Headline News Archive

2023

February

21

• FTC charges GoodRx with illegally disclosing customer health information. Federal regulators have accused the California-based discount drug and telehealth provider with violating federal law by “failing to notify consumers” about its &ldquo

07

• Americans flunked this online privacy test. Many people in the United States would like to control the information that companies can learn about them online. Yet when presented with a series

January

18

• Annoyed by grocery store loyalty apps? How to save anyway. You’ve seen the ads proclaiming, “Go digital and save even more!” To do this, though, you must have a smartphone. According

05

• A breach at LastPass has password lessons for us all. LastPass, the maker of a popular security program for managing digital passwords, published details about a recent security breach in which cybercriminals had obtained copies

2022

December

19

• Epic games to pay $520 million over children’s privacy and trickery charges. The Federal Trade Commission announced a $520 million settlement with Epic Games, the developer of popular video games like Fortnite and Fall Guys, over charges that

• Victims of wire-transfer fraud reveal how they lost thousands to scammers. According to the FBI, about $2 billion is lost annually to wire-transfer fraud. Some cases involve newfangled payment apps, such as Zelle, while others rely on

October

24

• She signed in with Google and strangers got access to all her files. You’ve probably seen it on lots of apps and websites: buttons urging you to sign in with your Google or Facebook account. Sometimes

August

• Beware of fake warnings in text messages. Scammers pose as a bank or pretend to be from Amazon and send a fake text about suspicious activity on your account or a

18

• Military veterans are more vulnerable to scams than civilians. Go Navy Tax Services seemed like a great option for sailors looking for help during tax season. Situated just outside the gates of Naval Base

July

26

• LinkedIn privacy settings you should change now. LinkedIn has dozens of data, privacy and advertising settings you can control.  If you do only one thing make yourself anonymous while looking at

07

• Apple unveils new security feature to block spyware. Apple said that it will introduce an innovative security feature “Lockdown Mode” to give potential targets of government hacking an easy way to

04

• Google: To protect women, collect less data about everyone. Following the Supreme Court decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, anything Google knows about you could be acquired by police in states

June

22

• Justice Department and Meta settle landmark housing discrimination case. Facebook-owner Meta agreed to revamp the social network’s targeted advertising system under a sweeping settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, after the

21

• Customers say banks refuse to pay when money is stolen on Zelle. In recent years, payment apps like Zelle, Venmo and Cash App have become the preferred way for millions of customers to transfer money from one

15

• What parents need to know about child ID theft. Kids usually don’t find out they’ve been victims of identity theft until they take a big life step like applying for

14

• Doctor check-in software harvests your health data. There’s a burgeoning business in harvesting our patient data to target us with ultra-personalized ads. Patients who think medical information should come from

02

• You can ask Google to take your personal data out of its search results. Google is offering a new tool to anyone who doesn't want their phone number, email or street address and other personal information to be

• Nobody reads privacy policies. How to give us real privacy choices.. I applaud Twitter for putting effort into being more understandable. The same goes for Facebook, which last week rewrote its infamous privacy policy to a

May

26

• Twitter pays $150 million penalty for breaking privacy promises again. It’s FTC 101. Companies can’t tell consumers they will use their personal information for one purpose and then use it for another.

April

18

• Find out and fix what big data says about you. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau maintains a list of consumer reporting agencies that’s currently 38 pages long. In addition to the big three credit

05

• Your digital footprint: It's bigger than you realize. A few years ago, Ken Crum started getting uncomfortable with how much of his life seemed to be online. The long-time computer programmer was particularly

March

15

• How California is building the nation’s first privacy police. Ashkan Soltani faces the daunting task of overseeing the first government body in the United States with the sole job of regulating how Google, Facebook,

February

28

• Cómo protegerse de las estafas más frecuentes. Las estafas por mensaje de texto, correo electrónico, Facebook y otros medios están en auge. Aquí te mostramos có

16

• Senators unveil children’s online safety bill. The Kids Online Safety Act would require online platforms to provide parents and minors younger than 16 with “easy-to-use” tools to keep them safe,

09

• Contractor to drop facial recognition requirement for all government agencies. The private contractor ID.me said it will drop the facial recognition requirement in the identity-verification software used by 30 states and 10 federal agencies, a major