News

2019

October

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• Does your toothbrush have an app yet?. New technology is creating some excitement in the formerly ho-hum world of dental care.

• Your cell phone selfies could tell stalkers where you live. High-resolution cell phone images can expose personal information few selfie-takers realize they are revealing.

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• How to set your Google data to self destruct. For years, Google has kept a record of our internet searches by default. The company hoards that data so it can build detailed profiles on us, which helps it make personalized recommendations for content but

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• 10 tips to avoid leaving tracks around the internet. Are you worried about private messaging? Government surveillance? Third-party trackers on the web? Addressing each of these concerns requires different tools and techniques.

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• U.S. officials asked Facebook to end encrypted messaging - Facebook opposed (Chinese). 美國官員呼籲社群媒體巨擘臉書，勿在沒有提供當局查看訊息內容管道的情況下，對旗下所有通訊服務採用防窺探加密功能。臉書認為此舉將破壞用戶隱私和安全，拒絕配合。

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• Facebook can be forced to delete content, E.U. court rules. Europe’s top court said that an individual country can order Facebook to take down posts, photographs and videos and restrict global access to that material, in a ruling that has implications for how

• Debunking a credit score myth: Use less than 30% of your credit limit. The top two factors that determine your credit score are your payment history and the amount you owe.  If your credit card limit was $1,000, you should limit your purchases to no more than $300. This

• Las cortes de la UE pueden ordenar a Facebook borrar contenido a nivel mundial. Los tribunales de la Unión Europea pueden ordenar a Facebook que elimine los comentarios de los usuarios de su servicio que hayan sido declarados ilegales, según un fallo publicado el jueves

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• Appeals court ruling upholds FCC’s canceling of net neutrality rules. A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled in favor of the Federal Communications Commission and upheld its repeal of Obama-era net neutrality protections, issuing a mixed decision that also appeared to open the door for

• Zuckerberg, Sen. Warren battle it out over breaking up big tech. After Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised to 'fight’ efforts by Sen. Warren to break up Facebook in leaked comments, Warren used Twitter to fire back.

• Uber podría grabar audio de viajes si los usuarios se sienten inseguros con el chofer. La nueva herramienta aún está en etapa de pruebas Se espera que Uber haga un cambio importante para hacer que sus usuarios se sientan más seguros mientras viajan con sus

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• Moneda de Facebook se tambalea ante dudas de socios. Los socios de la red de pagos basados en la criptomoneda de Facebook, la libra, están indecisos sobre su apoyo a la divisa debido a las reacciones negativas por parte de las autoridades

September

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• Consumer Action INSIDER - October 2019. The October 2019 issue of the Consumer Action INSIDER details a partnership between Verizon and Consumer Action to combat the onslaught of robocalls; outlines our involvement in the Insurance Consumer Protection Advisory Council (to identify new ways to reduce insurance fraud); informs readers of what action to take when a landlord will not return their security deposit; lists the newest class action settlements; updates readers on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's work; and more.

• Consumer Action INSIDER - October 2019. The October 2019 issue of the Consumer Action INSIDER details a partnership between Verizon and Consumer Action to combat the onslaught of robocalls; outlines our involvement in the Insurance Consumer Protection Advisory Council (to identify new ways to reduce insurance fraud); informs readers of what action to take when a landlord will not return their security deposit; lists the newest class action settlements; updates readers on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's work; and more.

• How to make the most of Apple's new privacy tools. The New York Times tested the new suite of privacy tools in Apple’s latest mobile software, from minimizing location sharing to silencing robocalls.

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• DoorDash data breach affected close to 5M customers (Chinese). 接受訂購餐廳餐點的外送平台DoorDash今天表示，因為系統暴露出的漏洞，導致近500萬筆客戶、餐廳、外送員的資料外洩。

• Cyber insurance blamed for spike in ransomware attacks and payment demands. Some cybersecurity professionals are concerned that insurance policies designed to limit the damage of ransomware attacks might be encouraging hackers, who see insurers covering increasingly large ransoms and choose to target the type of institutions

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• Researches found that 60% of the top 500 US companies were invaded by hackers (Chinese). 企業安全研究機構「Proofpoint」安全研究人員24日表示，網路駭客已入侵近60%美國企業雲端運算網路，而幾乎所有產業都受到打擊。

• 5 cheap(ish) things to beef up your digital security. The only way to be truly safe from the prying eyes of social networks and advertisers is to leave the internet for good, but because most people won’t or can’t go

• Imágenes virales lideran manipulación en redes sociales como YouTube, Instagram: investigadores. El éxito de memes, videos y fotografías virales en la difusión de desinformación en línea los ha convertido en una importante herramienta de la manipulació