Sunday, August 12, 2018

Not sure I’d go that far.
Why I Love the GDPR: 10 Reasons
I have a confession to make, one that is difficult to fess up to on the US side of the pond: I love the GDPR.
There, I said it. . .
In the United States, a common refrain about GDPR is that it is unreasonable, unworkable, an insane piece of legislation that doesn’t understand how the Internet works, and a dinosaur romping around in the Digital Age.
But the GDPR isn’t designed to be followed as precisely as one would build a rocket ship. It’s an aspirational law. Although perfect compliance isn’t likely, the practical goal of the GDPR is for organizations to try hard, to get as much of the way there as possible.
The GDPR is the most profound privacy law of our generation. Of course, it’s not perfect, but it has more packed into it than any other privacy law I’ve seen.




Electric scooters are going to be a tough sell…
Los Angeles residents burning, vandalizing shared electric scooters: report
Electric scooter-sharing programs are becoming increasingly common in cities across the United States, but some Los Angeles residents have become frustrated with the motorized scooter and are fighting back against them – literally – according to the Los Angeles Times.
Videos of people kicking, throwing and burying the scooters at sea have popped up across social media, the L.A. Times reported. An Instagram account titled "Bird Graveyard" – a reference to the scooter company Bird – has acquired more than 25,000 followers and features images and videos of scooters that have been have been lit on fire, tossed into canals, smeared with feces and broken into pieces.


(Related) Really tough.
A 183-year-old law created for horse-drawn carriages has frustrated Silicon Valley's buzziest startups
… Electric scooters are illegal on public UK streets and pavements, meaning Bird and its rivals would be flouting the law if they tried to launch in Britain. And that's partly thanks to a 183-year-old act originally designed to stop nuisance behaviour from horse-drawn carriage drivers, and those driving cattle.
The UK government categorises electric scooters as "carriages," which are not permitted on pavements under the 1835 Highways Act.
… And what about electric scooters on roads?
That's still (mostly) illegal, because the government requires scooter owners to register their vehicles with the DVLA, the UK's driving authority. And in order to pass the DVLA's strict requirements, a scooter would need to have three wheels (most operate with two), and be fitted with brakes and lights. That rules out most popular types of scooter.


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