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"content": "\u003cp>Ideas we might normally dismiss out of hand, like how Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/for-the-last-year-youtube-has-been-cracking-down-on-hoaxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Gates cooked up COVID-19\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51735367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that garlic can cure the disease\u003c/a>, can seem more credible during times of crisis or when we’re feeling unsure about information coming from experts and political authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why social media platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter are plowing ahead with efforts to emphasize real news and de-emphasize fake news surrounding the coronavirus as the pandemic intensifies. Is it working? Kind of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve been at it since January, in coordination with agencies like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Health Organization\u003c/a>, which declared the crisis a pandemic on Wednesday. But during public health emergencies, fear and cynicism have a way of amplifying fake news on the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, if you search for the word coronavirus on \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2020/01/coronavirus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a>, you’ll see evidence of a new policy CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced last week. “A search for coronavirus on Facebook will surface a pop-up that directs you to the World Health Organization or your local health authority for the latest information,” the company wrote. “If you’re in a country where the WHO has reported person-to-person transmission, you’ll also see it in your News Feed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11806070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-09-at-1.32.33-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1276\" height=\"1526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-09-at-1.32.33-PM.png 1276w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-09-at-1.32.33-PM-160x191.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-09-at-1.32.33-PM-800x957.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-09-at-1.32.33-PM-1020x1220.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1276px) 100vw, 1276px\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Facebook also said it is blocking content that could cause people harm, such as claims that discourage seeking treatment or taking appropriate precautions against the coronavirus. 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When we try to fill gaps quickly and simplistically, we can fall prey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complex explanations, Vincent said, require cognitive effort, and the heavy lift can seem less appealing than the “easy” answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, though, that it’s the same social media platforms that have trained us to respond quickly (and potentially irrationally) to novel information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And don’t be alarmed by the screenshot below. This is what you should see if YouTube is successfully shutting down videos with misinformation in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11806149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1796px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11806149 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-11-at-8.01.55-AM.png\" alt=\"If YouTube's content filters are working, you should see something like this when you click on misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. \" width=\"1796\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-11-at-8.01.55-AM.png 1796w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-11-at-8.01.55-AM-160x89.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-11-at-8.01.55-AM-800x446.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-11-at-8.01.55-AM-1020x569.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1796px) 100vw, 1796px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If YouTube’s content filters are working, you should see something like this when you click on misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Dangers of Engaging\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s been a fair amount of news coverage about retailers like Amazon and eBay trying to cut down on price-gouging. But that’s only one form of profiteering during this pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, social media and phishing emails have led people to websites that promise information, a cure, or survival goods like face masks, and then proceed to steal credit card information and other personal details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cybersecurity firm \u003ca href=\"https://www.cybertalk.org/2020/03/06/coronavirus-themed-domains-50-more-likely-to-be-malicious-than-other-domains/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Point\u003c/a> reported that coronavirus-themed domains are 50% more likely to be malicious than other domains. “Our \u003ca href=\"https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/02/13/january-2020s-most-wanted-malware-coronavirus-themed-spam-spreads-malicious-emotet-malware/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Threat Index for January 2020\u003c/a> shows that cyber criminals are exploiting interest in the global epidemic to spread malicious activity, with several spam campaigns related to the virus’s name,” the company wrote on its blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/03/04/trickbot-campaign-targets-coronavirus-fears-in-italy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sophos\u003c/a>, another cybersecurity company, found an uptick in so-called spear-phishing messages targeting people in Italy, where coronavirus infections have surged in recent weeks. 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When we try to fill gaps quickly and simplistically, we can fall prey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complex explanations, Vincent said, require cognitive effort, and the heavy lift can seem less appealing than the “easy” answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, though, that it’s the same social media platforms that have trained us to respond quickly (and potentially irrationally) to novel information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And don’t be alarmed by the screenshot below. This is what you should see if YouTube is successfully shutting down videos with misinformation in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11806149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1796px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11806149 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-11-at-8.01.55-AM.png\" alt=\"If YouTube's content filters are working, you should see something like this when you click on misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. \" width=\"1796\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-11-at-8.01.55-AM.png 1796w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-11-at-8.01.55-AM-160x89.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-11-at-8.01.55-AM-800x446.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-11-at-8.01.55-AM-1020x569.