California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is running for Governor of California in 2018. As previously reported on Etopia News,
he has not yet taken a position on AB 1681, a bill by California Assemblymember
Jim Cooper that would prohibit the seemingly-unbreakable encryption enabled by
iOS8 and Android 6.0 for smartphones.
He also
hasn’t taken a position on the use of the powerful new CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing
technology when it comes to using it to edit human embryos, as was just
approved by the UK’s Human Fertilization & Embryology Authority (HFEA), for
an experiment being conducted at the Francis Crick Institute, by Dr. Kathy
Niakan and her team, to investigate early embryonic development.
In an
e-mail sent today to Etopia News, Rhys Williams, his Chief of Staff, wrote:
“California’s
Lt. Governor has not yet reviewed the UK’s HFEA decision. “
The
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, according to Kevin McCormack, its
Sr. Director Public Communications & Patient Advocate Outreach, is today putting
on a workshop by its Standards Working Group “that looks at that precise
question.”
You can join
this workshop’s audio conference at:
800-230-1951. Use the
confirmation number 385423. The workshop
is scheduled to continue until 4:00 pm, PST today.
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