St. Francisco Super Bowl Homelessness Challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Note: Weiss said her project title \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/08/24/super-bowl-50-homeless-san-francisco-mayor-ed-lee-super-bowl-city/\">is a reference to this statement\u003c/a> made by Mayor Lee.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A:\u003c/strong> “[Venture capitalist] Ron Conway was actually part of the plan to change our tax structure in San Francisco … but we went too far with that, and we should have put more onus on tech companies who are coming into our city to pay their fair share. … As mayor, I’m going to figure out how we get more balance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss received second-place endorsements from the San Francisco Green Party and SEIU Local 1021, the city's largest public employee union, among others. \u003ca href=\"http://www.thinktwicevoteweiss.com\">Visit her website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16987_IMG_8844-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10713999 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16987_IMG_8844-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS16987_IMG_8844-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stuart Schuffman\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Stuart Schuffman, aka “Broke-Ass Stuart” \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schuffman writes a column for the San Francisco Examiner titled \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/category/the-city/sf-news-columns/broke-ass-city/\">\"Broke-Ass City,\"\u003c/a> and is the author of \"Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide to Living Cheaply in San Francisco\" and two other books on living cheaply. He also created and hosted a travel show on IFC called \"Young, Broke and Beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “People say they leave their heart in San Francisco -- I found my heart in San Francisco. I found a community, I found a place where everybody was welcome, no matter where they were from, or what they did, or what they were like. And that’s what we’re losing. Part of it has to do with housing, a lot of that has to do with corruption. We need to take our city back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“I met my first serious girlfriend on Muni. I love Muni. Part of being a San Franciscan is using mass transit ... The city feels congested … and part of that’s because of ride-sharing. … There has to be a way we can regulate who is driving here. Also, I think that if we put a higher charge on the stops of Google buses, then we can put that money into Muni.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“There’s roughly 10,000-ish homeless people on the streets of San Francisco. And there’s roughly 10,000-ish Airbnb rentals out there -- I’m just sayin’. ... These are people who are veterans, they are people who come from broken homes, people who come from abuse, they are people who need our help, and 71 percent of them were in San Francisco residences before they were on the streets. And so, we need housing first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make them pay their taxes! I can’t wait for these tax breaks to expire -- $55 million worth of tax breaks were given to these tech companies. There are three meals per day served at the Twitter building, and there’s one meal per person at St. Anthony’s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schuffman was endorsed by comedian Margaret Cho -- because, according to his blog post, she was impressed with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4SpQnlS0zo\">plan for solving San Francisco's poop problem\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://brokeassmayor.nationbuilder.com/\">Visit Stuart Schuffman's website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17000_IMG_9053-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10714000 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17000_IMG_9053-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS17000_IMG_9053-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco Herrera\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Francisco Herrera\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco Herrera has lived in the city for nearly 30 years. Originally from Mexicali, he studied political science and graduated with a master's degree in theology. He's a musician, activist and co-founder of San Francisco's Day Labor Program. After his closing remarks at the forum, Herrera treated participants to a short \u003cem>a cappella\u003c/em> tune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “Forty thousand jobs -- but for people who don’t live here. Ten thousand people have been kicked out of the Mission. The Bayview-Hunters Point has been completely devastated. People are feeling the angst, a general angst, at what this has created. So, this planning is not for us. We have to come back to plan and develop for our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A:\u003c/strong> “We need to start by limiting where these [tech] buses travel. We need to have them pay into the public common good, so that we can have a better Muni for all workers together. This corporate cheating, corporate welfare called tax breaks, just does not work, and it creates a two-tier among working people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Herrera:\u003c/strong> “Homelessness starts at the moment that people can’t pay the rent. There’s folks who have jobs who are living in their cars. … We all have to support\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201510050900\"> Prop. F\u003c/a> and we have to support the systems that are helping people deal with their own experience of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Herrera:\u003c/strong> “This whole idea of tax breaks is nothing but corporate welfare. … Make the investor pay their fair share.