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2021

July

19

• Headlines | iPhone security no match for NSO spyware. Pegasus,the NSO’s signature surveillance tool, can collect emails, call records, social media posts, user passwords, contact lists, pictures, videos, sound recordings and browsing histories, according to security researchers and NSO marketing materials. The spyware can activate…

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• Headlines | 5 tricks to lower your Internet bill. Here are five tricks I learned from Internet service providers and consumer advocates. Try to switch providers. Check the website BroadbandNow to find all the available service providers specific to your Zip code. Buy your…

08

• Headlines | 36 states sue Google over how it manages its Play Store. Thirty-six states, including Utah, New York, North Carolina and Tennessee, as well as the District of Columbia filed an antitrust lawsuit targeting Google’s app store.  It argues that Google maintains a monopoly in the market…

June

22

• Headlines | How Big Tech created a data ‘treasure trove’ for police. When U.S. law enforcement officials need to cast a wide net for information, they’re increasingly turning to the vast digital ponds of personal data created by Big Tech companies via the devices and online services…

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• Headlines | Want a job? Employers say: Talk to the computer. A day after her interview for a part-time job at Target last year, Dana Anthony got an email informing her she didn’t make the cut. Anthony didn’t know why — a situation common to most…

May

18

• Headlines | Rural areas need broadband to get workers. Rural areas have complained for years that slow, unreliable or simply unavailable internet access is restricting their economic growth. But the pandemic has given new urgency to those concerns, at the same time that President…

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• Headlines | Verizon is using a government discount to force you onto a new data plan. The government has a new program to help Americans pay their Internet bills. Unfortunately, companies like Verizon are twisting it into an opportunity for an upsell. Last week, I wrote about the arrival of the…

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• Headlines | The government wants to pay your Internet bill for a few months. The Emergency Broadband Benefit, or EBB, was launched to help a surprisingly wide range of people hit economically by the coronavirus pandemic. It can pay $50 every month toward the cost of your Internet service,…

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• Headlines | How to apply for a $50 discount on your broadband bill. The Emergency Broadband Benefit provides a discount of up to $50 a month toward broadband service for eligible households and up to $75 a month for households on qualifying tribal lands. You qualify for the…

03

• Headlines | How big tech got so big: Hundreds of acquisitions. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google gobbled up their competition to become behemoths of the tech industry, which has drawn attention from Congressional leaders and critics who claim they’ve stifled innovation in the industry.

April

28

• Headlines | Tech firms like Facebook, Neurable want to link your brain to computers. Already, brain tech allows players to manipulate avatars in video games by concentrating on parts of the screen. And Facebook last month revealed plans to interpret your intent to move a finger to trigger digital…

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• Headlines | Facebook calls for data portability; expands info users can transfer off service. Facebook announced Monday it’s expanding a tool that allows users to transfer their data to other services. The social media giant will now enable users to transfer a copy of their written posts and notes…
• Headlines | Wall Street banks brace for digital dollars as next big disruptive force. Wall Street is warming up to the idea that the next big disruptive force on the horizon is central bank digital currencies, even though the Federal Reserve likely remains a few years away from developing…
• News Video | We’ve reached a global tipping point for reining in tech. Around the world, governments are moving simultaneously to limit the power of tech companies with an urgency and breadth that no single industry had experienced before. Their motivation varies. In the United States and Europe,…

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• Headlines | Facebook leak exposes personal data on half a billion users. Telephone numbers were just the top layer of what was stolen. Security researcher Alon Gal detailed that a person’s Facebook ID, full name, location, past location, birthdate, email address, account creation date, relationship status, and…

March

25

• Headlines | CFPB’s new team has a message for banks it regulates: We’re back. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is already sending a message that it’s getting tougher. On-site examinations are up, banking executives tell consultants. Big banks aren’t the only businesses likely to get more attention. Groshans sees…

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• Headlines | AT&T’s new arbitration clause isn’t doing you any favors. Go ahead and agree to AT&T’s new arbitration clause if you want (or if you have no choice). But don’t think the company is doing you any favors. Arbitration is a private, nonjudicial system that…

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• Headlines | Social Security imposters use fake badges to fool victims. The Social Security Administration warns that phone scammers are creating “fake versions” of identification badges. “The scammers will text or email photos of the fake badges to convince potential victims of their legitimacy.” The Social…

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• Headlines | Coronavirus relief could net you $50 toward your broadband bill. A new bill, The Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act, set to be introduced Thursday in the U.S. House and Senate, devotes more than $94 billion to connect currently unserved and underserved communities with affordable high-speed…

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• Headlines | 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 struggle. Along comes Amazon’s new Echo Show 10, a countertop camera and computer…

February

27

• Headlines | 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 while pursuing immigration violations, according to public documents uncovered by Georgetown…

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• Headlines | California can enforce its internet equal access law. A federal judge ruled that California can for the first time enforce its tough net neutrality law, clearing the way for the state to ban internet providers from slowing down or blocking access to websites…

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• Headlines | 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 federal funds from being used by state and local…

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• Headlines | How the GameStop frenzy sabotaged a bid to ‘democratize’ finance. The episode with Robinhood Financial has unearthed a growing sentiment on the left: “Fintech” is just a fancy word for everything they already hate about finance.

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• Headlines | Lacking a Lifeline: How help to pay low-income Americans’ phone bills failed. The coronavirus has reinforced the Internet as the fabric of modern American life, a luxury-turned-necessity for a generation now forced to work, learn and communicate primarily through the Web. But it also has laid bare…

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