Headline News Archive

2019

February

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• States, consumer groups blast CFPB’s fintech protections. State attorneys general, consumer advocates, community activists, and banking regulators are criticizing proposed legal protections for banks and technology firms that develop “innovative”

• Can Washington keep watch over Facebook and others?. Experts say the government has to seize on the opportunity to send a message — to Facebook and its peers — that it hears consumers

• Google failed to tell customers it put microphones in Nest security systems. The worst kind of microphone is a hidden microphone. Customers were caught off guard when Google announced its home security system, Nest Secure, would be

• Consumers still prefer paper bills, but can they make you go digital?. Paper may be vilified in green offices, but it’s still king at home when it comes to how we receive our bills. 

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• Password managers have a security flaw. But still use one.. A new study has identified security flaws in five of the most popular password managers.  Now for some counterintuitive advice: I still think you

• Is your phone always low on battery and chewing through data?. A sneaky piece of advertising software may be responsible for driving up millions of Android users’ mobile data usage and wasting their device&rsquo

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• With fitness trackers in the workplace, bosses can monitor your every step. Devices worn on employees’ bodies are an increasingly valuable source of workforce health intelligence for employers and insurance companies. It’s fueling a

• Facebook rompió las reglas y debería ser regulado, dicen legisladores británicos. Facebook violó intencionalmente la ley de privacidad y competencia de datos y debería, junto con otras grandes compañías tecnol

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• Some Equifax credit file locks have expired. Now what?. Those who took advantage of the Equifax offer may not realize that their free TrustedID Premier subscription ended on January 31. On that date, those Equifax

• Reporte: Facebook y FTC discuten multa millonaria. fallas de la red social relacionadas con la privacidad de sus usuarios, de acuerdo con... Facebook y la Comisión Federal de Comercio est

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• New online services are like Priceline.com for home sellers. Many consumers are accustomed to entering a date and a place and having an instant array of options comparing costs for flights, hotels and car

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• A DNA testing company is working with the FBI. The move is sure to raise privacy concerns as law enforcement gains the ability to match DNA from crime scenes to a vast library of

• Dígale adiós a las filas en los negocios. Pronto las filas en los negocios para pagar serán cosa del pasado. Un año después de que Amazon abriese

• Target actualiza app que subía precios al entrar a tienda. Target ha actualizado su aplicación móvil después de que una televisora en Minneapolis reportara que los precios exhibidos en

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• How to stop robocalls and block numbers. Depending on your service, you may have access to Anonymous Call Rejection. Enter the magic number *77, and you will hear three beeps. Hang up, and

• Germany restricts Facebook’s data gathering. Germany’s competition authority has ruled that Facebook cannot gather personal data across platforms and websites unless users give permission from each individual site,

• Are your children racking up mobile game charges?. At the heart of all of this are mobile games that persuade children — who are the most vulnerable — to buy virtual goods using

• Regulador alemán falla contra Facebook por uso de datos. Las autoridades alemanas fallaron el jueves que Facebook no tiene permitido utilizar datos de los usuarios sin su consentimiento para otras aplicaciones y cibersitios con

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• Nuevo sistema biométrico de embarque en el Aeropuerto de Miami: reconocimiento facial. Sonría a la cámara y muestre su pasaporte: es la nueva forma de abordar vuelos internacionales en el Aeropuerto Internacional de

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• Four to five billion consumer records were hacked in 2018, an increase of 126% over 2017 (Chinese). 華府「身分盜竊資源中心」(ITRC)2018年年底資料外洩報告顯示，駭客去年竊取包含敏感個人資料的消費者紀錄近4億4700萬筆，比2017年增加126%，並創下一年內個資遭竊最高紀錄。報告說：「資料外洩已成平常事，每天都發生。」

• Facebook is laughing all the way to the bank. You say you care about privacy, but you don’t really, and neither do millions of other Americans.

• Padre de Texas demanda a compañeros de hijo por ciberacoso. Un hombre de San Antonio demandó a los compañeros de clase de su hijo y a sus padres, acusándolos de

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• How your health information is sold, turned into ‘risk scores’. Companies are starting to sell “risk scores” to doctors, insurers and hospitals to identify patients at risk of opioid addiction or overdose, without

• ¿Qué efecto tiene Facebook en tu salud mental?. No es fácil acabar con el hábito digital más común del mundo, ni siquiera en un arranque

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• Facebook paga $20 dólares a usuarios para poder ‘espiar’ sus datos personales. La red social utiliza una app para recolectar todo tipo de información del teléfono de sus usuarios Con el fin de