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WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President

Kamala Harris is potentially poised to become the Democratic

presidential nominee in the November election. Here are her

views and actions related to some key business topics.

TECH REGULATION

As California attorney general, Harris sued eBay ( EBAY ) in

2012, alleging anticompetitive hiring practices surrounding a

no-poaching agreement with Intuit that led to a nearly

$4 million settlement in 2014.

In 2015, she compelled startup Houzz to hire a chief privacy

officer after allegations that the home design app had recorded

sales calls without proper notification and consent.

One of her signature issues was curtailing the distribution

of pornography on social media, particularly "revenge porn," a

practice involving the posting of explicit photos without the

subject's consent. She took credit for a pressure campaign that

led to Facebook, Alphabet's Google, Microsoft ( MSFT )

and others taking measures to remove certain explicit

images.

"I cannot emphasize enough how leaders in technology have

stepped up," said Harris at a news conference then. "I'm not

suggesting any of them were happy to get a call from the AG

saying, 'Come in, we want to talk with you.' But they all did.

They did."

BIG TECH

As a candidate for California attorney general, Harris

reportedly assured potential donors that she was "a capitalist."

She has generally been seen as cozy with prominent tech

executives and investors, the local industry in her home Bay

Area. She attended the wedding of Sean Parker, an early Facebook

executive. Her brother-in-law, Tony West, is the chief legal

officer for Uber ( UBER ).

She also accepted donations from Reid Hoffman, a prominent

venture capitalist and co-founder of Linkedin, as well as

billionaire John Doerr and venture capitalist Ron Conway. Big

tech executives also supported her, including Sheryl Sandberg,

then chief operating officer of Facebook, and Marc Benioff, the

billionaire CEO of Salesforce ( CRM ).

CLIMATE AND ENERGY

Harris' climate and energy positions are similar to Biden's.

But throughout her career she has made clear that clean energy

and environmental justice are priorities.

When Biden announced Harris as his running mate in the 2020

race, he emphasized her tough stance against big oil when she

served in key roles in California, noting lawsuits she had

launched both as San Francisco's district attorney from 2004 to

2011 and then as the state's attorney general until January

2017, when she became a U.S. senator.

Last year, Harris made her debut at international climate

negotiations, announcing a $3 billion commitment to the Green

Climate Fund and making her first major international speech

focused on climate.

As vice president, Harris has also been involved in

Environmental Protection Agency policy rollouts that tackled

long-standing environmental justice issues, such as a

multibillion-dollar program to replace lead pipes and lead paint

around the country.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

As vice president, Harris has been particularly outspoken on

artificial intelligence. She warned against the "existential"

threat of AI and said it could "endanger the very existence of

humanity," in a November 2023 address.

In meeting with tech execs like Microsoft's ( MSFT ) Satya Nadella,

OpenAI's Sam Altman and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, Harris warned

that they have a "moral" obligation to guard against AI's

possible dangers.

She backed an AI executive order from Biden that seeks

stronger protections for consumers, singling out AI-generated

scam calls and the impacts of unlabeled AI-generated content.