james, mary ryan, donna, emily levy, pamela smith. jennifer haggy, don curry, david schmidt, ronen k. i can't pronounce the last name. >> good afternoon. my name is catherine baits. i'm a former project manager at a tech company and a resident of the cast co. ten years ago as an intern, i was tasked with researching improvements we could make to the election system, and in the last ten years, not a lot has changed. this is an incredible opportunity. i really urge you to support fully funding the 40s million to -- $4 million to get this going. >> thank you. come on up. >> thank you. i'm sure you're getting hungry and tired. my name is carly. i'm from the central sunset district, and i'm a volunteer with the california clean money campaign. i think it's a profound and fundamental responsibility of every city, county, state, and our national governmental bodies to make sure that every vote cast is accurately counted. that's at risk because of new technologies, and the response is new technologies. but new means cutting edge means i don't

i'm emily levy, the director of communications for americans united for democracy, integrity, and transparency in elections. we're a national group doing work on trying to make elections more transparent, have more integrity and with as much public oversight as pop. i'm heartenedded by the support that i hear from so many people today for open source in san francisco. i'm thrilled of that the city that i grew up in looking at taking the lead on this issue, and i want to support the idea of fully allocating the funds for this project. thank you very much. >> great. thank you. next speaker. >> i'm jennifer haggy, a volunteer with the california clean money campaign. i urge you to support full funding of $4 million for the open source paper ballot voting systems. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is chris hamilton, i'm a volunteer with the california clean money campaign. over here this morning from the are you februarthe -- republic . >> i'm a member of the open source voting advisory committee to the elections commissions. i urge you to appropriate the $4 million we asked the elect

emily: that was maurice levy, chairman of the supervisory board at the groupie, publicist group speakinge. iphone users sued google claiming they unlawfully collected personal data by bypassing the default privacy setting. google denies the claim. and sticking with google, still ahead, the company was hit hard on "60 minutes" last weekend. charges of there a legal tactics getting the primetime tv treatment. how the u.s. government is not responding to the so-called monopoly next. this is bloomberg. ♪ \ emily: a story we are watching, intel has disclosed another way to attack computers related to their chip security flaws. the company said there is no evidence of it having been used to hack computers and a fix is in place. google is getting a lot of heat after a "60 minutes" segment claiming the search engine wields a destructive a monopoly. the segment highlighted how critics and rivals have had enough of the company's dominance. here is part of the discussion. >> ultimately, that manifested itself in you expecting that those top links are the best from around the world. the best that th

moscow correspondent emily sure one has been talking with young russians from both sides of the political fence. meet twenty year old daniel levy. and nineteen year old son. for as long as they can remember bloody near putin has been russia's leader but their views on him placed these two members of the so-called putin generation in different worlds sophia is a member of seats a pro kremlin youth group that acts as a hub for young artists designers and journalists as long as they support putin you know for my whole life he has been in charge and his actions are usually very wise . in the couple. want that he. disagrees the economic student complains about stagnation and is concerned about restrictions on democratic freedoms in russia since he was sixteen he's been campaigning for the opposition and encouraging his friends to protest he was just two years old when putin was elected but says he's ready for change. yes there were missed the if we had a person as president in putin's place who doesn't like corruption who doesn't use lies and violence like he does then everything would be much better. views are on common for the put

levy, a legend in the ad industry, speaks to bloomberg from paris. what advice does he have for mark zuckerberg? this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ emilye back to the best of "bloomberg technology." i'm emily chang. in the wake of brexit and president trump's complicated relationship, firms are expanding their presence in paris. google and facebook are making a large investments in france. on monday, caroline hyde previewed what would be a big week for paris and tech. ♪ caroline: french president emmanuel macron is looking to become the goto head of state for global tech. this week, he spoke to heads of notable firms at the presidential palace. the meetings will be followed by the visa technology summit that could signal a big shift for the country. for years, the french tech scene has operated in the shadow of the world, but he is capitalizing on a void left by president trump's complicated relationship with global tech. france has had only three startups achieve unicorn status, compared to 22 in the u.k., and 105 in the united rates. ♪ but recently, the paris tech industry is reinventing itself. there were a record 743 tech 45%s in 2

emily: silicon valley could look to seattle for a playbook on taxing big tech. cityngton state's largest leviedlion annual tax on big companies to help offset its homeless problem. san francisco, mountain view, east palo alto, considering similar taxes on large local employers to solve growing inequality and overcrowding they blame on the same tech industry that transformed them into boom towns. bloomberg tech's eric newcomer joins us with more details. there are different versions. a lot of them -- take mountain view. or $300 per$250 employee that companies would pay to the city. mountain view wants to raise something like $10 million. you could imagine about half of that would probably come from google, their largest employer. emily: why now? how will they use the money? eric: why now is what is super interesting here. the trunk tax cuts took effect so these -- trump tax cuts took effect, so the cities are watching companies get back up a lot of money from the federal government -- get back a lot of money from the federal government, so i think that's one. these are liberal cities with endemi

emily: how could punishing zte in this way lead to potential backlash against the u.s. administration? >> obviously the great concern is that china could levy of u.s.problem on a lot companies offering in china. the big issue overall is it is not a level playing field. chinese companies have been able to come up the most part, invest broad. although the u.s. is putting greater clip dance on that. u.s. companies have historically had many issues operating in china. there is the requirement that they have to sometimes transfer their technology. so far, the impact on zte is that it has been mostly crippled, it has lost $3 billion and still having operating expenses and tens of thousands of employees that are idle but they are hopeful that if and when this concession comes through, they can immediately put those workers back into action. emily: how do you expect -- this is obviously a very unpredictable u.s. administration. how do you expect this to involve -- to evolve over the next it days and weeks. will it develop into a full-blown trade for? >> you gave me a nice out there. one way to track that is to see what goes on but the north korean