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2019

March

21

• 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 the government in general. But fake IRS calls aren’t the…

• 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 that Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook are facing in…

14

• 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 pair of new reports.

  Overall enforcement activity has fallen 80 percent…

11

• 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 also announced the show had set up a protest campaign to…

07

• 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 their latest attempt to countermand the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission.

  …

04

• 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 big tech platforms like Facebook and Google are elephant poachers,…

February

28

• 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 service by building the architecture in space, allowing the billions…

27

• 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 could bring heightened attention to some of Silicon Valley’s controversial…

26

• 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 least where smartphones are concerned — you have one, too.

  …

22

• 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 may not stop a lot of them.

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21

• 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 revolution, most Americans prefer to get their important notices by…

20

• 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, according to researchers at the technology company Oracle.

  The code,…

11

• 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. Her used sedan had been repossessed by the bank a…

07

• 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, and any call that hides its number will be rejected.

  …
• 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 their parents’ credit card accounts while they are playing. It…

January

31

• 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 consumers.

  The dispute centers over Facebook’s once-secret effort to pay…

30

• 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 reward program and boasts about the safety of its products.

  …

24

• 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 your credit rating.

  If you know you can’t make your…

• 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 choose “environmentally friendly” paperless billing.  But many people are not…

17

• 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 caller identification information to disguise the caller’s true identity.

  Led…

15

• 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 than 2,600 people by the non-profit Consumer Action.

  Up to…

12

• 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 in the wrong hands. AT&T’s announcement goes much further, pledging…

11

• 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.

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10

• 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 — have led to renewed calls for the regulation of the…

03

• 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 for new mothers and even fathers as companies try to…

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