Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday January 21st, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, the GDPR finds begin, but the EU's so-called link tax might be in trouble.

Uber wants self-driving scooters, and why email is back, baby.

Hint it never left.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

So in what I believe is the first action of the new regulatory regime, CNIL, the French Data Protection

Watchdog, has find Google 50 million euro under GDPR for failing to provide transparent easily

accessible info in its data collection policies. Specifically the

regulators said that Google has run a foul of GDPR when users set up a new

Android phone and follow Android's specific onboarding process.

Quoting from Tech Crunch, to nonprofit org process. Andrejour-Dunette had officially filed a complaint back in May of 2018.

NOYB

originally filed a complaint against Google and Facebook,

so let's see what happens to Facebook next.

Under the GDPR, complaints are transferred to local data protection watchdogs."

End quote, which explains why this landed first with the French Data Protection Watchdog.

Google has released a statement saying, quote,

people expect high standards of transparency and control from us. We're deeply committed to meeting those

expectations and the consent requirements of the GDPR. We're studying the

decision to determine our next steps." So if you're thinking 50 million euros,

that's a drop in the bucket for Google,

you're probably right.

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