Plus RapidDeploy gains in Florida, DRUID app aims to measure cannabis impairment, Electriphi looks to cut public sector EV charging costs, a California city's employees get a self-driving shuttle and more...
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TOP NEWS

RoadBotics Adds Pavement Distress Identification to Software The Pittsburgh company is adding new features and more granular results to its software for analyzing pavement damage, with plans to move into larger cities and smaller counties in the future.

Next-Generation 911 Spreads to Local Departments in Florida Local 911 departments tend to use technology that, while old, is comfortable and familiar. But a trio of Florida counties seems to represent part of an emerging movement toward next-generation 911 and the cloud.

For Potential Stoned Drivers, DRUID App Measures Impairment With cannabis legalization spreading, the Massachusetts-based company is billing its mobile, all-purpose impairment app as an answer to a growing need for a validated test to keep stoned drivers in check.

Electriphi Looks to Help Public Sector Cut EV Charging Costs The company has created software to help fleet managers, including school districts and municipal agencies, plan when and how to charge their electric vehicles, to make sure they hit their marks at the lowest price.

City Workers to Test Self-Driving Shuttles in California Municipal employees in Fremont, Calif., can now hop on a self-driving shuttle to get from a train station to city offices. The company running the service, Pony.ai, just got a huge cash infusion from Toyota.

Hack Exposes Government Clients of Facial Recognition Firm Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that scrapes images from social media, has sold access to this information to companies and branches of law enforcement. That client list numbering over 2,900 was just hacked.

MARKET SPOTLIGHT

Data Suggests Many Counties Lag on Website Encryption A study from cybersecurity firm McAfee of county websites in 13 states found that smaller jurisdictions were generally less likely to encrypt their websites — a standard security measure — than larger ones.

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WHAT WE'RE READING (OR WATCHING)

Apple Disables Clearview AI's App for Violating Terms of Use (Buzzfeed)

Waldo Jaquith to Michigan Legislators: “No Individual Software Project Should Cost More Than $10 Million, No Single Procurement Should Be For More Than $2 Million.” (Michigan Senate) (Note: Go to the 40-minute mark for Jaquith's testimony)

ACLU Sues ICE for Removing "Release" Option from Detention Algorithm (The Intercept)

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