I Tried to Warn Everyone in Early January About America’s Transportation Infrastructure Problems

GPDR Privacy Policy Addendum:

Our plugins and add-ons are compatible with GDPR. Below are the common questions related to GDPR.
Do your plugins track any data? We do not track any user data via our plugins. But if our plugin depends on any third party service, they might track user data. This can happen in following two ways:
1. Embedded Widgets
Some of our plugins have features to integrate embedded widgets as is, from third party services (like Facebook Like, Facebook Recommend, Twitter Tweet official buttons).
2. Third-party APIs/Connections
Our plugins send request to third party APIs via website-visitor’s web browser to fetch information (like social shares, social comment count). This request made by web browser may include IP address, which can then be seen by the third-party that it’s being requested from. This API request doesn’t include any personal data of the website user other than the IP address.
Where is the data collected by your plugins stored?
We do not store any data fetched by our plugins on our servers, neither we share that data with any third party. O
Do your plugins load any external scripts?
As mentioned before, our plugins run absolutely from your website and hence load the scripts too from your website with exception of third-party embedded widgets (like Facebook Like/Recommend official button, Twitter tweet official button, Facebook Comments) which require our plugin to load scripts from the servers of relevant service.

Remember this story?

I concluded that article with this statement:

We are now living the second half of the book Atlas Shrugged. Buckle up, the trajectory gets pretty ugly in the very last chapters if John Galt does not actually show up to save our society.

One month later, I think it is safe to say we didn’t have to wait long for it to get pretty ugly.

Ohio cleaning up toxic train derailment as pollution ‘plume’ moves downstream

Metro North resumes service in New Canaan after non-passenger train partially derails

Texas train derails in collision with 18-wheeler, leaving driver dead

BNSF expects to restore service stalled by Wadena derailment by Thursday

North Louisiana families evacuated after train derails