Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Today Facebook complies with GDPR, Amazon and Best Buy partner to sell TVs, the IRS suffered

from a terribly timed outage, YouTube tries to reassure creators and the great San Francisco

electric scooter debate. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

As was hinted at in CEO Mark Zuckerberg's recent congressional testimony,

Facebook yesterday announced that it was rolling out enhanced privacy

controls for all users globally in alignment with the European Union's new

GDPR law which will go into effect in May. There was some ambiguity around whether or not GDPR

compliance would be in effect for only European users, but even though the changes

will roll out to European Facebook accounts first,

they will indeed cover all Facebook users globally.

Soon, every Facebook user will be asked to review information about the type of ads Facebook will serve to them,

and whether or not they want partners like websites and apps to use data to serve them ads.

Also, you'll be asked whether you want to continue sharing things like

political preferences, religious views, and relationship information on your

profile. Facebook is also increasing protections for teen users, quote, even where the law doesn't require

this, will ask every teen if they want to see ads based on data from partners and whether

they want to include personal information in their profiles.

Facebook said in a blog post announcing the new controls.

Lots of people were dubious about these new changes.

For example, Reuters pointed out the new settings will not give

Facebook users the option to hit decline. Instead, quote, they will guide users to either

accept and continue or manage data setting,

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