Whether because of occupation, age or gender, there are untold numbers of Facebook users who have distrusted the social network to protect their privacy long before the Cambridge Analytica controversy surfaced.And even though they may not be joining the campaign to #DeleteFacebook and remove their data completely, several Facebook members interviewed for this story say they are taking the scandal seriously.

Chinese officials on Friday announced a list of U.S. imports they will target if their tariff dispute with President Trump erupts into a trade war. It’s a list that places California on the front line.China’s Ministry of Commerce singled out 128 products imported from the United States, worth about $3 billion annually, that could face higher tariffs if the two countries don’t defuse rising tensions.

Placing a big, unorthodox bet on their celebrity CEO, Tesla shareholders on Wednesday approved a pay package for Elon Musk that could net him more than $55 billion over the next decade — or, possibly, nothing at all.The package ties Musk’s entire compensation to meeting a series of growth targets — both for the Palo Alto electric auto maker’s revenue and stock price — that many analysts consider outlandish.

What Facebook thinks it knows about you, and how it shares that data Browse through a setting called “your ad preferences” on Facebook, and you’ll see what the social media giant thinks it can predict about you for advertisers. It may go a little like this: Based on that San Francisco Marathon ad you once clicked on, combined with the fact that you used to live in Boston, Facebook thinks that perhaps you’ll be interested in a boot camp in Newton, Mass.

After days of silence, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally responded to revelations that a third party misused millions of users’ personal data.News that that Cambridge Analytica, a political firm connected to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, gained access to the data hoard off a whirlwind of criticism toward the company for allegedly failing to safeguard users’ privacy.

As Facebook grapples with the misuse of some 50 million users’ data — a pilferage that rocked American democracy, created turmoil in the social network’s executive ranks and cost investors almost $50 billion — it’s worth asking how the Menlo Park company got into this mess.The answer lies in what it calls Facebook Platform, the online interfaces through which businesses access user data and publish links and other material to the social network.

Exclusive: Tempe police chief says early probe shows no fault by Uber Pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags, a woman abruptly walked from a center median into a lane of traffic and was struck by a self-driving Uber operating in autonomous mode. “The driver said it was like a flash, the person walked out in front of them,” said Sylvia Moir, police chief in Tempe, Ariz., the location for the first pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car.

Welcome to Tahoe. Here’s what can get you fined $1,000 Planning a ski getaway? If you stay in an Airbnb, VRBO or other vacation rental in South Lake Tahoe (El Dorado County) you need to know that you could get slapped with hefty penalties for such infractions as noise, late-night hot-tubbing, or parking on the street. The reason: Local residents are fed up with vacationers in their neighborhoods, saying that too often drunken revelers disturb their tranquility.

Editor’ s note: Here are three Bay Area startups worth watching this week.It’s always lunchtime at Eat Club.This Redwood City startup coordinates food deliveries for companies that offer free or discounted lunch as an employee perk. It is trending on startup database Crunchbase this week because it just expanded its services to New York City. It is now in three cities, the others being San Francisco and Los Angeles.

As the North Bay rebuilds from October’s deadly wildfires, many residents would like to see more power lines buried underground, where raging windstorms can’t touch them.But Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has a history of doing less of this work, year by year, than city officials and state regulators want. Instead, money earmarked for “undergrounding” power lines often gets diverted to other uses.