Headline News Archive

2018

April

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• Facebook knows a ton about your health. Now they want to make money. In early April, MSNBC reported that Facebook recently launched a project based in its secretive “Building 8” group to get hospitals to share anonymized patient…

18

• A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook’s new GDPR privacy changes. Facebook is about to start pushing European users to speed through giving consent for its new GDPR privacy law compliance changes. It will ask people…

17

• 1000s of apps in Google Play Store may be illegally tracking children. Thousands of free, popular children's apps available on the Google Play Store could be violating child privacy laws, according to a new, large-scale study, highlighting…

13

• Facebook is complicated. That shouldn’t stop lawmakers.. The biggest obstacle to regulating Facebook is not Congress’s lack of digital expertise. It’s a lack of political will.

12

• Mulvaney leading Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over a cliff. Accounts of the slow death of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are not exaggerations. In his just released report to Congress, the agency’s acting director,…

• I downloaded the information Facebook has on me. Yikes.. There was so much that Facebook knew about me — more than I wanted to know. But after looking at the totality of what the…

• Facebook is now in the data-privacy spotlight. Could Google be next?. The quiet fear among the nation's tech elite, though, has been that extra attention on Facebook will reflect on everyone — Google, perhaps, most of…

• Esto es todo lo que Facebook guarda sobre ti. Cuando descargué una copia de los datos de mi cuenta de Facebook, nunca esperé ver tanto. Mi perfil no es muy abarcador; prácticamente no publico…

11

• An inside look at your favorite dating sites. What’s happening behind the scenes at the sites and apps you know and love and hate, along with a couple that may not be on…

• Zuckerberg evidencia brecha generacional con legisladores. El director general de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, enfrentó el martes y el miércoles interrogatorios por parte de diversas comisiones del Senado y de la Cámara…

10

• Facebook empieza a alertar usuarios afectados por privacidad. Facebook comenzó a alertar el martes a ciertos usuarios que su información quedó comprometida debido al escándalo de privacidad de Cambridge Analytica.

• LO ÚLTIMO: Facebook rechaza baja de uso tras escándalo. Lo último sobre el escándalo de privacidad de Facebook y la comparecencia de Mark Zuckerberg ante el Senado...

09

• Piden revisar normas de privacidad infantil en YouTube. Lea con detenimiento los términos del servicio de YouTube y se dará cuenta de que ha afirmado que tiene edad suficiente para ver el contenido…

• Zuckerberg: FB no hizo lo suficiente para proteger usuarios. El director general de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, dijo que la red social no hizo lo suficiente para evitar que sus recursos fueran usados para hacer…

• El verdadero costo de una aplicación o servicio ‘gratuito’. Si hubiera que llegar a una sola conclusión general acerca de la filtración de datos en la que estuvo involucrada Cambridge Analytica, la consultora electoral…

05

• Panera’s data breach puts attention on risks of loyalty programs. The records belonged to customers who had registered for the MyPanera program to order food online. The details exposed included their names, email and physical addresses, birthdays, and…

• Facebook:‘Malicious actors’ used its tools to discover identities, collect data. Facebook said Wednesday that “malicious actors” took advantage of search tools on its platform, making it possible for them to discover the identities and collect…

04

• Mortgage applicants beware IRS ‘tax transcript’ program's security. Federal auditors say the popular “tax transcript” program run by the Internal Revenue Service and used by millions of mortgage applicants a year lacks adequate…

• Mulvaney, Consumer Bureau’s chief, urges Congress to cripple agency. Mr. Mulvaney, a longtime and unapologetic critic of the financial crisis-era bureau, has spent the last several months freezing its enforcement activities, dropping cases on…

• Escándalo de Facebook afectó a más de los que se creía. Facebook anunció el miércoles que millones de personas más de las que se creía, podrían haber quedado expuestas por el escándalo de privacidad de Cambridge…

03

• What it was like to finally write my will. Did you know Prince died without a will? It’s true! All that money, and one of the greatest performers I ever saw onstage didn’t spend…

March

30

• Tips for better passwords. The Under Armour hack is a reminder to use strong passwords. Here are a few ways to keep your personal info safe.

• MyFitnessPal hack affects 150 million user accounts. The accounts of about 150 million users of nutrition-tracking app MyFitnessPal were breached last month, Under Armour (UAA) said Thursday, adding its name to the…

• US to require would-be immigrants to turn over social media handles. he Trump administration plans to require immigrants applying to come to the United States to submit five years of social media history, it announced Thursday,…

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• Facebook cuts ties to data brokers in blow to targeted ads. Facebook Inc said it would end its partnerships with several large data brokers who help advertisers target people on the social network, a step that…