| San Francisco's city government takes action on electric scooters, Facebook prepares for Europe's big privacy push and YouTube responds to creator concerns. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for April 18, 2018. 1. Electric scooter permits will be required in San Francisco This will allow SF agencies to take action against scooters from companies that don't have a permit from the city. Supervisor Aaron Peskin said the proposed permitting scheme is similar to the one San Francisco already has in place around stationless bike-sharing. "This is a basic permitting scheme to allow the professional staff at SFMTA to permit these with sensible, regulatory frameworks and to be able to confiscate unpermitted vehicles or devices," Peskin said. 
2. A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook's new GDPR privacy changes The new privacy change — which European users will have to consent to — will appear starting this week, though you'll be able to dismiss it until May 25. 3. CA also used 'sex compass' and other quiz apps for sucking Facebook data, says former employee Brittney Kaiser, a former employee at Cambridge Analytica, has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the firm's hands — though she also said, "I do not know the specifics of these surveys or how the data was acquired or processed." 4. Thanks to today's outage, the goobers at the IRS are giving people another day to file their taxes That's right, readers: If you're paying taxes in the United States, you've got a one-day extension. 5. YouTube promises expansion of sponsorships, other monetization tools for creators The changes are meant to address creators' complaints over YouTube's new advertising policies announced earlier this year. Those policies set a higher bar for monetization, after a series of controversies over video content from top creators. 6. Google Chrome now mutes annoying videos that autoplay with sound Autoplay will only be allowed when the media itself doesn't include sound, or when the user has indicated that they are interested in it. 7. Basis, a year-old startup that's building a price-stable cryptocurrency, just raised $133M from top investors The company's big idea is to develop a new token that people will actually use, instead of just using to speculate. Imagine that: Actually spending cryptocurrency. | 
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