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The “Halloween” star playfully ribbed the TV and Broadway actor over one award she doesn’t yet have.
San Diego is joining the ranks of cities clamping down on surveillance technology. The San Diego Union-Tribunereports the City Council has given a final greenlight to an ordinance requiring approval for tech that can identify and track individuals, such as body and streetlight cameras. Municipal government workers will have to outline the intended uses of a surveillance system, while a new privacy advisory board and residents will be asked for input. Councillors will also conduct yearly reviews of in-use systems.
The city has a year-long grace period to both form the advisory board and give departments a chance to examine their surveillance tech inventories. Organizations that already use these systems will need authorization to continue use. An exception will allow police on federal task forces to use surveillance, however. San Diego Police Department Chief David Nisleit requested the carve-out over concerns that local officers couldn’t participate in federal operations that bar disclosure of surveillance tech.
The council first approved the ordinance in November 2020. The late approval comes after multiple employee groups exercised their right to review the new rules. That process alone took about 18 months, The Union-Tribune said.
San Diego is relatively late to such regulations. San Francisco and other cities have banned facial recognition, for instance. Even so, its approval might increase pressure on other local governments to either restrict surveillance hardware or offer more transparency regarding their monitoring tools.
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Google searches with quotes just became much more useful if you’re looking for the exact place words appear on a page. The internet giant has updated quote-based searches with page snippets that show exactly where you’ll find the text you’re looking for. You might not have to scroll through a giant document just to find the right phrase.
There are limitations. Searches with quotes might turn up results that aren’t visible (such as meta description tags) or only show up in web addresses and title links. You might not see all of the mentions in a snippet if they’re too far apart. You’ll “generally” only see bolded mentions on desktop, and you won’t see the bolding at all for specialized searches and results (such as image searches and video boxes). You may have to use your browser’s on-page search feature to jump to the relevant keywords.
The company characterized the change as a response to feedback. It hesitated to make snippets for these searches in the past, as documents didn’t always produce readable descriptions. This is an acknowledgment that people using quotes to search are sometimes “power users” more interested in pinpointing words than reading site descriptions.
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