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2018

June

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• Headlines | iPhones will automatically share location when people dial 911. Your iPhone will soon be able to share your location data automatically if you ever have to call 911, Apple Inc. announced Monday. The feature is designed to give first responders faster and more accurate…

16

• Headlines | Credit freezes will soon be free for everyone. Starting this fall, the big three credit reporting agencies — Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion — will be required to let you freeze your credit file for free. A freeze can help prevent identity thieves from…

14

• Headlines | Apple ending apps’ ability to secretly sell your contacts list. Apple's recently updated policy for developers on its App Store now prohibits apps from selling information collected from your address book to other people. The changes, which were first reported by Bloomberg News, prohibit apps from using Apple's…
• Headlines | Apple making it harder for police to collect evidence from iPhones. Apple announced that it would block access to a port that law enforcement uses to break into iPhones during criminal investigations, a move that could reignite debate over whether tech companies are doing enough to…

13

• Headlines | AT&T wins: Judge clears $85 billion bid for Time Warner with no conditions. A federal judge said Tuesday that AT&T's $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner is legal, clearing the path for a deal that gives the pay-TV provider ownership of cable channels such as HBO and CNN…

09

• Headlines | Trump’s consumer agency chief looks to shut down complaint database. The Trump administration may shut down a federal database of consumer complaints about the financial-services industry. Banks think that’s a swell idea. “In what world does it make sense to give consumers less critical information…

07

• Headlines | More than half of U.S. households have ditched landline phones. More than half of U.S. households — 53.9% — rely entirely on cellphones, according to a survey from the National Center for Health Statistics, an arm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There…
• Headlines | Mulvaney fires all 25 members of consumer watchdog’s advisory board. Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fired the agency’s 25-member advisory board, days after some of its members criticized his leadership of the watchdog agency. The CFPB said it will revamp…

06

• Headlines | States ask CFPB to keep complaints database public. Fourteen Democratic state attorneys general are asking the CFPB to keep its consumer complaint database open to the public. State law enforcers risk losing a valuable tool to help “identify patterns of widespread misconduct,” New…

05

• Headlines | Facebook may face fines — again — for potentially mishandling users’ data. Facebook’s arrangements with Amazon.com, Apple, BlackBerry and Samsung allowing their devices to access data from the social network’s users could further expose Facebook to steep fines and other penalties, experts said. The practice — which…
• Headlines | Hooked on your iPhone? At WWDC, Apple finally offers help. Apple is trying to make us love our iPhones a little less. Helping consumers and parents combat addiction and encourage healthier relationships with technology was on Apple’s agenda at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. The biggest…

04

• Press Releases | Groups tell temporary CFPB director: Hands off the public database!. Keep the public consumer complaint database open was the clear message sent by scores of groups to the temporary acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today. Consumer, civil rights, fair lending, privacy,…
• Headlines | Facebook gave device makers access to data on users, friends. As Facebook sought to become the world’s dominant social media service, it struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of its users’ personal information. Facebook has reached data-sharing partnerships with…

May

31

• Headlines | How spies can use your cellphone to eavesdrop on your calls, texts. Surveillance systems that track the locations of cellphone users and spy on their calls, texts and data streams are being turned against Americans as they roam the country and the world, say security experts and U.S.…

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• Headlines | You’ll be able to freeze your credit for free — but that won’t end ID theft. Last week, a new law torched some of the banking rules that were put in place after the financial crisis to protect us. But also tucked into the otherwise awful bill was a win for…

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• Headlines | Hey Alexa, come clean about how much you’re really recording us. We’re learning an important lesson about cutting-edge voice technology: Amazon’s Alexa is always listening. So are Google’s Assistant and Apple’s Siri. These devices are always “awake,” passively listening for the command to activate, such as “Alexa,” “O.K.…

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• Press Releases | If companies can protect user data in Europe, they can protect it everywhere (Advocates release letter urging companies to adopt Europe’s new data protection rules worldwide). Washington, D.C. – U.S. companies should adopt essentially the same data protection rules that are poised to go into effect in the European Union on May 25, Public Citizen, the Center for Digital Democracy and…

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• Headlines | Service meant to monitor inmates’ calls could track you, too. Thousands of jails and prisons across the United States use a company called Securus Technologies to provide and monitor calls to inmates. But the former sheriff of Mississippi County, Mo., used a lesser-known Securus service…
• Headlines | Florida man behind 100 million robocalls hit with huge FCC fine. Issuing its largest fine to date, the Federal Communications Commission levied a $120 million fine on a massive robocall spoofing operation it deemed a threat to public safety. The FCC announced Thursday morning that it would fine…

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• Headlines | Why the Internet is suddenly protesting on net neutrality all over again. The mostly Democratic senators are pushing forward the resolution under what's known as the Congressional Review Act, a law that permits Congress to review — and reject — administrative decisions by federal agencies. In this case, the…
• Headlines | How to prepare your smartphone for traveling this summer. Many travelers are familiar with this scenario: You are finally going on that well-earned vacation. You decide to take your smartphone on the journey. But you run into a host of tech snags after you…

04

• Headlines | Bill purports to strengthen consumer protection. It does the opposite. The White House Office of Management and Budget recently declared its support for legislation called the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act. The bill has been passed by the Senate and is expected…

03

• Headlines | From Hopper, exclusive flight deals sent directly to phones. Hopper, the airfare prediction and booking app, has introduced a feature that it says will offer travelers airfare deals they won’t be able to find on any other booking platform, sent to their phone. Users…
• Headlines | How to prevent a typo from making you an identity theft victim. Scammers love typos. And to capitalize on them, they hijack popular web addresses and cybersquat on URLs that are a typo away from legitimate websites. It’s a scheme called “typosquatting,” and it is intended to…

April

30

• Press Releases | Consumer groups stand up to threats to take complaint database dark (Groups tell acting CFPB director to react after he collects all the facts). Consumer, privacy, civil rights and fair lending groups from across the nation called on temporary, Acting Director Mick Mulvaney today to retain availability of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) complaint tool after recent threats…

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