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1796px) 100vw, 1796px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If YouTube’s content filters are working, you should see something like this when you click on misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Dangers of Engaging\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s been a fair amount of news coverage about retailers like Amazon and eBay trying to cut down on price-gouging. But that’s only one form of profiteering during this pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, social media and phishing emails have led people to websites that promise information, a cure, or survival goods like face masks, and then proceed to steal credit card information and other personal details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cybersecurity firm \u003ca href=\"https://www.cybertalk.org/2020/03/06/coronavirus-themed-domains-50-more-likely-to-be-malicious-than-other-domains/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Point\u003c/a> reported that coronavirus-themed domains are 50% more likely to be malicious than other domains. “Our \u003ca href=\"https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/02/13/january-2020s-most-wanted-malware-coronavirus-themed-spam-spreads-malicious-emotet-malware/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Threat Index for January 2020\u003c/a> shows that cyber criminals are exploiting interest in the global epidemic to spread malicious activity, with several spam campaigns related to the virus’s name,” the company wrote on its blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/03/04/trickbot-campaign-targets-coronavirus-fears-in-italy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sophos\u003c/a>, another cybersecurity company, found an uptick in so-called spear-phishing messages targeting people in Italy, where coronavirus infections have surged in recent weeks. 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"content": "\u003cp>Recently, business has been exceptionally slow for Erica Mighetto, who drives for Uber and Lyft in San Francisco. Even so, she’s still out there looking for passengers, and has taken steps to prepare for whatever rides do come along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she stops to pick me up in Glen Park earlier this week, Mighetto immediately rolls down the window before I get into her car and asks if I want her to put on a surgical mask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mighetto’s car is immaculate. There’s a lingering whiff of bleach from the disinfectant she has been religiously rubbing on the surfaces between passengers. Up front, behind the gear shift, she has a stack of pink surgical masks, which she said she received from a doctor at a hospital, who suggested she hand them out to any coughing passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last week, she received messages from both Lyft and Uber telling her to keep her car clean and to stock up on hand sanitizer, which she found most stores had sold out of. A few days later, Lyft said it was providing sanitizer to drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11806430\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41943_006_KQED_Oakland_RideHail_03102020_6658-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11806430\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41943_006_KQED_Oakland_RideHail_03102020_6658-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41943_006_KQED_Oakland_RideHail_03102020_6658-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41943_006_KQED_Oakland_RideHail_03102020_6658-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41943_006_KQED_Oakland_RideHail_03102020_6658-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41943_006_KQED_Oakland_RideHail_03102020_6658-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ride-hail driver Erica Mighetto disinfects the door handles of her car between rides. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hospital doctor Mighetto consulted with said she should use a mask as well, but she remains hesitant to wear one when picking up passengers, concerned it will freak them out. Everyone is already on edge, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mighetto is scared, too. She doesn’t want to be on the road driving, which she thinks could be particularly dangerous for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a heart condition called supraventricular tachycardia,” she tells me. “Ten years ago I had surgery, and I haven’t been monitored since then. I don’t have a primary care practitioner or a cardiologist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really nerve-wracking to be out here driving people around,” she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But coronavirus fears aside, Mighetto has little choice but to continue driving this month; she needs the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Erica Mighetto, ride-hail driver\"]‘I just have no choice whatsoever. I am running myself into financial despair.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now in her late 30s, Mighetto used to work as an accountant in Sacramento. Driving for a ride-hailing service was never part of her game plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mighetto hasn’t had a steady job since working at a property management firm three years ago. She says it started as a bookkeeping gig, but increasingly involved hounding tenants for money and issuing eviction notices. She started feeling sick about the work and eventually quit, she says, and took up driving for Lyft while looking for something more permanent. She never imagined she’d be working behind the wheel for this long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four months ago, Mighetto says her landlord kicked out all the tenants in her apartment building, offering a small buyout. Since then, she’s been staying on friends’ couches and renting rooms in hostels while searching for a permanent residence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, Mighetto is driving as many hours as she can with the hope of scraping together enough money for a new apartment. But it’s an uphill battle. Between her car payments and credit cards, she is $18,000 in debt. Sometimes, to save money after a night shift, she folds down her backseat, pulls out a pillow she keeps tucked in the spare tire cavity and sleeps in her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the life Mighetto envisioned when she left her last job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11806429\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41942_005_KQED_Oakland_RideHail_03102020_-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11806429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41942_005_KQED_Oakland_RideHail_03102020_-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41942_005_KQED_Oakland_RideHail_03102020_-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41942_005_KQED_Oakland_RideHail_03102020_-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41942_005_KQED_Oakland_RideHail_03102020_-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41942_005_KQED_Oakland_RideHail_03102020_-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Mighetto on the job in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You just get sucked into it,” she says. “The bills stack up and the credit card debt mounts and you have to get that clutch and you have to get that battery and you go from a paycheck-to-paycheck basis to a cash-out-to-cash-out basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mighetto says she has an automatic phone payment coming up in two days that she currently doesn’t have enough money to cover, and she just received an email from her credit card company about an outstanding bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just have no choice whatsoever. I am running myself into financial despair,” she says, noting that the coronavirus has only made the situation tougher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]Earlier this week, Lyft and Uber \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/09/uber-lyft-to-offer-paid-sick-leave-to-any-coronavirus-infected-driver/\">both announced\u003c/a> plans to provide up to 14 days of sick leave for their drivers, but only if they’ve been “diagnosed with the coronavirus” or have been ordered to self-quarantine. Neither company has stated how much drivers can get compensated. And because both companies are continuing to classify their drivers as contractors, none are guaranteed minimum wage, regardless of drops in ridership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are as many as 2.5 million Lyft and Uber drivers in the U.S., most of whom do not receive any paid time off. But this predicament is certainly not unique to gig workers, says Elise Gould, an economist with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, pointing to wider economic trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. is one of the only industrialized countries in the world that doesn’t require paid sick leave (South Korea is the other), and a huge contingent of U.S. workers don’t have adequate access to paid time off or the capability to work from home, Gould says. The less workers make, she notes, the greater the chance they lack these benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To drive her point home, Gould points to \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/work-sick-or-lose-pay-the-high-cost-of-being-sick-when-you-dont-get-paid-sick-days/\">several data sets\u003c/a> based on figures from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that about 30% of all private sector workers in the U.S. have no access to paid sick days and only about 4% of workers have access to more than 14 paid sick days. Meanwhile, almost everyone in the top 10% has access to paid time off, while less than a third of the bottom 10% do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you are thinking about the workers who are living paycheck-to-paycheck,” Gould says, “those are the ones least likely to work from home or have those paid sick days.” When a pandemic hits and consumption slows down, these workers are on the front lines of the economic shockwave, she notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coronavirus is exposing this disparity of privilege between workers across the country, and the contrast is particularly stark in the Bay Area. Companies like Google and Facebook have told their office employees to work for home or take paid time off if they’re feeling sick. Lyft told its office employees to do the same. But if its drivers want to make money, they have no choice but to go out on the road whether or not they are afraid of getting sick or think they may be already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like many service workers without access to paid leave, gig drivers often go to work sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11806431\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41936_006_KQED_Alameda_EdanAlva_03102020_-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11806431\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41936_006_KQED_Alameda_EdanAlva_03102020_-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41936_006_KQED_Alameda_EdanAlva_03102020_-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41936_006_KQED_Alameda_EdanAlva_03102020_-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41936_006_KQED_Alameda_EdanAlva_03102020_-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41936_006_KQED_Alameda_EdanAlva_03102020_-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lyft driver Edan Alva in Alameda on March 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just over a month ago, Uber driver Edan Alva was exhibiting flu-like symptoms. And while he tried to “power through” at first, he says he eventually had to take time off, unpaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stayed at home for nearly a week to recover,” Alva says, “which put me financially into a very bad situation.” He says he doesn’t need the coronavirus to underscore how precarious his financial situation is without paid time off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just one more illustration of why drivers should organize and unionize and directly negotiate with Lyft,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Lyft and Uber recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/us/en/coronavirus/?_ga=2.36026087.699844506.1584045286-297668926.1584045286#drivers\">posted details\u003c/a> on their ongoing response to the coronavirus outbreak. Uber says it has already helped drivers in affected areas with its drivers fund, although it does not provide details on how many it’s supporting, or how much compensation they’ve received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Erica Mighetto worries she’s going to run out of options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people ask how you’re doing it always makes me cry because I appreciate the concern,” she says. “It’s lonely and it’s terrible and I made a promise to myself to at least acknowledge the people on the side of the road asking for money because I’m scared I could be that person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Quickly after he got on the road, he started organizing drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aloudi’s organizing work began at a Yemeni community center — he said a lot of Bay Area drivers are Yemeni, like him. At the center, he saw that his fellow drivers needed help, so he started getting their numbers and setting up groups on WhatsApp or Facebook for drivers to talk through their problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These groups were filling in for what Aloudi said the companies weren’t doing. Sometimes it was something simple — like a driver got a flat tire or had a dead battery. Other times he and others in the group would help drivers with something serious — like when they got kicked off the app or when they were assaulted by a passenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2014,\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2014/4/30/11626254/lyft-and-uber-price-wars-leave-some-drivers-feeling-crunched\"> a price war erupted\u003c/a> between Uber and Lyft, which were using their stockpiles of venture capital to fight for market share. Driver earnings began to plummet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aloudi and a few other drivers he was close with decided they should try to organize protests. They started getting fellow drivers to come out and publicly speak against what Uber and Lyft were doing to its workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Al Aloudi, who has been working for Uber and Lyft since 2013\"]‘Nobody is going to fight our fight. We’re going to have to fight our fight, but with the right people.