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera won first-place endorsements from SEIU Local 1021 and the San Francisco Green Party, among others. \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplescampaign.net/\">Visit his website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16990_IMG_8878-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714014 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16990_IMG_8878-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Reed Martin\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Reed Martin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed Martin is a tech-sector employee who also serves on the board of San Francisco Transit Riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In his words: \u003c/strong> \"As someone who has spent time working in the tech industry, I understand the power of technology to influence our lives, to bring us closer, and to shape a more equitable future. At the same time, the impact this industry has on our city has not always shared these values.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transportation has been my passion for the last 10 years or so. Every single building that gets built in San Francisco has to be putting money in [for transportation offsets]. The problem that we’ve seen in development in San Francisco is a lot of the development itself is happening to us, it’s not happening by us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually think the Navigation Center is an interesting model. I think there are a lot of different ways that we need to be tackling homelessness in San Francisco, and the first of which is making sure we’re treating everybody with respect and taking a housing-first policy. This has to be something we do as a regional level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a strong economy, and yet we’re talking about all of the problems. I think San Francisco has a corruption problem at our core. My background is in tech, I work in tech, and we don‘t really have a tech problem. We have a corporate tech problem, and it’s money that’s coming with the corporate side and it’s working with the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://mayorgrandsf.org/\">Visit Reed Martin's website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16989_IMG_8866-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714015\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16989_IMG_8866-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kent Graham\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kent Graham\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Kent Graham\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to his website, Kent Graham holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and has a background in business management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\"I think San Francisco deserves a manager running the show and not a politician.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“I’m not so interested in what’s going to happen 20 or 30 years from now. I mean, I know we have to do it, and the transportation systems, the high-speed rails, that all has to come. But I’m going to put emphasis on how do we get this done in the next six months?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“Homelessness is not a crime, it’s a condition. Before you can do anything, you have to go up to the person, find out why he’s homeless, get a read on that. Social workers in other areas of the country do this … it’s those types of things, we need more social workers involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“Well, I’m troubled by the amount of new development that comes in and doesn’t pay their fair share and has workers from out of town. You can’t keep doing that and sustain what we want in San Francisco. I think we have to tax the corporations at the rate that we need to support our current population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kentgraham4mayor.com/\">Visit Graham's website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Nov. 3, San Francisco voters will be asked to decide between Mayor Ed Lee and five other candidates for San Francisco's top political job, which Lee has held since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>None of Lee’s challengers have a track record in politics, nor do they have strong name recognition. The mayor has received nearly $1.5 million in campaign contributions, compared with about $42,000 raised by all five of his opponents combined. Some news outlets have gone so far as to state that Lee is running unopposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet his challengers are still making the rounds to try and drum up support as Election Day nears, holding happy hours to introduce themselves to voters or even climbing aboard Muni buses to deliver impromptu stump speeches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 8, every contender who has thrown his or her hat into the ring had a chance to sound off at a forum organized by the San Francisco League of Women Voters. Questions were formulated by members of the audience, and contenders were allotted 60 seconds each to deliver an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228407701&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228407701'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a rundown of who's running and what they said in response to selected questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714013\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16996_IMG_8998-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714013\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16996_IMG_8998-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Mayor Ed Lee, incumbent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was appointed to serve as interim mayor by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in January 2011 after then-Mayor Gavin Newsom was elected lieutenant governor. Despite initially stating that he had no intention of seeking a full term, Lee entered the November 2011 race and won. Among his opponents were two members of the Board of Supervisors and several elected officials who held citywide office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>In 2011, \"We were coming out of the worst recession ever. People were looking for all kinds of answers, but they ultimately wanted jobs. And the reason that I concentrated with supervisors on Mid-Market was ... every third storefront was empty. Porno shops every block ... There was misery in that whole site. ... So I made a promise ... that we would show our efforts there as to how to clean it up. Well, guess who led that effort? It was local artists. ... Yes, the companies took