Headline News Archive

2018

October

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• Financial companies rack up complaints, but good luck finding them. A NerdWallet analysis of previously undisclosed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau data shows that Green Dot, a dominant prepaid card company, and Credit One, a leading

12

• Made in the USA: Online disinformation. Ahead of the midterm elections, false and divisive messages on social media — once the specialty of Russian-linked operatives — are now increasingly being created

11

• Experian credit freeze flaw may have revealed your PIN to fraudsters. The credit bureau’s process to retrieve a PIN that safeguards a frozen Experian credit report had a security defect, making it easier for

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• It's better for companies to be transparent about privacy bugs. Consumers and regulators have shown they will judge companies far more harshly for covering up data security issues than for openly discussing them. Google just

• The future is creepy when everything becomes a computer. In recent years, the tech industry’s largest powers set their sights on a new target for digital conquest. They promised wild conveniences and

09

• The government is rolling out 2-factor authentication. Government officials managing .gov websites will soon have to use the Google Authenticator app on their smartphones for verification.

08

• Google attempted to hide leak that exposed 500,000 poeple in Google Plus (Chinese). 【新唐人2018年10月09日讯】有媒体爆料称，谷歌因为软件漏洞造成了50万Google+ +用户个资被外洩。在个资洩露事件发生后，谷歌还刻意隐瞒，没有马上公布消息，只是内部处理了软件漏洞。谷歌8号周一关闭了Google+社群网路服务，母公司Alphabet股票应声下跌2.77%。

• Worried your Facebook account has been cloned?. Facebook users are being duped into thinking that their accounts have been cloned thanks to a viral message that made the rounds of the social

04

• Fitbit data used to charge 90-year-old man in stepdaughter’s killing. Mr. Aiello’s stepdaughter, Karen Navarra, 67, was discovered by a co-worker in her house with fatal lacerations on her head and neck. She had

03

• Facebook hack puts thousands of other sites at risk. When Mark Zuckerberg introduced an online tool called Facebook Connect in 2008, he hailed it as a kind of digital passport to the rest of the

September

29

• Consumer bureau official blasts colleague over blog dismissing racism. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) official in charge of fair lending is pulling her support for a top agency aide over blog posts

28

• Thousands sign Venmo privacy petition. People want their Venmo transactions to be private. More than 25,000 Americans signed a petition asking the digital transaction app to change its default

• Nueva ley permitirá a EEUU derribar drones. Una nueva ley bajo consideración del Congreso de Estados Unidos contiene una cláusula casi desapercibida que le daría a

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• Trump anti-discrimination official once called hate crimes hoaxes. A senior Trump appointee responsible for enforcing laws against financial discrimination once questioned in blog posts written under a pen name if using the n-word

• Uber reaches $148 million settlement over its 2016 data breach. Uber has agreed to pay $148 million to settle allegations from 50 states and the District that the ride-hailing company violated data breach laws when it waited

• Kavanaugh, recordatorio del costo de los deslices juveniles. El revuelo en torno a la conducta del candidato de Donald Trump a la Corte Suprema Brett Kavanaugh durante la adolescencia en la dé

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• Instagram has a drug problem. Its algorithms make it worse.. Instagram is known for its celebrity posts and photos of enviable vacations. But it has also become a sizable open marketplace for advertising illegal drugs.

• US attorneys general discuss social media privacy concerns. A meeting between top state law enforcement officials and Attorney General Jeff Sessions about how the government can safeguard the privacy of social media users

• Uber acuerda pagar 148 millones de dólares por robo de datos. Uber acordó pagar 148 millones de dólares y prometió fortalecer su protección de datos, luego de que la compañ

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• Congress wants to hear from everyone but consumers in a privacy hearing. “If the purpose of the hearing is to educate lawmakers, you’d want a diverse set of voices,” said Ernesto Falcon, legislative

• An insurance company wants your Fitbit data. Life insurance company John Hancock made a splash last week with the news that soon all of its policies would come bundled with the option

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• European Union says Facebook must change rules by end of 2018. The European Union gave Facebook an ultimatum: Provide users with more information about how their data is used or face sanctions. Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova

• Life insurance offering more incentive to live longer. “Vitality has been an optional benefit,” said Brooks Tingle, president and chief executive of John Hancock Insurance. “Now, we’re saying

• This company is helping parents track their children. Designed for family members, a new app called “Mom I Am Ok” will launch this month and allow parents to set agreed-upon &ldquo

• Nearly half of cellphone calls will be scams by 2019. Nearly half of all cellphone calls next year will come from scammers, according to First Orion, a company that provides phone carriers and their customers