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aloudi says drivers like him can only get Lyft and Uber to give them a good deal if they have a strong community. Now, after seven years in the business, he has a really strong community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My power is knowing people,” Aloudi said. “I don’t know people just from the profile on Facebook. I know people in real life.” And he knows a lot of people. Aloudi whips out his phone and shows me his contacts. He’s got the names, numbers and emails of over 4,000 local drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aloudi said because of his organizing, he was contacted by \u003ca href=\"https://gigworkersrising.org/\">Gig Workers Rising\u003c/a>. The group promised to help drivers like him get what they want and to have their voices heard, he said. Aloudi trusted them, so he handed over the list of drivers he’d spent years building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizing gig workers is difficult because companies still classify them as contractors, which has been used to bar them from joining a typical union.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719321/uber-continues-push-to-keep-paying-drivers-as-contractors-and-stanch-collective-bargaining-efforts\"> Companies like Uber and Lyft have fought hard and in various ways\u003c/a> to keep their workers from being employees, and therefore allowed the right to unionize. This leaves drivers with far less options than workers have in other industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When drivers in New York City were clamoring for some kind of organization to represent them, Uber stepped in to help set up an organization called \u003ca href=\"https://drivingguild.org\">The Independent Drivers Guild\u003c/a>. The guild receives money directly from Uber, and then funnels some of that money back to its union affiliate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of arrangement does not sit well with Aloudi and some of his fellow drivers in San Francisco. He doubts that the guild could really fight and represent drivers if it is taking money from Uber. Aloudi wants something different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Aloudi said, he thought Gig Workers Rising could help. He and his fellow drivers especially wanted them to help change the lack of benefits, the falling wages and the power Uber and Lyft have to deactivate drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few months, Aloudi felt like he was listened to less and less at meetings. On top of that, he’s heard a few things that alarmed him about the big unions like Teamsters and SEIU, which are involved with Gig Workers Rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, there were \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/business/economy/uber-lyft-drivers-unions.html\">reports\u003c/a> last fall that the Teamsters and SEIU were talking with Uber and Lyft about watering down California’s landmark gig worker law, AB 5. Word spread that instead of designating drivers as employees, the unions would make a deal that would keep them contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"ab-5\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are the emails from a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.tdu.org/the_final_fall_of_rome\">investigation into the Teamsters\u003c/a> by its Independent Investigation Officer. The emails are between members of Teamsters leadership, and they suggest that the union thought it could use Uber and Lyft drivers to make money. The emails reference the idea of setting up something like the Independent Drivers Guild in New York City, which remember, gets money directly from Uber and kicks that back to its union affiliate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the last straw for Aloudi. He said he doesn’t want to be involved with a big union that’s going to make backroom deals or that sees him and his fellow drivers as a potential source of income. He wishes he never gave up the contact information of all the drivers in the community he helped organize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Gig Workers Rising said it was never part of any deals to weaken California’s gig worker law, and while the group launched with support of Teamsters and SEIU, it is a separate entity. 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After a year, the bakers and chefs finally succeeded in getting their money back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Christmas Eve, a UPS delivery driver dropped off an envelope at Three Babes Bakeshop in the city’s Portola neighborhood. Inside was a check for $18,000. “I was so surprised I shrieked,” said owner Lenore Estrada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That check — almost all of the money Munchery owed Estrada when it closed last year — came with an unsigned note indicating it was from some “unspecified” investors and executives of the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804188\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41666_002_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4480-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804188\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41666_002_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4480-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41666_002_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4480-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41666_002_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4480-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41666_002_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4480-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41666_002_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4480-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caleb Roark puts crumble on a blackberry pie at the Three Babes Bakeshop in San Francisco on Feb. 28, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Until then, Estrada had assumed there was no way she would ever get that money back. Under Chapter 11 bankruptcy law, the company was not legally required to pay back vendors like Estrada, even though they had taken her pies and sold them. Estrada was incensed. She refused to just sit by and allow the company and its investors to ignore her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, Estrada took to social media to call out Munchery and its investors. Then she decided to hold a bake sale protest outside the offices of one of the venture capitalists who had invested in Munchery. After KQED reported it, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marketplace.org/2019/02/19/food-delivery-startup-munchery-folds-leaving-small-businesses-hook/\">the story got picked up by national news outlets.\u003c/a> Estrada thinks that attention did the trick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Lenore Estrada, Three Babes Bakeshop\"]‘There is something inherently wrong about the way the system is set up.