advantage, at our invitation, to come in for six-year exemption. And guess what? It's revitalizing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“We put together a transportation task force … but we do need infrastructure money. And I am a true believer in not only making sure we extend the Central Subway to Fisherman’s Wharf ... I think we need to have more subway systems in the city, we need to have that extra BART tube ... and we need to have the federal government and the state government support us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“We have thousands of people on the streets. Our latest model, which is the Navigation Center, we believe puts together the best services. But also [it's] inviting, gets rid of the shelter rules and makes sure people live in dignity as we place hundreds of units of housing behind that. We should work with the school district, with the Human Services Agency, to make sure that our children who are in school who are homeless … to make sure there is sustained housing for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “This past year we were able to pass a two-year budget that had no budget cuts … because we have a very strong economy. That strong economy is a reflection of good relationships with our business community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee has collected endorsements from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Gov. 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I came up with an idea called transitional eco-villages where we identify all of the under-utilized city property ... and we create these transitional eco-villages. I call it the St. Francisco Super Bowl Homelessness Challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Note: Weiss said her project title \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/08/24/super-bowl-50-homeless-san-francisco-mayor-ed-lee-super-bowl-city/\">is a reference to this statement\u003c/a> made by Mayor Lee.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A:\u003c/strong> “[Venture capitalist] Ron Conway was actually part of the plan to change our tax structure in San Francisco … but we went too far with that, and we should have put more onus on tech companies who are coming into our city to pay their fair share. … As mayor, I’m going to figure out how we get more balance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss received second-place endorsements from the San Francisco Green Party and SEIU Local 1021, the city's largest public employee union, among others. \u003ca href=\"http://www.thinktwicevoteweiss.com\">Visit her website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16987_IMG_8844-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10713999 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16987_IMG_8844-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS16987_IMG_8844-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stuart Schuffman\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Stuart Schuffman, aka “Broke-Ass Stuart” \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schuffman writes a column for the San Francisco Examiner titled \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/category/the-city/sf-news-columns/broke-ass-city/\">\"Broke-Ass City,\"\u003c/a> and is the author of \"Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide to Living Cheaply in San Francisco\" and two other books on living cheaply. He also created and hosted a travel show on IFC called \"Young, Broke and Beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “People say they leave their heart in San Francisco -- I found my heart in San Francisco. I found a community, I found a place where everybody was welcome, no matter where they were from, or what they did, or what they were like. And that’s what we’re losing. Part of it has to do with housing, a lot of that has to do with corruption. We need to take our city back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“I met my first serious girlfriend on Muni. I love Muni. Part of being a San Franciscan is using mass transit ... The city feels congested … and part of that’s because of ride-sharing. … There has to be a way we can regulate who is driving here. Also, I think that if we put a higher charge on the stops of Google buses, then we can put that money into Muni.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“There’s roughly 10,000-ish homeless people on the streets of San Francisco. And there’s roughly 10,000-ish Airbnb rentals out there -- I’m just sayin’. ... These are people who are veterans, they are people who come from broken homes, people who come from abuse, they are people who need our help, and 71 percent of them were in San Francisco residences before they were on the streets. And so, we need housing first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make them pay their taxes! I can’t wait for these tax breaks to expire -- $55 million worth of tax breaks were given to these tech companies. There are three meals per day served at the Twitter building, and there’s one meal per person at St. Anthony’s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schuffman was endorsed by comedian Margaret Cho -- because, according to his blog post, she was impressed with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4SpQnlS0zo\">plan for solving San Francisco's poop problem\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://brokeassmayor.nationbuilder.com/\">Visit Stuart Schuffman's website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17000_IMG_9053-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10714000 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17000_IMG_9053-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"RS17000_IMG_9053-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco Herrera\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Francisco Herrera\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco Herrera has lived in the city for nearly 30 years. Originally from Mexicali, he studied political science and graduated with a master's degree in theology. He's a musician, activist and co-founder of San Francisco's Day Labor Program. After his closing remarks at the forum, Herrera treated participants to a short \u003cem>a cappella\u003c/em> tune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> “Forty thousand jobs -- but