Headline News Archive

2011

November

16

• Facebook security breach raises concerns. A widespread spam attack on Facebook has caused violent and pornographic images to be posted on some users’ profile pages, representing one of the worst…

15

• Regulators sniffing around mobile privacy issues. Regulators are starting to investigate what kind of oversight is in place to make sure that mobile applications don’t encroach on user privacy rights, a…

11

• Facebook will give users more say over their privacy to settle FTC investigation. Facebook is nearing a settlement with federal regulators that would require the world’s most popular online hangout to obtain approval from its users before making…

10

• Mobile apps can help you spend wisely. Jim Langehennig set out last Black Friday to get a popular HDTV with a great advertised price. When the Consumer Reportselectronics lab manager got to…

09

• Panel emphasizes safety in digitization of health records. Poorly designed, hard-to-use computerized health records are a threat to patient safety, and an independent agency should be set up to investigate injuries and deaths…

08

• Credit scores to add more consumer data. Many consumers applying for a mortgage are going to start sharing more personal information with lenders next year, like it or not. FICO scores, the…

07

• Police GPS device use triggers privacy clash. Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- For a month in 2005, police in Washington tracked Antoine Jones’s every move -- or at least those he made in…

03

• Facebook Timeline a new privacy test. When Lisa Hope King created her Facebook account in 2004, things were much simpler. Facebook was a new website with a straightforward format. King's status…

October

31

• Many mobile users are uneasy about smartphone security. Nearly half of mobile users have increased data use significantly in the last year, but not even close to all of that population feels that…

30

• Report: 600,000 Facebook log-ins compromised per day. According to Facebook, members log in to the social media site billions of times a day. And "only 0.06 percent" of those log-ins are compromised—connections…

26

• FBI seeking personal Internet-usage data more often. The FBI is increasingly going to court to get personal e-mail and Internet usage information as service providers balk at disclosing customer data without a…

19

• 'Smishing' scammers may hit cellphones. Brion Sever received an automated voice mail message on his cellphone last week that caught him off guard. It contained an alert that his Wells…

• Watch out for social media scams. Your social media account on Twitter or Facebook may have connected you to a forgotten classmate or sweetheart, but it can also lead you straight…

• Attorneys general push for Cordray to lead consumer agency. The White House has enlisted a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general to help break a blockade by Senate Republicans of President Obama’s nominee to…

17

• Electronic Privacy Act turns 25; no reason to celebrate. Technology has changed a lot since 1986, when the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) became law. Cell phones no longer look like bricks. Thirteen-pound…

14

• Next layer of air security: Chat-downs on top of pat-downs?. s Ingrid Esser hands a Transportation Security Administration officer her identification and boarding pass for a flight from Logan International Airport to Washington, D.C., she…

11

• New iPhone conceals sheer magic. What’s in a name? A lot, apparently. Apple’s new iPhone is called the iPhone 4S. But what people really wanted was the iPhone 5. The…

07

• Conquering with complaints. Consumers today are more empowered than ever after they've been wronged by a company. That's because squeaky wheels have more and better ways to squeak.…

06

• How to boost your privacy on Facebook. Inc. recently announced a bunch of new features that Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said would allow for "frictionless sharing." Now you don't have to "like"…

05

• Consumer Action conducted Internet Safety Training (Chinese). 消費者行動（Consumer Action）4日在密爾比達舉行「使用互聯網安全守則」社區圓桌會議，邀請多位社區非牟利組織參加，擴大民眾對網路安全的瞭解。

03

• There's little privacy in a digital world. During his two-hour morning bike ride, Eric Hartman doesn't pay much attention to his iPhone. But the iPhone is paying attention to him. As he…

02

• Latest Facebook changes touch privacy nerve. Facebook has touched a nerve with a broad range of critics upset about the social network's latest batch of online sharing technology. Ten consumer and…

September

30

• When it comes to cell phone privacy, you're an open book. Few people would willingly carry around a device that tracks their movements, records their conversations, and keeps tabs on all the people they talk to.…

• Discover expects U.S. 'enforcement action' over its marketing. Federal regulators plan to take enforcement action against Discover Financial Services, one of the nation's largest issuers of credit cards. The allegation: Discover deceptively marketed…

29

• Facebook's Ticker broadcasts everything you do. Go install streaming music app Spotify on Facebook. Now brace yourself for a flood of comments and quips about your musical tastes -- including the…