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if we hadn’t stood up for ourselves and I hadn’t organized that protest and if we hadn’t made it really really public and sort of embarrassing for the Munchery investors and executives, I definitely don’t think we would have gotten paid,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estrada calls the unexpected reimbursement a “Christmas miracle.” It allowed her to give her employees holiday bonuses. But while grateful for the check, she said it doesn’t excuse what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she was scrambling to cover her $18,000 loss last year, many Munchery investors were making ample amounts of money on their other bets. Take Menlo Ventures: The firm lost money with Munchery but hit the jackpot with Uber, raking in millions in returns that it’s now investing in a new round of companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804192\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41667_003_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4483-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804192\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41667_003_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4483-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41667_003_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4483-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41667_003_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4483-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41667_003_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4483-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41667_003_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4483-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoe Williams boxes pies at Three Babes Bakeshop in San Francisco on Feb. 28, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This, of course, is not how business works for a baker or for any other small business. Think about it in terms of pies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I make tons of money on apple pies but lose tons of money on cherry pies,” Estrada said, “I still have to pay for the cherries and the labor to make the cherry pies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of venture capital, Estrada said, “There is something inherently wrong about the way the system is set up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Ventures, one of the Munchery’s investors, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other venture capitalists, like Eric Paley, a managing partner at Founder Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said he agrees with Estrada that there are some things inherently wrong in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the venture industries are really driven off the home runs,” Paley said. “Many VCs would rather push a business harder and see it fail than risk that it turns out to be an OK business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"venture-capital\"]An OK, or even a good business, might be good for society by doing something like, say, providing pies, but it doesn’t deliver the windfall profits that venture capitalists are hunting for, Paley explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>way of investing is increasingly becoming a part of how America does business. Venture capital investment in U.S. companies has risen every year since the financial crisis in 2008, and it is currently at an all time high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://pitchbook.com/media/press-releases/us-venture-capital-investment-surpasses-130-billion-in-2019-for-second-consecutive-year\">According to PitchBook\u003c/a>, $136 billion of VC money was poured into U.S. companies last year alone. To put that in perspective, that’s roughly $415 venture capital dollars invested last year for every child, woman and man in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paley said the entire venture capitalist ecosystem has grown toxic, with many investors encouraging companies to grow fast at all costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you put rocket fuel in a really nice car, you’re going to blow up that car,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you don’t even have to blow up the car to do serious damage, said Gerald Friedman, an economics professor at University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Just injecting tons of venture capital investment, which needs big returns to pay off, introduces a dangerous level of volatility, he said. Or, put more simply, “Hot money makes economies less stable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804196\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41673_009_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4559-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41673_009_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4559-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804196\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41673_009_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4559-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41673_009_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4559-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41673_009_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4559-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41673_009_KQED_ThreeBabesBakeshop_02282020_4559-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freshly baked pies at Three Babes Bakeshop in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Friedman and Paley both said there’s far too much venture capital in the system, which contributes to frequent booms and busts. Venture capitalists reap the rewards of the booms, but during the inevitable busts, smaller businesses who don’t have large stockpiles of cash to absorb the blows bear the brunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It creates an asymmetric situation. They can win, while you’re losing,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estrada said she’s happy she fought to get her money back. It means she can follow through with her plan to open a storefront at the end of March and focus exclusively on her business, rather than trying to hold venture capitalists accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s important, because unlike in the world of venture capital, Estrada doesn’t have the luxury of placing multiple bets and seeing which one pays off. She makes pies. And she only gets paid for the ones she sells, be they cherry, apple or bourbon pecan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From this reporter’s vantage point, not a single one of them looks like a bad bet at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Every Tuesday at around 3 p.m., taxi drivers start filing into San Francisco City Hall. On a recent week in February, Matt Sutter is the first one to arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutter is wearing track pants and a large, faded, gray T-shirt with a Chevy logo. He’s a core member of the Tuesday crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This group of about 10 drivers has been coming to City Hall weekly for almost three years to speak in the public comment section of the Board of Supervisors meeting. They have one mission: to get the city to buy back their $250,000 taxi medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city started selling medallions to drivers back in 2010, around the same time as the appearance of Lyft and Uber. Now drivers are struggling to make minimum wage, let alone pay down the loans on their medallions. They’re being crushed by the debt. Some have even \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798851/s-f-taxi-drivers-say-the-medallion-crisis-is-killing-them-literally\">died of stress-related