for people who don’t live here. Ten thousand people have been kicked out of the Mission. The Bayview-Hunters Point has been completely devastated. People are feeling the angst, a general angst, at what this has created. So, this planning is not for us. We have to come back to plan and develop for our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A:\u003c/strong> “We need to start by limiting where these [tech] buses travel. We need to have them pay into the public common good, so that we can have a better Muni for all workers together. This corporate cheating, corporate welfare called tax breaks, just does not work, and it creates a two-tier among working people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Herrera:\u003c/strong> “Homelessness starts at the moment that people can’t pay the rent. There’s folks who have jobs who are living in their cars. … We all have to support\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201510050900\"> Prop. F\u003c/a> and we have to support the systems that are helping people deal with their own experience of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Herrera:\u003c/strong> “This whole idea of tax breaks is nothing but corporate welfare. … Make the investor pay their fair share.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera won first-place endorsements from SEIU Local 1021 and the San Francisco Green Party, among others. \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplescampaign.net/\">Visit his website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16990_IMG_8878-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714014 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16990_IMG_8878-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Reed Martin\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Reed Martin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed Martin is a tech-sector employee who also serves on the board of San Francisco Transit Riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In his words: \u003c/strong> \"As someone who has spent time working in the tech industry, I understand the power of technology to influence our lives, to bring us closer, and to shape a more equitable future. At the same time, the impact this industry has on our city has not always shared these values.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. How will you address this problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transportation has been my passion for the last 10 years or so. Every single building that gets built in San Francisco has to be putting money in [for transportation offsets]. The problem that we’ve seen in development in San Francisco is a lot of the development itself is happening to us, it’s not happening by us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: What will you do about the increase in homeless families prior to the Super Bowl (and afterward)?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually think the Navigation Center is an interesting model. I think there are a lot of different ways that we need to be tackling homelessness in San Francisco, and the first of which is making sure we’re treating everybody with respect and taking a housing-first policy. This has to be something we do as a regional level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a strong economy, and yet we’re talking about all of the problems. I think San Francisco has a corruption problem at our core. My background is in tech, I work in tech, and we don‘t really have a tech problem. We have a corporate tech problem, and it’s money that’s coming with the corporate side and it’s working with the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://mayorgrandsf.org/\">Visit Reed Martin's website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10714015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16989_IMG_8866-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10714015\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16989_IMG_8866-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kent Graham\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kent Graham\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Candidate: Kent Graham\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to his website, Kent Graham holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and has a background in business management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>In his words:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\"I think San Francisco deserves a manager running the show and not a politician.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: The current transportation infrastructure in San Francisco is inadequate to accommodate the rapid influx of new residents supported by the unbridled building boom. 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Social workers in other areas of the country do this … it’s those types of things, we need more social workers involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Q: As mayor, how will you ensure that tech companies pay their fair share of taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>“Well, I’m troubled by the amount of new development that comes in and doesn’t pay their fair share and has workers from out of town. You can’t keep doing that and sustain what we want in San Francisco. I think we have to tax the corporations at the rate that we need to support our current population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California now requires police to get a court order before they can search messages, photos and other digital data stored on phones or company servers in the nation's most populous state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil liberties advocates called the new law an important advance and said it highlights the need for similar protections at the national level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB178\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Communications Privacy Act\u003c/a> was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday. It's only the third of its kind in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some states guarantee some of its protections, only Maine and Utah previously had comprehensive laws on the books, noted Hanni Fakhoury, senior staff attorney for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/victory-california-gov-brown-signs-calecpa-requiring-police-get-warrant-accessing\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an expansive bill and this being California, it covers a lot of people,\" Fakhoury said of the state with a population of about 39 million. \"It's an important thing and a good development.