With great sadness, we mourn the passing of Wilfred “Bill” Coggins, who founded what would become Kaiser Permanente’s Watts Counseling and Learning Center in California. Coggins celebrated his 98th birthday in February 2025. Coggins developed the “Watts Project” to address community drivers of inequitable health outcomes and other social challenges after being hired in the … Read more
Members and supporters of Hungary’s LGBTQ+ community march through Budapest, amid an increasingly hostile environment for sexual minorities led by the country’s right-wing government, on Saturday, July 23, 2022. ANNA SZILAGYI / AP Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday, March 18, passed a law banning Pride events and allowing authorities to use facial recognition software to identify … Read more
Molly Kelley was stunned to discover in June that someone she knew had used widely available “nudification” technology to create highly realistic and sexually explicit videos and images of her, using family photos that were posted on social media. “My initial shock turned to horror when I learned that the same person targeted about 80, … Read more
UK Government Delays AI Bill Until Summer The UK government has postponed the release of its AI Bill until at least the summer, following the example set by the EU AI Act, which took effect last year. This legislation was expected to introduce new regulations for artificial intelligence, including a requirement for companies to submit … Read more
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and a group of state lawmakers are pushing a 10-bill legislative package designed to improve disaster preparedness and help protect wildfire survivors. The bills intended focus are on consumer protection, climate resiliency and market strength. Among the proposals are a statewide grant program to assist with wildfire hardening, protections for … Read more
