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Archive of News from WirelessEd, in reverse chronological order.
- Headlines | FCC wants phone companies to start blocking robocalls by default. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing to push phone companies to "block unwanted calls to their customers by default."
This would be a major change…
- Headlines | How to fix mistakes on your credit report that could cost thousands. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Complaints about credit reporting, credit repair services and issues such as errors on individual consumer credit reports made up 43% of all the complaints made to the…
- Headlines | 5 things that changed for consumers since Trump became president. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Every president brings change. Laws change. Regulations change. The direction of the country changes. That’s what happens. But drop your political lens for a moment.
… - Headlines | Post your credit bureau complaint and likely get a response. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
In fact, if you’ve tried to get a credit bureau to remove erroneous information without any progress, try submitting your complaint here: consumerfinance.gov/complaint. And, what do…
- Headlines | CFPB rule to let debt collectors call, text and email repeatedly. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
The Trump administration wants to allow debt collectors to call seven times a week and text and email as much as they want. Consumer advocates say…
- Headlines | Google adds way to auto-delete your location history, web activity. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Google's new auto-delete feature will let Google users select how long they want their activity data to be saved for: three months or 18 months. Then,…
- Headlines | Would you let the police search your phone?. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Studies show that it takes much less pressure than it seems to secure people’s acquiescence. Police often don’t need to use weapons to get people…
- Headlines | Debt collectors could text, email you under new rules. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, under President Trump, already has moved to make life easier for payday lenders. It’s expected any day now to do…
- Headlines | You can’t stop robocalls. You shouldn’t have to.. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Today’s solutions for fighting spam and scam calls are ineffective. But the onus should be on the phone companies, not you, to solve this problem.
… - Headlines | FTC considering oversight of Facebook’s Zuckerberg. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Federal regulators are reportedly considering seeking some kind of oversight of Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership of Facebook over the social network giant’s mishandling of users’ personal…
- Headlines | Free speech puts U.S. on ‘collision course’ with global limits on big tech. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Britain, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and India have adopted or are considering laws that require stricter content moderation by tech platforms. But none of them…
- Headlines | Debt collectors may soon text, email consumers. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Debt collecting is an age-old business but it may soon receive a 21st-century revamp when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency created in the…
- Headlines | Uber vs. Lyft: Which ride-hailing app is better. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
While both services look identical, there are major differences. Uber is richer in features and available in more cities. Yet Lyft is more transparent in…
- Headlines | Could debt collectors send you texts, emails?. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will unveil debt collection rules in a few weeks, the agency’s director said potentially unleashing a battle over the industry’s…
- Headlines | Streaming TV has become a pricey, complicated mess. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
There is no real debate about the outcome: The dreams of cord cutters are largely unfulfilled. A transition that some hoped would provide more choice,…
- Headlines | Google’s Sensorvault: A boon for law enforcement. How it works.. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Law enforcement officials across the country have been seeking information from a Google database called Sensorvault — a trove of detailed location records involving at…
- Headlines | Net neutrality bill sails through the House but faces uncertain future. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
House lawmakers approved a Democrat-backed bill that would restore rules requiring AT&T, Verizon and other Internet providers to treat all Web traffic equally, marking an…
- Headlines | Presidential campaigns are about to start texting you all the time. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Campaigns have discovered the effectiveness of texting voters. Your lock screen won’t be safe this election season.
{/exp:ce_str:ing} - Headlines | Robo-callers rang Americans’ phones 26 billion times last year. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
The ever-worsening scourge of robo-calls is receiving renewed attention on Capitol Hill, where top Democrats and Republicans this week are set to take an early…
- Headlines | Millions of sensitive Facebook user records were left exposed. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
More than 540 million Facebook records — including users’ comments, likes, account names and more — were left exposed by a third-party company on an…
- Headlines | Following Equifax hack attack, federal power to punish needed. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
The hack attack victim provided a short narrative in the CFPB complaint: “My life has been a complete nightmare, for I have been denied credit,…
- Headlines | Congress is taking aim at robocallers. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
The ever-worsening scourge of robo-calls is receiving renewed attention in Congress, where top Democrats and Republicans this week are set to take an early step…
- Headlines | Social security scam is making the rounds. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Tax season is a time rife with phone scammers as fraudulent callers attempt to cash in on citizens’ fear of the IRS, tax audits and…
- Headlines | FTC plans broad review of Facebook’s tech data practices. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is planning to launch a wide-ranging study of tech companies' data practices, in the latest sign of the increased scrutiny…
- Headlines | Consumer protection wanes under Trump, reports find. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Tasked with protecting Americans against harmful financial practices, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken a less aggressive approach under the Trump administration, according to a…
- Headlines | John Oliver unveils robocall campaign against FCC. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Comedian John Oliver used Sunday’s Last Week Tonight show to attack the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for inaction on stopping the spread of so-called robocalls. He…
- Headlines | Net neutrality is back in play. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
House and Senate Democratic leaders unveiled new legislation Wednesday proposing to restore federal net neutrality rules on Internet providers such as AT&T and Verizon, in…
- Headlines | How big tech stole our data while democracy slept. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Corporations have created a new kind of marketplace out of our private human experiences. That is the conclusion of an explosive new book that argues…
- Headlines | OneWeb wants to use space to connect billions to the Web. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
If Greg Wyler’s plans at OneWeb are successful, what he envisions is nothing short of revolutionary: becoming one of the world’s largest providers of Internet…
- Headlines | Congress will ‘assert itself’ on online privacy. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Congressional Democrats embarked Tuesday on a wide-ranging campaign to probe Facebook, Google and their peers in the tech industry, a new burst of oversight that…
- Headlines | How I ditched my phone and unbroke my brain. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
My name is Kevin, and I have a phone problem.