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The digital rights group, along with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/news/landmark-victory-digital-privacy-gov-brown-signs-california-electronic-communications-privacy\" target=\"_blank\">American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a>, news organizations and tech companies worked for the bill's passage. They argued that previous California law dating back to the 1980s was in desperate need of an update given the dramatic changes in the digital world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill's opponents, including several California police groups, argued that the measure would hamper the ability of law enforcement to investigate child pornographers and others who commit crimes online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement requests for people's electronic information, particularly from technology companies such as Google and Twitter, have skyrocketed in recent years, said Nicole Ozer, technology and civil liberties policy director for the ACLU of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, all that was generally needed to get the information was a subpoena. Now, under the new law, a warrant will be required in most cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really is a true update of privacy law for the digital world, making sure that sensitive information about who we are, and where we go, and what we do, and who we know is protected from government intrusion,\" Ozer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that \"hopefully this will send an important message to Congress to make sure that all Americans have these important, updated privacy protections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates have tried to pass legislation at the national level for years without any success. The Email Privacy Act, a proposed update to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, has 300 sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives, but its future remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The United States denied Modi a visa in 2005 over allegations that he failed to intervene to stop Hindus from killing hundreds of Muslims in Gujarat state, where he was chief minister. He was eventually cleared of complicity by India’s Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi told the cheering crowd in San Jose that he doesn’t see their exodus as a brain drain but as a “brain deposit.” Many engineers and other educated Indians flocked to Silicon Valley in the 1980s, because they felt that innovation was stifled by political and social forces in India. 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San Jose police tried to keep protesters and supporters apart, but yelling matches often broke out before Modi’s speech began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In India it is a Modi-cracy, not a democracy,” said Bajin Singh outside the arena. “There are forced conversions, there are genocides. It is a nation that wants to have one religion, one identity and one look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One climate change protester said Modi can’t have it both ways on energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Modi is talking about the largest rollout of solar power anywhere, but he’s also talking about a massive increase in coal burning. And there’s no point in increasing solar if you’re just going to increase coal burning,” said Neil Tangri of Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Indian gay rights activist, who did not want to be identified, said Modi needs to legalize homosexuality, which is considered a crime in India. 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"content": "\u003cp>In India, middle-class couples used to find each other and marry through family connections, a marriage broker or by way of a newspaper ad. Today, they — and their counterparts around the world — are just as likely to use any one of an explosion of matrimonial websites, some with apps for your smartphone. Two of the largest sites are \u003ca href=\"http://www.shaadi.com/\">\u003cu>Shaadi.com\u003c/u>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/\">\u003cu>Bharatmatrimony.com\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10689918\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10689918\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1-400x710.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot from the iPhone app.\" width=\"200\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1-400x710.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen shot from the iPhone app. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of BharatMatrimony)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A growing number of the profiles on these sites are written by the hopeful wedding seekers themselves, but those with a more traditional mindset will allow their parents to write them. 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One day her father called from her hometown of Chennai in southern India. “We’re going to put up a profile for you on Bharatmatrimony.com,” he said matter-of-factly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don’t miss an episode of ‘Love in the Digital Age’\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Gomathi delights in sharing what happened next. “He started entering \u003cem>his\u003c/em> profile information. He typed his name, he typed his age, and he typed all stuff about him.” In retrospect, she figures he probably thought he was registering, as opposed to creating a profile. But the error became apparent when the first bite of interest came from an older woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad was like, ‘Why is someone who is 50 years old giving information for my daughter?’ ” Gomathi giggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tech-savvy cousin soon came to the rescue — and now Gomathi was on the hot seat. “Within two weeks, he [her father] came back with a list of 15 guys. I was really overwhelmed!