| Europe's new privacy regulations kick in, Essential may be up for sale and scooters may temporarily disappear from San Francisco startups. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for May 25, 2018. (Also, sorry for the Daily Crunch's absence from your inbox over the past couple of days. Hopefully, all the issues have been sorted!) 1. Facebook, Google face first GDPR complaints over "forced consent" Europe's General Data Protection Regulation has taken effect, so longtime Facebook privacy critic Max Schrems has wasted no time in filing four complaints against Facebook, Facebook-owned Instagram, Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Google's Android. Schrems accuses the two companies of pursuing a strategy of "forced consent," while Facebook told us, "We have prepared for the past 18 months to ensure we meet the requirements of the GDPR." 
2. Andy Rubin's Essential is reportedly up for sale and has cancelled work on its next smartphone According to a report in Bloomberg, Essential has hired Credit Suisse Group AG to advise the company on potentially selling itself. 3. Lime, Bird and Spin have to temporarily remove scooters from SF The San Francisco MTA has officially made its permit application available for electric scooters to operate in the city as part of a one-year pilot program. So companies like Bird, Lime and Spin will need to at least temporarily remove their scooters from city sidewalks while their applications are being processed. 4. Jury finds Samsung owes Apple $539M in patent case stretching back to 2011 A patent case that began back in 2011 has reached a conclusion, with Samsung ordered to pay about $539 million to Apple over infringements in devices that are now long gone. 5. Twitter unveils new political ad guidelines set to go into effect this summer The policy aims to prevent foreign election interference by requiring organizations to self-identify and certify that they are based in the United States. 6. Eric Schmidt says Elon Musk is 'exactly wrong' about AI "He doesn't understand the benefits that this technology will provide to making every human being smarter," Schmidt said. 7. And the winner of Startup Battlefield Europe at VivaTech is… Wingly We've wrapped up our very first Startup Battlefield event at VivaTech, and the winner is a flight-sharing platform that connects pilots and passengers. | 
