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2020

April

09

• Headlines | Gig workers’ new unemployment benefits won’t come quickly. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  The $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill makes contractors eligible for unemployment insurance. But states want pay stubs that ride-hail drivers don't have.

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March

16

• Headlines | To track coronavirus, Israel moves to tap secret cellphone data. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has authorized the country’s internal security agency to tap into a vast and previously undisclosed trove of cellphone data to retrace the movements of people who have contracted the…

February

13

• Headlines | What the T-Mobile and Sprint merger means for you. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  Is my phone bill going up? T-Mobile promised phone bills will remain the same for the next three years. 

  Will my phone still be compatible? T-Mobile has a wide coverage map, potentially improving calls for…

12

• Headlines | Judge approves T-Mobile-Sprint merger. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  The deal would combine America’s third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers, creating a telecommunications juggernaut able to challenge AT&T and Verizon.

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January

30

• Headlines | Forced arbitration: A clause for concern. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  Whether you realize it or not, chances are you have agreed to arbitration on dozens of occasions, forfeiting your right to take problems—even serious ones—with a product or service to court. Arbitration clauses have spread…

• Headlines | New rules gutting consumer watchdog from the inside. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  A new enforcement policy at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the most recent example of an agency drifting away from its mission to police Wall Street’s bad actors, advocates say.

  The CFPB announced that…

29

• Headlines | Facebook will now show you exactly how it stalks you. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  The new ‘Off-Facebook Activity’ tool reminds us we’re living in a reality TV program where the cameras are always on. Here are the privacy settings to change right now.

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• Headlines | USDOJ accuses U.S. companies of being complicit in foreign scams. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal court for restraining orders against three home-based operators of telecommunications companies who, authorities allege, patched hundreds of millions of foreign-based robocalls into the United States.

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23

• Headlines | New York City to force stores to accept cash. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  From a cup of coffee to a car ride, mobile devices or plastic cards are becoming the preferred, and sometimes exclusive, methods of payment.

  The City Council is set to approve legislation that would prohibit…

15

• Headlines | How to navigate a flood of streaming TV subscriptions. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  We wanted à la carte television, and now we have it—and it costs more than cable. Here’s how to watch your favorite shows without overpaying for a dozen apps.

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13

• Headlines | ‘Techlash’ hits college campuses. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  College seniors and recent graduates looking for jobs that are both principled and high-paying are doing so in a world that has soured on Big Tech. The positive perceptions of Google, Facebook and other large…

10

• Headlines | Uber changes its app to comply with gig worker law. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  Uber Technologies Inc. made changes to its ride-hailing app in California, tweaking fares and features to respond to a new state law designed to reclassify gig economy workers as employees.

  Changes for passengers include a…

09

• Headlines | California to unveil plan for consumer financial watchdog agency. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  After years of the Trump administration steadily rolling back federal consumer financial protections, California has decided enough is enough. 

  Details at this point are scant. But it appears what California is trying to do is…

07

• Headlines | Hidden costs found in delivered food menu prices. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  If you use food delivery services, you know there are a lot of added costs you pay for the convenience. But did you know in many cases, you also pay more for the food itself?

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02

• Headlines | The tech that will invade our lives in 2020. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  Amazon, Apple and Google announced that they were working together on a standard to help make smart home products compatible with one another.

  In 2020, 5G will gain some momentum. Verizon said it expected half…

• Headlines | How we survive the surveillance apocalypse. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  There are lots of ways your data can, and will, be used against you. When we’re sick, we go to a doctor. To keep our computers safe, we install anti-virus software. Why not have professionals…

2019

December

26

• Headlines | Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  When Syracuse University freshmen walk into professor Jeff Rubin’s Information Technologies class, seven small Bluetooth beacons hidden around the lecture hall connect with an app on their smartphones and boost their “attendance points.”

  And when…

19

• Headlines | Twelve million phones, one dataset, zero privacy. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information…

06

• Headlines | Bank regulators urge ‘responsible use’ of alternative lending data. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  Lenders and regulators are looking at how data beyond a basic credit score could be used to improve underwriting practices, for example by analyzing bank accounts, utility bills, level of education and employer information.

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04

• Headlines | 190 million Americans shopped Thanksgiving weekend, mostly online. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  A record 189.6 million Americans went shopping over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, the National Retail Federation said Tuesday, and most of them did their spending online. The new bar represents a 14 percent increase from…

02

• Headlines | Holiday scams are heavy on naughty, lacking in nice. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  It’s the most wonderful time of the year. But for consumers, it’s also the most dangerous. From gift card rackets to online fraud, consumers are under near-constant assault amid what some analysts are calling the…

November

27

• Headlines | Cyber Monday is usurping Black Friday, changing retailers’ offers. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  While many brands lock in their Black Friday plans months in advance—and commit to print ads and television spots promoting their predetermined doorbuster deals—Cyber Monday has become a game of fluid decisions and fast-changing strategies.

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23

• Headlines | Consumer watchdog downplaying a major Obama-era tool. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  The director of the country’s primary consumer watchdog, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), downplayed the role of the complaint database in its operations and even its utility as a major tool at its disposal.

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20

• Headlines | Police can keep Ring camera video forever, share with anyone. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  Police officers who download videos captured by homeowners’ Ring doorbell cameras can keep them forever and share them with whomever they’d like without providing evidence of a crime, the Amazon-owned firm told a lawmaker this…

06

• Headlines | AT&T to pay $60 million over misleading ‘unlimited’ data plans. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  AT&T agreed to a $60 million settlement over allegations it misled more than 3.5 million customers by charging them for "unlimited" data plans while reducing their data speeds when their usage exceeded a certain amount.

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