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She demurred, but her dad insisted, and then begged her to at least call his favorite: Prashanth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prashanth\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth Vishnumangalam Narayanan was 27, a Fremont resident and established consultant on supply chain management for PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Jose, when he started getting curious calls from his mother in Chennai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10694743\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 361px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10694743\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GomathiPrashanthVERT.jpg\" alt=\"Gomathi and Prashanth\" width=\"361\" height=\"554\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gomathi and Prashanth\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She told him women were expressing interest in getting to know him better, which made no sense, until she admitted she’d posted a profile of him online. Soon after, she sent him a list of 25 matches. And she hardly let the matter rest there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had my mom’s sister call me and say, ‘This is the right time to talk.’ Then I had my grandma call me and say, ‘This is the right time to talk.’ Then my dad, then everybody, decided to take turns calling me, and say, ‘This is the right time to talk,’ ” says Prashanth. It was obvious he had to talk to somebody, soon. He had to name at least one candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth chose Gomathi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Semi-Arranged Marriage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though their parents wrote the profiles, picked the candidates and met each other before giving the go-ahead to Gomathi and Prashanth, they call the process that led to their wedding \u003cem>semi-arranged. \u003c/em>That’s because they did get to pick who to talk to, and they got to talk for nine months before settling on each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth explains, “I got introduced to the person I was getting married to through family relations and connections, and they established the connection through a digital website. But then we talked, and we really understood each other, and we got married. I had my freedom, and she had her freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, even with the freedom to choose over time, they still felt pressure to come to a decision eventually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”SkD29tNEiyVCEFchT7DTtN443eU0BTSA”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had Gomathi and Prashanth not liked each other, they would have worked through match No. 2, No. 3 — and so on — until they agreed to somebody their parents found suitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomathi says the two sets of parents got along really well. “Based on their hard work, they were able to come up in life,” she says. “That was something, that both of them have mutual respect for each other. That was something that I also wanted in the person that I was going to marry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the first phone call. “I remember Gomathi being the one who asked a lot more questions than me asking her,” says Prashanth, laughing. “She was like, ‘Who’s your favorite actress? Who’s your favorite actor? What movies do you like?’ I found her to be very full of energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple began phoning, texting and talking on FaceTime regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few months, Prashanth and Gomathi decided to meet in Canada. The gravity of it all hit Prashanth as he went through the airport in Edmonton. When the visa officer asked him the purpose of his visit, he said he was going to see “a friend.” A friend he had never met, perhaps his future wife. Prashanth had seen Gomathi only virtually, and he scanned the airport for her. “She seemed small. And I was like, “I’ve seen her before.’ Then I realized: That’s Gomathi!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10689853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10689853 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Gomathi and Prashanth at home in Fremont, California\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gomathi and Prashanth at home in Fremont, California \u003ccite>(Polly Stryker/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gomathi remembers, “It felt really odd, because you have spoken to this person over the phone, but you haven’t met the other person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They spent a long weekend getting to know each other: going out to eat, taking walks, watching the movie “Brave.” When Gomathi cried during the film, Prashanth felt touched by her empathy with the characters. But by the time he left Canada, Gomathi had not made a decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt kind of sad,” Prashanth says. “I thought, initially, I wasn’t emotionally invested, but I learned that I’d been \u003cem>heavily\u003c/em> emotionally invested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to understand the person really well before getting married,” Gomathi says, “because it’s a one-time thing, and you just don’t want to screw it up. You just don’t want to make a decision until you know, ‘Yes, this is it!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth’s mother urged him to talk to other matches from Bharat Matrimony. He told her he wasn’t interested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple talked for several more months. Gomathi says her love for Prashanth “deepened more when I realized who Prashanth was and what sort of a guy he was. When I was able to trust him, I really fell for him. I know in my heart that he has high moral standards. That was the point that I came to when I decided, ‘Yes, I should get engaged to Prashanth.