illnesses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11803475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41225_002_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_02062020_1610-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41225_002_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_02062020_1610-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41225_002_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_02062020_1610-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41225_002_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_02062020_1610-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41225_002_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_02062020_1610-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bhupinder Singh, a taxi driver for the past 20 years, at San Francisco International Airport on Feb. 6, 2020. He has driven from Chico to SFO for the past 8 years to find passengers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At 4 p.m., the drivers enter City Hall. They walk under the building’s large central dome, past couples taking wedding photographs and up the long flight of stairs. At the top, they peak into the Board of Supervisors room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s packed with people. That’s not good — a busy room means a long agenda, and that means drivers will wait hours for the public comment period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Matt Sutter, San Francisco taxi driver\"]‘I hope you make the right decision by giving us back our money. That’s hard-earned family money.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drivers finally get their chance to speak around 6:30 p.m. Each driver has just two minutes at the microphone to tell their story. One by one, they approach the podium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope you make the right decision by giving us back our money,” Sutter tells them. “That’s hard-earned family money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harjeet Gargaria, another driver, says, “I don’t know if it’s because I look different — I look black, brown or whatever — but no one want to help us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Namdev Sharma is next. He wears a neatly pressed shirt tucked into a pair of slacks. It’s the outfit he always wears on City Hall days. His English isn’t perfect, and he has a few pages of handwritten notes. He carefully puts them on the lectern. But once he starts, he doesn’t even look at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You must not forget us,” he says. “It is unfair. You must think. You must heed our voice. You putted us to a dying situation. You have power to create destiny of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803474\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11803474\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41047_033_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0097-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41047_033_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0097-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41047_033_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0097-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41047_033_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0097-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41047_033_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0097-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxis fill the lower level of the short term parking garage as they wait to pick up passengers at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on Jan. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s estimated that it would take the city $160 million to buy back the medallions. New York City is already beginning a debt relief program for its drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what could be done here in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, there’s the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. The agency could potentially issue a bond to buy back the medallions. It has had the power to do so since voters approved Proposition A in 2007, but the SFMTA isn’t currently pursuing this route. If it did, it would need approval from the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option is for the supervisors to fund a buyback program from the city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston says something needs to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the city definitely owes a debt to the cab drivers who played by the rules for years, and then find themselves in financial dire straits through no fault of their own,” Preston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston isn’t the first supervisor to speak up. For the last two years, Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer has argued that the whole medallion system is broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a public meeting last June, Fewer said, “I personally don’t see any way out except to actually blow up the whole thing and redesign the whole thing over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She thinks San Francisco should come up with money to help the drivers out. “I just think the burden these people are living under is incredible,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803471\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11803471\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41226_003_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_02062020_1631-qut.jpg\" alt=\"taxi driver\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41226_003_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_02062020_1631-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41226_003_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_02062020_1631-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41226_003_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_02062020_1631-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41226_003_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_02062020_1631-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi driver Ali Alikhani at San Francisco International Airport on Feb. 6, 2020. As of 11:45 a.m., he has only had one passenger since starting work at 7 a.m. that day. He said that being a taxi driver is not a healthy work situation — they often work over 12 hours. He said, “Workers in factories have protections for work conditions. Taxi drivers don’t have that. What kind of life is that? Is this America?” \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Seven supervisors told KQED they support the city looking into debt relief. They include Preston, Fewer, Matt Haney, Aaron Peskin, Hillary Ronen, Catherine Stefani and Shamann Walton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Rafael Mandelman and Gordon Mar are undecided. Ahsha Safai and Norman Yee did not respond. 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The car’s forward collision avoidance system didn’t alert Huang, and its automatic emergency braking did not activate, the NTSB said. Also, Huang did not brake, and there was no steering movement detected to avoid the crash, the board’s staff said. 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That cushion had been damaged in a crash 11 days before Huang was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recommendations to NHTSA included expanded testing to make sure partially automated systems can avoid running into common obstacles such as a barrier. 