Headline News Archive

2021

March

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• Amazon’s new rotating, follow-you camera is useful—and invasive. The covid-19 Zoom boom has turned us into camera operators. Making sure everyone’s face can be seen in the videoconference is a daily

February

27

• Government agencies increasingly are accessing private information. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have tapped a private database containing hundreds of millions of phone, water, electricity and other utility records

• Forged documents add another headache to COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Next month, up to 6 million more Californians with disabilities and underlying health conditions will qualify for inoculations. The state has yet to determine what type

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• The best law you've never heard of. Americans should feel angry about companies harvesting every morsel of our data to sell us sneakers or rate our creditworthiness. But a data protection law

• A.I. here, there, everywhere. Many of us already live with artificial intelligence now, but researchers say interactions with the technology will become increasingly personalized.

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• Child protection nonprofit alleges 'manipulative' upselling with math game. The Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, a nonprofit advocacy group, accused a popular math game used in thousands of elementary schools of using &ldquo

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• Civil rights groups ask Biden to oppose facial recognition. The American Civil Liberties Union and more than 40 other groups urged President Biden in a letter to freeze federal use of facial recognition and block

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• Tips on how to master the vaccine-appointment website. Starting this week, there will be even more places you need to look for appointments online. Pharmacy chains including CVS and Walgreens are beginning to

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• El reconocimiento facial puede ayudar a identificar a los alborotadores del Capitolio, pero perjudicaría a muchos otros, según los expertos. En los días posteriores al motín del 6 de enero en el Capitolio de la nación, hubo prisa por identificar

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• Researchers find more victims of Iran’s hacks. Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered the identities of more than 1,000 victims of two hacking groups tied to the Iranian government. The reports shine a new light

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• Facial recognition may help find Capitol rioters — and harm others. In the days following the Jan. 6 riot at the nation’s Capitol, there was a rush to identify those who had stormed the building

• Coming soon: The ‘vaccine passport’. A vaccination pass or passport is documentation proving that you have been vaccinated against Covid-19. Some versions will also allow people to show that they

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• Learn if facial recognition systems used your photos. An online tool targets only a small slice of what’s out there, but may open some eyes to how widely artificial intelligence research

January

30

• Apple’s new privacy ‘nutrition labels.’ Many were false.. You go to your iPhone’s App Store to download a game. Under a new “App Privacy” label added last month, there

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• Panel anula decisiones de Facebook de eliminar contenidos. Una junta de supervisión cuasi independiente de Facebook emitió sus primeros fallos el jueves...

• Telegram y el desafío de la extrema derecha. Luego de que Facebook y Twitter extremaron sus medidas contra la desinformación, grandes cantidades de extremistas y teóricos de la conspiraci

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• Who's making all these scam calls? Hacker, reporter team up to find out.. Every year, tens of millions of Americans collectively lose billions of dollars to scam callers. Where does the other end of the line lead? One

• Apple aconseja actualizar dispositivos de inmediato. Apple aconsejó el miércoles a los usuarios de iPhone y iPad actualizar sus dispositivos de inmediato para corregir fallas de seguridad que

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• Hospitals drag their feet on disclosing costs of medical services. Hospitals are now required to disclose the prices they secretly negotiate with insurers. The rules went into place Jan. 1, but hospital compliance is spotty. 

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• When free speech clashes with keeping your job. For some readers, employer restrictions on political activity present a personal dilemma.

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• Black Americans suffered the most under Trump-era CFPB, study finds. The paper, from two Boston College researchers, tracked consumer complaints, and the follow-ups recorded by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Their findings show that in

• Consumer bureau director resigns at Biden's request. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Kathy Kraninger resigned at the request of the newly sworn-in President Biden, clearing the way for his nominee to

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• FAA approves airport coronavirus screenings. In late December, the Federal Aviation Administration gave its approval for one airport in Iowa to use coronavirus relief money to check passengers for coronavirus

• ‘A veces actúan demasiado tarde’: cuestionan a Facebook y Twitter por su inacción ante los abusos. Los grupos y activistas de derechos humanos llevan años instando a las empresas a hacer más para eliminar el contenido que

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• WhatsApp postpones privacy policy change amid confusion, backlash. In response to all the concerns and confusion, the company canceled the February 8 deadline for users to accept these rules, thus delaying it until May 15.