News

2019

April

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• Debt collectors may soon text, email consumers. Debt collecting is an age-old business but it may soon receive a 21st-century revamp when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency created in the wake of the financial crisis to protect consumers, proposes new

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• Why you can no longer get lost in the crowd. Lawmakers and industry leaders are missing the big picture. They are stuck on traditional concepts like “transparency,” “consent” and “secrecy,” which leads to proposals that reinforce broken mechanisms like

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• Opinion: Privacy is too big to understand. At its heart, privacy is about how that data is used to take away our control. Today, our control is chipped away in ways large and small. It may be as innocuous as using your

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• Social media poses a threat to privacy - Americans still use it amid complaints (Chinese). 社群媒體改變了人們的通訊形式，但美國人對社群媒體的看法存在嚴重悖論，華爾街日報和國家廣播公司新聞網(NBC News)5日公布調查顯示，美國人一方面抱怨社群媒體對隱私構成威脅，另一方面卻是繼續每天使用。

• Mulvaney’s master class in destroying the government from within. The C.F.P.B. was created to protect Americans from predatory lenders after the financial crisis. President Trump’s new chief of staff took it apart on his way to White House. Inside

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• Google's Sensorvault: A boon for law enforcement. How it works.. Law enforcement officials across the country have been seeking information from a Google database called Sensorvault — a trove of detailed location records involving at least hundreds of millions of devices worldwide, The New York

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• Amazon workers are listening to what you tell Alexa. Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia. Millions more are reluctant to invite the devices and their powerful microphones into their

• Dilema para los padres: ¿está creando el auge del streaming un exceso de programación infantil?. Ya sea que prefieran Elsa, Bob Esponja o una heroína rusa llamada Masha, los niños tienen incontables razones para pedir más tiempo frente a la pantalla. Aún

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• Do you know what you've given up?. That phone in your pocket, the surveillance camera on the corner: You’ve traded away a bit of anonymity, of autonomy, for the usefulness of one, the protection of the other. Is it O

• How Facebook is trying to stop its own algorithms from doing their job. For years, Facebook has built its algorithms to maximize engagement and clicks.  The company has announced a slew of new features and incremental product updates that counter the core engineering of its own systems

• Dark web monitoring. We’ve all heard of the dark web, although few of us really know much about it. News reports tell us it’s where criminals buy and sell stolen personal information, such as

• Miles de empleados de Amazon escuchan lo que la gente le dice a Alexa. Decenas de millones de personas usan bocinas inteligentes y su software de voz para jugar, encontrar música o buscar trivialidades. De igual manera, otros tantos millones, se resisten a adquirir dispositivos y sus

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• Employers, health insurers using apps to track your pregnancy. Period- and pregnancy-tracking apps such as Ovia have climbed in popularity as fun, friendly companions for the daunting uncertainties of childbirth, and many expectant women check in daily to see, for instance, how their unborn

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• 'Grandparent scam' never goes out of fashion. A man reached out to our Call for Action team to warn others about a frightening phone call he received. The caller claimed the man’s son was in a car accident and he

• California lanzó el sistema de registro de votantes del DMV a pesar de errores e intromisión de 'hackers'. California ha lanzado pocos proyectos gubernamentales con intereses más altos que su ambicioso programa para registrar automáticamente a millones de nuevos votantes en el Departamento de Vehículos Motorizados, un

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• Robo-callers rang Americans’ phones 26 billion times last year. The ever-worsening scourge of robo-calls is receiving renewed attention on Capitol Hill, where top Democrats and Republicans this week are set to take an early step toward cracking down against scammers that prey on consumers'

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• Millions of sensitive Facebook user records were left exposed. More than 540 million Facebook records — including users’ comments, likes, account names and more — were left exposed by a third-party company on an Amazon cloud-computing server, researchers disclosed, marking the latest major privacy

• Following Equifax hack attack, federal power to punish needed. The hack attack victim provided a short narrative in the CFPB complaint: “My life has been a complete nightmare, for I have been denied credit, turned down employment, and unable to provide adequate shelter

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• 500 million Facebook user data stored in the cloud feared leakage (Chinese). 社群網站臉書今天表示，已經由亞馬遜公司的雲端伺服器移除含有臉書用戶資料的資料庫。網路安全業者UpGuard稍早發布報告說，超過5億筆臉書用戶資料可能因此面臨外洩風險。

• Congress is taking aim at robocallers. The ever-worsening scourge of robo-calls is receiving renewed attention in Congress, where top Democrats and Republicans this week are set to take an early step toward cracking down on scammers who prey on consumers’