GDPR Greater Than EULA
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| GDPR > EULA | |
| Number | 3243 |
| Broadcast Date | MARCH 20, 2018 |
| Episode Length | 32:30 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane |
| Guests | Patrick Beja |
Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR goes into effect May 25th. These new rules will dictate what user data can be held, where it can be held, what should be deleted, and sold. How will these changes effect the way tech companies will approach the same issues in areas outside the EU and what will be the net benefit for users?
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Quick Hits
- Bloomberg reports that the US FTC will send Facebook a letter asking questions regarding how it handled Global Science Research's violation of terms when it handed over user data it had gathered to a third party without authorization. A consent decree from 2011 requires Facebook to get user consent for certain changes to privacy settings.
- IBM announced a Deep Learning as a Service program. Developers can train neural networks using frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch and Caffe and only pay for the GPU time they use. The DLaaS as it's shortened, runs on IBM's Watson platform.
- Nimbus Data, of Irvine, California has introduced the ExaDrive SSD, which can store 100 TB. The Nimbus is smaller and more power efficient. Nimbus says a standard rack in a data center could hold more than 100 petabytes worth of ExaDrives. The drives will cost thousands of dollars when they become available this summer.
Top Stories
- The New York Times reports Facebook chief information security officer Alex Stamos is leaving the company in August, citing sources, and that internal disagreements over how the social network should deal with its role in spreading false and misleading information. In response to the story, Stamos tweeted that his role at the company did change, but that he was still working at Facebook.
- After viewing video recorded by Uber's self-driving car of the fatal collision it was involved in Monday, Tempe police chief Slyvia Moir told the San Francisco Chronicle, "I suspect preliminary it appears that the Uber (car) would likely not be at fault in this accident.” Moir said, “it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway." Meanwhile, Toyota said Tuesday that it too will pause testing of its autonomous vehicles on public roads.
- IBM is launching Watson Assistant for companies that want to build virtual assistants for their products. Unlike Amazon Voice Services or Google Assistant, Watson is a white label product, meaning clients can brand it how they want, including the wake word, and train it on their own datasets. Watson instances are all siloed too, meaning the data isn't pooled like it is by Google and Amazon. Harman is using Watson to build a voice assistant for a Maserati concept car and the Pepper robot at Munich airport uses Watson as well.
- Google announced a new program to fight misinformation called the Google News Initiative, similar to what the company already offers in Europe through the Digital News Initiative. Highlights include striving for accurate journalism particularly during breaking news events; helping news sites continue to grow from a business perspective; and creating new tools to help journalists do their jobs. Google pledges to invest $300 million toward the effort over the next three years.
- Yesterday, Techcrunch reported that Match, the parent company of Tinder and Match.com, was suing rival dating app Bumble for patent infringement and misuse of intellectual property. Match alleged that Bumble “copied Tinder’s world-changing, card-swipe-based, mutual opt-in premise” and its patent that filed in 2013 but just granted a few months ago. Bumble responded today in a blog post that alleges Match made multiple attempts to buy Bumble, as well as launched a copycat of Bumble's “ladies first” feature. In the letter, Bumble says to Match “we swipe left on your attempted scare tactics, and on these endless games. We swipe left on your assumption that a baseless lawsuit would intimidate us.”
Discussion
- Europe's New Privacy Law Will Change the Web, and More
- EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): A cheat sheet
Pick of the Day
- Nate Lanxon tells us what's going on across the pond in Tech's Message-- but not THIS week and it involves Geisha tech...
- Submitted by Nate Lanxon
Mailbag
- For the NY guy you had on talking Cambridge, he was great. Keep in mind the FAA does ground fleets sometimes, but yes an accident with a pilot probable cause we're mostly out flying. It wasn't all that long ago the 787 got parked until the battery issue was resolved, industry swapped out to dumber batteries if they wanted to keep flying. RJ operators were almost parked until the flap issue got resolved (scary). Decades ago whole fleets got parked on rudder and engine issues. We just don't have so much money tied up in autonomous cars that finding an impractical fix to tide us over from the FAA restriction makes economic sense...yet.
Loved hearing you guys - Sent by Joe the Pilot
- For the NY guy you had on talking Cambridge, he was great. Keep in mind the FAA does ground fleets sometimes, but yes an accident with a pilot probable cause we're mostly out flying. It wasn't all that long ago the 787 got parked until the battery issue was resolved, industry swapped out to dumber batteries if they wanted to keep flying. RJ operators were almost parked until the flap issue got resolved (scary). Decades ago whole fleets got parked on rudder and engine issues. We just don't have so much money tied up in autonomous cars that finding an impractical fix to tide us over from the FAA restriction makes economic sense...yet.
- Hey Tom,
On yesterday's podcast you very confidently stated that fatal traffic accidents "have happened less often with an autonomous car, that it has with a manual cars."
What data is this based on? In my brief Googles, I couldn't find any indication that autonomous cars have logged nearly enough miles to be able to make a comparison like that.
Now that the first robot murdered a human, I'd like to make a case for the human driver. The IIHS reports only 1.16 deaths per 100,000,000 vehicle miles traveled (http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalityfacts/state-by-state-overview). Obviously anything > 0 is bad, but at 1 death per 86.2 million miles, I think the skills of human drivers are being unfairly minimized.
Not only that as you can see, pedestrian and cyclist deaths make up only 18% of that number, so 1 death per 478.9k miles. If my math is correct.
Show me the facts!
PS. Tone is difficult in email. this is meant to be about 75% sincere. - Sent by Ryan
- Hey Tom,
- Hi Tom, Sarah, Roger, and fantastic DTNS team,
I just wanted to let you know that I am having to reduce my monthly pledge from $30/month to $5/month starting next month. Unfortunately, I lost my job last week and I am adjusting accordingly to make sure the family is taken care of at home.
Speaking of family, I want to throw out a request to my fellow DTNS contributors: Please consider adding a $1/month more to your current pledge to help the show not loose the balance of my monthly contribution. The show is great and I feel bad that I can’t keep up my current level for the short term. Once I’m back up and running, I’ll be increasing my contribution.
Thanks,
P.S. - If anyone needs a tech oriented general manager in the Bay Area...drop me a line! - Sent by Brent aka Sgt. Fudd in the Slack channel
- Hi Tom, Sarah, Roger, and fantastic DTNS team,
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