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Harris: Open Justice data showed African Americans were 25% of in-custody deaths
“With open justice, we found African Americans are six percent of California's population, and we're almost 25% of in custody deaths.”
Harris: U.S. must pass comprehensive immigration reform and fix H-1B visas
“I strongly believe we have to not vilify this community, and we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform. We need to deal with H-I-B visas.”
Harris: Government must resist fear-driven reflexive regulation of new tech
“I understand that government sometimes, when presented with something that is new and is, is not known, can respond in a way with fear and wants to just regulate and shut it down. And knowing that as a public servant, I always wanted to cause us to pause and n…”
Harris: Co-sponsoring federal legislation to criminalize cyber exploitation
“With industry, we came up with policies, and right now I'm sponsoring, co-sponsoring legislation to make cyber exploitation a crime, a federal crime because we just need to deal with it.”
Harris: Prevention is more efficient than reactive enforcement
“You want to deal with an epidemic, be it health or crime, smartest, most effective and efficient way to deal with it is prevention first. If we're dealing with it in the emergency room or the prison system, far too late and much too expensive. It is not effici…”
Harris: Government lacks the skill set and culture to analyze data
“Government does not have the skill set, the culture, or the bandwidth to necessarily analyze this data.”
Harris: Cybersecurity policy must prioritize post-attack resilience
“After the attack has happened, there should be equal weight in terms of public policy given to how can we regroup as quickly as possible.”
Harris: California AG office prosecuted the first cyber exploitation case
“So I actually, through my office, through the AG's office, prosecuted the first case, the Bollert case.”
Harris: Negotiating mobile privacy standards with tech platforms avoided regulation
“Over the course of six months, we worked out, I think, an all too rare example of government and industry coming together to solve a problem. Short of regulation or litigation or legislation. And what we did is we came up with an understanding that would, that…”