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…
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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