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Mountain View Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga supports this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s more predictability on both sides, frankly — from the landlords’ side and the tenants’ side,” Abe-Koga said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called it “reasonable rent control.” She argues that, even if landlords increase rents by 0.5% to 4%, a Google employee making over $100,000 a year should be able to afford that compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel doesn’t agree. As an outspoken advocate for affordable housing, Siegel said a 0.5% increase to the rent cap could price out people already living paycheck to paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of software engineers who moved here to work for Google and other places. Well, they have cafeteria workers to feed them. 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Sabah Munawar moved to Mountain View about three years ago when her husband got a job at Nokia. They landed in a cozy, sunlit one bedroom apartment downtown they pay about $3,100 each month for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munawar’s apartment is across from City Hall, downtown and the public library, which was a big selling point for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of my apartments or my parents’ house has been walking distance from the library. That’s how it’s supposed to be,” Munawar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munawar has been politically active since high school, but for the first time, she’s been knocking on doors campaigning against Measure D. The rent cap isn’t her main concern — she is more nervous about another part of the measure which allows landlords to pass along the cost of improving a unit up to a 10% hike on the annual rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be displaced,” Munawar said. “We’d have to actually think about either moving or looking for other jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/Eg2VCn5zDjCGyrwzh9UTXd?domain=jointventure.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> historically high rents\u003c/a> in Silicon Valley, many landlords have dragged their feet upgrading the properties they own. For example, hundreds of soft-story apartment buildings remain \u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=15284\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seismically unfit\u003c/a> to withstand an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard from tenants who want upgrades who have been told ‘no’ because property owners don’t have a guarantee of cost recovery,” Mayor Abe-Koga said. She believes this provision in Measure D might encourage landlords to make these adjustments if they know they can pass along some of the cost to the renter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11803169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41398_005_KQED_Housing_MountainView_02192020_3321-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Measure D would exclude mobile home renters from the proposed rent cap. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Mobile Home Protections, or Lack Thereof\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Then there’s one group that is caught in the middle of this battle: mobile home renters. Right now, rent hikes for mobile homes aren’t covered under rent control and remain unregulated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bee Hanson moved to Santiago Villa, a large mobile home community near Google’s campus, more than 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"affordable-housing\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people in this park are seniors or disabled people that came in years and years ago in the ’60s when it was just a really low-cost place to live,” Hanson said. “And they’re kind of stuck now because they’re on fixed incomes and once they get a raise on rent, Social Security is not keeping up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure D specifically excludes mobile home renters from the rent cap. Abe-Koga plans to create a separate ordinance that would regulate rent hikes on mobile homes, but Alex Brown, another renter in Santiago Villa, is nervous that the eventual ordinance will offer weak protections against mobile home park owners. Brown wants mobile home parks to be included in the rent cap Measure D provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would close off an opportunity to get the protections offered to apartment residents in units built before 1995 in all of Mountain View,” Brown said. “And that’s tough because we have no other protections that are guaranteed or that look likely yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Campaign Spending: A David vs. Goliath Fight\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The optics on who supports Measure D versus who doesn’t might look skewed as many local tenants rights groups have come out against the measure, compared to the California Apartment Association (CAA) and other landlord-backed organizations that support it. The CAA has raised \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/RequestPDF.aspx?id=187077226\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$193,000\u003c/a> since the start of the year to back to “Yes On Measure D” campaign, while the opposition had been largely funded by Mountain View residents, totaling about $7,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was until \u003ca href=\"https://mv-voice.com/news/2020/02/20/mobile-home-park-owner-raises-94k-to-fight-measure-d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Feb.\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://mv-voice.com/news/2020/02/20/mobile-home-park-owner-raises-94k-to-fight-measure-d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 20\u003c/a> when the “No on Measure D” campaign got a $94,000 contribution. 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Mountain View Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga supports this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s more predictability on both sides, frankly — from the landlords’ side and the tenants’ side,” Abe-Koga said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called it “reasonable rent control.” She argues that, even if landlords increase rents by 0.5% to 4%, a Google employee making over $100,000 a year should be able to afford that compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel doesn’t agree. As an outspoken advocate for affordable housing, Siegel said a 0.5% increase to the rent cap could price out people already living paycheck to paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of software engineers who moved here to work for Google and other places. Well, they have cafeteria workers to feed them. 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Sabah Munawar moved to Mountain View about three years ago when her husband got a job at Nokia. They landed in a cozy, sunlit one bedroom apartment downtown they pay about $3,100 each month for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munawar’s apartment is across from City Hall, downtown and the public library, which was a big selling point for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of my apartments or my parents’ house has been walking distance from the library. That’s how it’s supposed to be,” Munawar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munawar has been politically active since high school, but for the first time, she’s been knocking on doors campaigning against Measure D. The rent cap isn’t her main concern — she is more nervous about another part of the measure which allows landlords to pass along the cost of improving a unit up to a 10% hike on the annual rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be displaced,” Munawar said. “We’d have to actually think about either moving or looking for other jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/Eg2VCn5zDjCGyrwzh9UTXd?domain=jointventure.