Tuesday, May 29, 2018 - Uber Gets a Panic Button and Facebook Gets Paused

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🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Uber adds a panic button, Apple updates HomePod, the Chinese trade war is back on, Facebook gets a month-long timeout, another EU privacy regulation, and less-desirable dogs get better PR. Tweets from from @lcmoser, @heldavidson, @jimwaterson Links:Uber adds a panic button in its app (The Verge)Uber’s Exit From Southeast Asia Upsets Regulators and Drivers (New York Times)Apple’s HomePod Speaker Finally Gets Multi-Room Audio And Stereo Mode (Buzzfeed)Papua New Guinea To Shutdown Facebook (Post Courier)Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next (Vox)Bid to Block Trump's Deal on ZTE Would Have Support, Rubio Says (Bloomberg News)The Next Privacy Battle in Europe Is Over This New Law (New York Times)How The Internet Is Changing The Way Dogs Find Homes (Buzzfeed)Credits: 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 Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, May 29, 2018. Today, Uber adds a panic button, Apple updates Home Pod, the Chinese
0:17.9	Trade War is back on. Facebook gets a month-long time out in Papua New Guinea, a second European Data Protection
0:24.7	regulation gets delayed, and less desirable dogs get better PR. I'm Glenn Fleischman
0:30.9	in for Brian McCullough who's on vacation and here's what happened in tech news today.
0:36.0	Uber has added a panic button to the US version of its app,
0:42.0	but don't press it when you see the cost of a ride when surge pricing is on.
0:46.0	Rather, it's one of Uber's attempts to address past criticism about safety for both riders and drivers,
0:51.0	as the listing unicorn ship tries to write itself under the management
0:54.7	of Dara Hosroshahi who took over the role in August 2017 from founder Travis Kalonic.
1:00.3	This button which calls 911 previously appeared over two years ago for Uber's customers in India after an Uber driver raped a passenger.
1:08.0	He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, but the victim later sued Uber from mishandling her private medical information in yet another self-inflicted wound for the company.
1:17.0	In its first iteration, the verge notes that the 911 button appears as part of an easily reached safety center and simply places the call after a user
1:24.9	confirms it was intentional. But it's the next stage currently in testing that will be more helpful,
1:29.8	providing accurate location information to first responders.
1:33.4	The Verge says Uber is testing location sharing in a few cities, Denver, Colorado, Charleston,
1:38.0	South Carolina, Nashville, Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Naples, Florida. Cell phone location accuracy for emergency
1:44.9	calls can vary enormously as it relies on the telephone side of things, providing
1:49.2	smartphone-based in-application, which combines GPS, Wi-Fi positioning, and cellular base stations can be dramatically
1:55.5	more precise.
1:56.8	An Uber spokesman says a panic button for drivers will soon be added to make it easier for
2:00.6	them to summon help with a belligerent passenger.
2:03.2	Uber has received seemingly endless criticism in the last year and a half.
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