GDPR Consent Debris

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GDPR Consent Debris
Number 3291
Broadcast Date MAY 25, 2018
Episode Length 31:10
Hosts Sarah Lane
Guests Shannon Morse

General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, the EU’s new data privacy rules start today. Already some EU users have been blocked from sites, access to social media platforms limited for others, and lawsuits against large tech firms in the process of being filed. We examine the laws impact, its affect on countries outside of the EU and how well large tech firm are complying with the new rules.

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Quick Hits

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now law. Several organizations have already made complaints about Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, arguing that users are being forced to give consent to the new rules or be locked out, even though the law prohibits forcing consent. A handful of publications including the LA Times and Chicago Tribune became unavailable to many readers in the EU, which has drawn criticism from the European Data and Protection Board.
A jury in the retrial in the case between Apple and Samsung to determine damages owed to Apple for Samsung infringing on Apple's intellectual properties has a verdict. Samsung must pay $538M to cover five design and utility patents. Apple was originally awarded $1B, but the case has been tied up in various courts, including the Supreme Court, for six years.
The New York Times and Reuters report The Trump Administration told Congress it reached an agreement with ZTE, which currently has a 7-year ban against US companies supplying parts to the company. ZTE reportedly will pay a penalty, shuffle its management, and hire American compliance officers. In return, the U.S. would drop the current ban. Trump has called the ZTE negotiations part of broader talks to address alleged Chinese trade abuses.

Top Stories

Tesla settled a class action lawsuit Thursday with buyers of its Model S and Model X cars who alleged Tesla's assisted-driving Autopilot system was “essentially unusable and demonstrably dangerous.” Tesla agreed to compensate car owners who purchased the 2.0 version of Autopilot and had to wait longer than expected for the driving features to become active. Class members, who paid an extra $5,000 to get the Autopilot upgrade between 2016 and 2017, will receive between $20 and $280 in compensation. Tesla has agreed to place more than $5 million into a settlement fund, which will also cover attorney costs and other fees.
Sources tell Bloomberg Essential Products Inc, co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, wants to sell itself and had stopped development on Essential smartphones. The sale could include its patent portfolio, plus hardware products like a smart home device and a camera attachment for the Essentail phone. Essential’s engineering talent may be part of a deal as well. Last November, Rubin took a short leave of absence from Essential amid reports about workplace misconduct during his time at Google.
According to new sales data from Canalys, Google took the first spot in smart speaker sales in Q1 2018, beating Amazon for the first time. Google shipped 3.2 million Google Home and Home Mini devices in the quarter, compared to 2.5 million Echo devices. Chinese manufacturers Alibaba and Xiaomi took 3rd and 4th place, both beating Apple's HomePod sales.
At the Viva Technology industry conference in Paris, Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist for Facebook, said the company is designing energy-efficient computer-chips to analyze and filter live video content saying current systems take too much energy. He added “Facebook has worked on hardware before: It makes its own server design, motherboards, its own communications chips for data centers, so this is not completely new for Facebook.”
Valve says Apple denied approval of its Steam Link app for iOS —which lets users stream PC games from a computer on the same home network. Apple initially approved the app on May 7th, but revoked it two days later, citing business conflicts with app guidelines. Valve says it appealed that decision because "the Steam Link app simply functions as a LAN-based remote desktop similar to numerous remote desktop applications already available on the App Store." The app has been available on Android since May 17.

Discussion

Mailbag

Hi Sarah, Tom and Roger. Please settle an argument I’m having with my wife. What the heck is that statue / action figure in the background of Sarah’s studio.

P.S. love the show
Sent by Darren from Kamloops BC


Regarding Amazon's partnerships with police departments. Sarah made an off-hand comment that Amazon probably wasn't going to meld together its recently acquired network of Ring cameras with whatever Rekognition turns into. It made me remember another story that popped up about a month ago, and now in conjunction with the news about facial recognition, leads to some interesting hypothesizing about the possibilities for identifying criminal suspects.

(article from may 1: Orlando City Commissioners approved a partnership between the Orlando Police Department and Ring video doorbell security systems to fight crime.)
Sent by Mike

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Preceded by:
"All Aboard the Hellscape Train" 		GDPR Consent Debris
 Followed by:
"Coming Soon"
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