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t hurt that Prashanth plays a mean game of badminton, Gomathi’s favorite sport. The wedding was on. Their families organized a lavish three-day event that took place in Chennai on June 28, 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fremont, Capital of Indian California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Gomathi and Prashanth live in Fremont, home to a large and growing population of immigrants from India, filled with bustling Indian restaurants and stores. \u003ca href=\"http://politicalscience.ucr.edu/people/faculty/ramakrishnan/\">\u003cu>Karthick Ramakrishnan\u003c/u>\u003c/a> (no relation to Gomathi), professor of Public Policy at UC Riverside, says that Indian immigration more than doubled in Silicon Valley between 2000-2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10689913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10689913 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-800x667.jpg\" alt='Indian population size and growth in Alameda and Santa Clara counties from 2000-2014, according to the U.S. Census, as distinct from the \"Other Asian\" category.' width=\"800\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-400x333.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-1440x1200.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-1180x983.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-960x800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian population size and growth in Alameda and Santa Clara counties from 2000-2014, according to the U.S. Census, as distinct from the “Other Asian” category. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Professor Karthick Ramakrishnan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That shift is reflected in the number of Californians on Indian matrimonial websites. Shaadi’s chief marketing officer, \u003ca href=\"http://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/the-people-report/aditya-save-is-shaadi-coms-new-cmo-anupam-mittal-steps-down-as-ceo/48013510\">\u003cu>\u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff\">Aditya Save\u003c/span>\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, says approximately 200,000 accounts are registered to people living in the state. He adds that the platform is used mostly by South Asians — and not just first-generation immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our platform is used by people of Indian origin, born in the U.S., the UK and Australia. A larger percentage of that 200,000 (in California) would be people who are American citizens, born in America, but of Indian descent,” he says. For those spouse seekers, Save says it’s more likely they’ll set up their own profiles, as opposed to letting their parents do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Gomathi Ramakrishnan co-manages a neuroscience lab at UC San Francisco. Prashanth still works at PricewaterhouseCoopers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their lives as newlyweds are filled with pleasures they enjoy together: playing badminton, watching TV shows like “\u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones\">\u003cu>Game of Thrones\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones\">”\u003c/a> and eating ice cream at \u003ca href=\"mailto:https://www.coldstonecreamery.com\">\u003cu>Cold Stone Creamery\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. Gomathi isn’t shy when she explains how she and Prashanth found compatibility first, allowing love to follow after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Love doesn’t happen one sudden day,” she says. “It takes a really long time. I feel like we are still falling in love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u003cem>This podcast features music by Karthick Iyer (“Brovabarama” and “Manavyalakim”).\u003c/em> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In India, middle-class couples used to find each other and marry through family connections, a marriage broker or by way of a newspaper ad. Today, they — and their counterparts around the world — are just as likely to use any one of an explosion of matrimonial websites, some with apps for your smartphone. Two of the largest sites are \u003ca href=\"http://www.shaadi.com/\">\u003cu>Shaadi.com\u003c/u>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/\">\u003cu>Bharatmatrimony.com\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10689918\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10689918\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1-400x710.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot from the iPhone app.\" width=\"200\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1-400x710.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen shot from the iPhone app. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of BharatMatrimony)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A growing number of the profiles on these sites are written by the hopeful wedding seekers themselves, but those with a more traditional mindset will allow their parents to write them. That was the case for Gomathi Ramakrishnan and her husband, Prashanth Vishnumangalam Narayanan:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gomathi: She’s intelligent…pursing her Master’s in Canada…she’s homely and traditional…plays Badminton…she’s cute. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Prashanth: He’s an Iyer Brahmin…he doesn’t eat meat…he doesn’t drink. He’s a good boy. He’s done his bachelor’s, he’s done his master’s, and he’s based out of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gomathi\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three years ago, Gomathi was 22 years old and working to complete a master’s degree in neuroscience at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. One day her father called from her hometown of Chennai in southern India. “We’re going to put up a profile for you on Bharatmatrimony.com,” he said matter-of-factly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don’t miss an episode of ‘Love in the Digital Age’\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Gomathi delights in sharing what happened next. “He started entering \u003cem>his\u003c/em> profile information. He typed his name, he typed his age, and he typed all stuff about him.” In retrospect, she figures he probably thought he was registering, as opposed to creating a profile. But the error became apparent when the first bite of interest came from an older woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad was like, ‘Why is someone who is 50 years old giving information for my daughter?’ ” Gomathi giggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tech-savvy cousin soon came to the rescue — and now Gomathi was on the hot seat. “Within two weeks, he [her father] came back with a list of 15 guys. I was really overwhelmed!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She demurred, but her dad insisted, and then begged her to at least call his favorite: Prashanth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prashanth\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth Vishnumangalam Narayanan was 27, a Fremont resident and established consultant on supply chain management for PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Jose, when he started getting curious calls from his mother in Chennai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10694743\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 361px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10694743\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GomathiPrashanthVERT.jpg\" alt=\"Gomathi and Prashanth\" width=\"361\" height=\"554\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gomathi and Prashanth\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She told him women were expressing interest in getting to know him better, which made no sense, until she admitted she’d posted a profile of him online. Soon after, she sent him a list of 25 matches. And she hardly let the matter rest there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had my mom’s sister call me and say, ‘This is the right time to talk.’ Then I had my grandma call me and say, ‘This is the right time to talk.’ Then my dad, then everybody, decided to take turns calling me, and say, ‘This is the right time to talk,’ ” says Prashanth. It was obvious he had to talk to somebody, soon. He had to name at least one candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth chose Gomathi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Semi-Arranged Marriage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though their parents wrote the profiles, picked the candidates and met each other before giving the go-ahead to Gomathi and Prashanth, they call the process that led to their wedding \u003cem>semi-arranged. \u003c/em>That’s because they did get to pick who to talk to, and they got to talk for nine months before settling on each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth explains, “I got introduced to the person I was getting married to through family relations and connections, and they established the connection through a digital website. But then we talked, and we really understood each other, and we got married. I had my freedom, and she had her freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, even with the freedom to choose over time, they still felt pressure to come to a decision eventually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had Gomathi and Prashanth not liked each other, they would have worked through match No. 2, No. 3 — and so on — until they agreed to somebody their parents found suitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomathi says the two sets of parents got along really well. “Based on their hard work, they were able to come up in life,” she says. “That was something, that both of them have mutual respect for each other. That was something that I also wanted in the person that I was going to marry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the first phone call. “I remember Gomathi being the one who asked a lot more questions than me asking her,” says Prashanth, laughing. “She was like, ‘Who’s your favorite actress? Who’s your favorite actor? What movies do you like?’ I found her to be very full of energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple began phoning, texting and talking on FaceTime regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few months, Prashanth and Gomathi decided to meet in Canada. The gravity of it all hit Prashanth as he went through the airport in Edmonton. When the visa officer asked him the purpose of his visit, he said he was going to see “a friend.” A friend he had never met, perhaps his future wife. Prashanth had seen Gomathi only virtually, and he scanned the airport for her. “She seemed small. And I was like, “I’ve seen her before.’ Then I realized: That’s Gomathi!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10689853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10689853 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Gomathi and Prashanth at home in Fremont, California\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gomathi and Prashanth at home in Fremont, California \u003ccite>(Polly Stryker/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gomathi remembers, “It felt really odd, because you have spoken to this person over the phone, but you haven’t met the other person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They spent a long weekend getting to know each other: going out to eat, taking walks, watching the movie “Brave.” When Gomathi cried during the film, Prashanth felt touched by her empathy with the characters. But by the time he left Canada, Gomathi had not made a decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt kind of sad,” Prashanth says. “I thought, initially, I wasn’t emotionally invested, but I learned that I’d been \u003cem>heavily\u003c/em> emotionally invested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to understand the person really well before getting married,” Gomathi says, “because it’s a one-time thing, and you just don’t want to screw it up. You just don’t want to make a decision until you know, ‘Yes, this is it!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth’s mother urged him to talk to other matches from Bharat Matrimony. He told her he wasn’t interested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple talked for several more months. Gomathi says her love for Prashanth “deepened more when I realized who Prashanth was and what sort of a guy he was. When I was able to trust him, I really fell for him. I know in my heart that he has high moral standards. That was the point that I came to when I decided, ‘Yes, I should get engaged to Prashanth.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t hurt that Prashanth plays a mean game of badminton, Gomathi’s favorite sport. The wedding was on. 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