Friday, May 25, 2018 - Musk Rages and Alexa Listens In

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🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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European Union privacy restrictions kick in, Tesla settles a suit, Alexa is listening, Essential becomes a misnomer, and San Francisco brakes scooters. Tweets: @bxchen, @ktbenner, @geoffreyfowler, @zeynep, @cathyyoung63, @mccanner Links:Publications block EU readers (New York Times)Google late to update advertisers and ad-tech networks on GDPR changes (Digiday)Tesla settles on auto-pilot (Reuters)Alexa forwards private conversation by couple (KIRO)Amazon’s statement on Alexa recording and forwarding (Recode)Piles of bike-sharing cycles (Atlantic)Long Reads:Instagram has transformed high-school basketball players into starsAn oral history of the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit that’s now 20 years oldHow Facebook monitors for abuse and misuseIn depth on Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne BoleynCredits: Special Guest-Host: Glenn Fleishman Produced by @glennf, @brianmcc, and the @techmeme editors Music by @jpschwinghamer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, May 25, 2018. Today, European Union privacy restrictions kick in.
0:16.0	Tesla settles a suit while Musk rages.
0:19.0	Alexa is forwarding your private conversations.
0:22.0	Andy Rubin's essential is no longer essential, and San Francisco puts a break on scooters.
0:28.0	I'm Glenn Fleischman in for Brian McCullough, who's on vacation, and here's what happened in tech news today.
0:34.0	Happy GDPR day everyone.
0:39.0	May 25th is the day that the general data protection regulation or GDPR goes into effect in the European Union.
0:46.3	If you wondered why you've received dozens, perhaps thousands of emails explaining new or clarified privacy policies, or are being asked to opt in a mailing
0:54.1	lists that you thought you'd already opted into before and probably some you hadn't
0:57.8	it's the GDPR. The GDPR is a comprehensive set of rules about data protection and privacy that, among other things, require affirmative and specific consent by an individual to have their data collected, processed, and stored. The scope is very broad. The European Commission says
1:14.6	personal data is any information relating to an individual, whether it relates to
1:19.1	his or her private, professional, or public life, it can be anything from a name, a home address, a photo, an email address,
1:26.7	bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information, or a computer's internet protocol address.
1:34.9	It also requires organizations to provide all information they possess on an individual
1:39.1	on request and with some provisos to delete all that information when asked to.
1:44.0	While it only covers residents of the EU and the European economic area,
1:48.5	the EU considers any digital interaction with one of those residents
1:52.0	by a party anywhere in the world to fall
1:54.0	under the GDPR's purview.
1:56.6	Fines for violating the rules are significant.
1:58.9	Up to 4% of worldwide revenue or 20 million euros, whichever is greater, for the most severe offenses,
2:05.9	and the EU plans to attempt to enforce them through reciprocal agreements with other countries
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