And if you’re anything like me — and the statistics suggest you probably are, at…
- Headlines | Robocalls: Relief in the works may not stop the ringing. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Americans got 5.2 billion robocalls last month. Chicago’s share was 36 million.
CBS 2 Investigator Dorothy Tucker explains why efforts underway to curb the calls…
- Headlines | Consumers still prefer paper bills, but can they make you go digital?. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Paper may be vilified in green offices, but it’s still king at home when it comes to how we receive our bills. Despite the digital…
- Headlines | Is your phone always low on battery and chewing through data?. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
A sneaky piece of advertising software may be responsible for driving up millions of Android users’ mobile data usage and wasting their device’s battery life,…
- Headlines | Devastated by one shutdown, dreading the next. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
The federal government had finally called her back to work after 35 days, but now Vicki Ibarra wondered how she could afford to get there.…
- Headlines | How to stop robocalls and block numbers. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
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,…
- Headlines | Are your children racking up mobile game charges?. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
At the heart of all of this are mobile games that persuade children — who are the most vulnerable — to buy virtual goods using…
- Headlines | Apple escalates war against Facebook’s privacy practices. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Apple escalated its war against Facebook and its privacy practices, accusing the social-networking giant of breaking its rules and distributing a secret data-collection app to…
- Headlines | Apple was slow to act on FaceTime bug. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
The bug, and Apple’s slow response to patching it, have renewed concerns about the company’s commitment to security, even though it regularly advertises its bug…
- Headlines | Lender forebearance can save your credit score. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Lenders are offering a wide variety of help to workers impacted by the partial government shutdown, but one type of assistance in particular can save…
- Headlines | Switching to digital billing statements?. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
It seems like everything is going digital, so it’s no surprise that businesses of all sizes (and even some government agencies) are pushing us to…
- Press Releases | Consumer groups urge action on bill to stop “spoofed” robocalls. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
For Immediate Release
WASHINGTON, DC — A bipartisan bill reintroduced today in the Senate will address the growing problem of “spoofed” robocalls that use fraudulent…
- Press Releases | Consumers prefer a paper trail (Survey says consumers choose paper statements over electronic notices). {/exp:ce_str:ing}
The message is clear: Consumers overwhelmingly prefer to receive bills and statements on paper rather than electronically, according to a new survey of more…
- Headlines | AT&T says it’ll stop selling your location data. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
AT&T said it will stop selling its customers' location data to third-party service providers after a report this week said the information was winding up…
- Headlines | Facebook literally can’t be deleted on some Samsung phones. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Facebook will always be around, at least for some people who own Samsung smartphones.
{/exp:ce_str:ing} - Headlines | For sale, your location: Revelations about data sales. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Recent revelations about companies that traffic in personal location data — and how easy that information can be acquired for a few hundred dollars —…
- Headlines | Five workplace predictions for 2019. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
BENEFITS: Family leave for non-parents will become more common — even a promised year off at some tech companies — has become all the rage…
- Headlines | 2019 court fights that will decide the future of net neutrality. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
Although the Federal Communications Commission last year officially nixed the Obama-era rules governing the conduct of Internet providers such as Verizon and AT&T, the move…
- Headlines | 2018 was the year of 5G hype. 5G reality is yet to come.. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
T-Mobile is not the only carrier touting the amazing new capabilities of 5G, or fifth-generation data networks. The entire industry has spent much of the…
- Headlines | The Fed raised rates. Here’s what that means for your wallet. {/exp:ce_str:ing}
The Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate again — the fourth increase this year.
Savers and retirees seeking juicier yields will have an…
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