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■ The New York Times: “GDPR … Makes Europe World’s Leading Tech Watchdog.”
■ Tech companies are scrambling.
■ Facebook’s newly released political-advertising transparency tools reveal President Trump’s campaign has run 4,400 ads on Facebook this month alone. (Hat-tip to CNN’s informative Reliable Sources email newsletter.)
■ Amazon’s Alexa is in trouble for recording a conversation between a married couple without their permission or awareness and sending that recording to a random person on their contacts list.
Rape and other charges. Developing coverage: Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer says he will plead
■ Accusations against Morgan Freeman have cost him his advertising gigs with Visa and Vancouver Transit.
‘Some sneaky game.’ Opponents of plans to build a police and fire academy on Chicago’s West Side have gone to court to block a hastily scheduled City Council vote on the matter at 2:15 p.m. today—on the threshold of a holiday weekend.
■ From the Trib: Five things to know about the academy plan—and the controversy surrounding it.
■ You can watch the proceedings—if they happen—live on the web here.
■ On the West Side last night, neighbors literally ran from one shooting to the next.
■ Columnist Eric Zorn says a state representative who resigned from her job with the Cook County sheriff’s office in a battle against House Speaker Michael Madigan didn’t act courageously: “Quitting at the suggestion or perception of a threat that you might be fired isn’t courage.”
And by the way, my weapons?
They’re enormous, very large!
I hope you’ll never see them
But be warned — I’m still in charge.
— The Trib’s Mary Schmich sets Trump’s breakup with Kim Jong Un to verse.
■ Her colleague Rex Huppke tries to decipher “garbled presidential tweet farts.”
■ A dramatic drop in Lake Michigan E. coli bacteria levels seems to be one benefit of the quagga mussel invasion.
■ Humans, though: Not so helpful.
■ McDonald’s shareholders have rejected a first step toward banning plastic straws.
■ At McCormick Place last night, someone stole $18,000 worth of candy.
Plugged in. The Trib reports the company that bought the old Mitsubishi auto factory in Normal, Ill., has landed a $200 million loan to start building electric cars there.
■ Even under the coal-friendly Trump administration, the EPA has quietly settled a deal that the Trib’s Michael Hawthorne reports shows how coal-fueled electricity “has largely disappeared from the Chicago area.”
■ The Sun-Times guide to Chicago-area summer festivals.
■ The Trib’s guide to summer theater in Chicago.
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