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> historically high rents\u003c/a> in Silicon Valley, many landlords have dragged their feet upgrading the properties they own. For example, hundreds of soft-story apartment buildings remain \u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=15284\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seismically unfit\u003c/a> to withstand an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard from tenants who want upgrades who have been told ‘no’ because property owners don’t have a guarantee of cost recovery,” Mayor Abe-Koga said. 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And if a company negligently allows itself to be hacked, exposing your data, you can sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But already, there’s talk of another law: The \u003ca href=\"https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5aa18a452485b60001c301de/5d8bc3342a72fc8145920a32_CPREA_2020_092519_Annotated_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Privacy Rights Act\u003c/a> would add clarifying language to the newly enacted \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)\u003c/a>, stipulating, among other things, that businesses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Should not collect the personal information of children without consent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Should only collect consumers’ personal information for specific purposes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Should provide consumers with easily accessible tools to obtain their personal information, correct or delete it, and to opt‐out of its sale to other parties.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Perhaps most dramatically, the new initiative would create a new regulatory agency in California that would enforce protections in addition to the Attorney General’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have more privacy professionals in this agency, once it gets funded, up and operating if the initiative passes, than right now exists in the FTC [Federal Trade Commission] in the entire country,” said the man behind the existing law and the proposed initiative, \u003ca href=\"https://www.caprivacy.org/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alastair Mactaggart\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, he added, “Sensible companies realize this regulation is coming. This is not a burn-down-the-whole-world law. This is not a law that, you know, puts anybody out of business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real estate developer turned data privacy advocate has given a lot of thought in recent years to the surveillance economy that’s sprung up around consumer data. And he recognizes he’s not alone in feeling concerned about it: About 81% of the public say they feel “the potential risks they face because of data collection by companies outweigh the benefits,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-and-privacy-concerned-confused-and-feeling-lack-of-control-over-their-personal-information/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Pew Research Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike most of us, Mactaggart had the money to launch a political and legal conversation in California, although “conversation” is perhaps too polite a term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Mactaggart launched a ballot initiative to tackle consumer data privacy. Business interests, data privacy advocates and members of the state Legislature were able to persuade him to drop it in favor of hastily written — and passed — legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, all sides declared open season on “fixing” it as the legislative year progressed. More than a couple dozen bills were launched, some trying to tighten the language of the CCPA to favor consumers, more trying to loosen the law to favor businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I expected some pushing and shoving, but I didn’t expect this wholesale assault to try to like wipe it out,” Mactaggart said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the measures failed to pass, thanks in large part to state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee in Sacramento. After the smoke cleared, what was left of the CCPA was still the strongest law of its kind in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be because “it’s the only privacy act in the country,” said Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she appreciates that Mactaggart now wants to make the law even tougher, although she hasn’t had the chance to comprehensively review the fine print.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such a new area. There are probably going to be a lot of different interpretations to it,” Jackson said.[aside label=\"Related stories\" tag=\"data-privacy\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a number of other data privacy advocates like Mary Stone Ross with the \u003ca href=\"https://epic.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Privacy Information Center\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., are concerned about the fine print. Ross co-authored the earlier initiative, but says the new one includes giveaways to business interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For example, there’s this definition of ‘de-identified information,’ ” she said. “It’s actually a really big deal because by definition, de-identified information is not personal information, and so if that definition is weakened, then it weakens the scope of the entire law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sure enough, in this new initiative is a weakened definition of de-identified,” Ross added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other areas of the fine print, the Act raises the threshold for when the rules apply: only companies that buy, sell or share the personal information of more than 100,000 consumers or households need comply. The current standard kicks in for 50,000 consumers or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet more fine print: A business is exempt from disclosing information in response to rights requests if it requires disclosing “trade secrets.” The definition of a trade secret is very broad and could create a significant hurdle for prosecutors, regulators, or consumers trying to exercise their rights under CCPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard for data privacy advocates to ignore these provisions, even amid other language that tightens other elements of CCPA in favor of consumers. Last October, 11 privacy groups wrote an \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/files/2019/10/29/2019-10-23_-_privacy_coalition_comments_on_cprea.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open letter\u003c/a> to Mactaggart, urging 45 ways to strengthen the language of his new initiative. Only seven of their suggestions were incorporated into the final version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are steps forward. There are steps back. 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