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2020

January

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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• Headlines | Apple, TikTok draw congressional rebuke for skipping hearing. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  Apple and TikTok took a lashing Tuesday for skipping a congressional hearing meant to explore the tech industry and its ties to China, an absence that threatens to bring sustained political scrutiny of the companies’…

October

24

• Headlines | Facebook takes broad lashing at congressional hearing. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  Congressional lawmakers delivered a broad lashing of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, sniping at his company’s plans to launch a digital currency called Libra, its pockmarked track record on privacy and diversity, and its struggles to…

21

• Headlines | In House antitrust hearing, lawmakers focus on harms to privacy. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  House lawmakers on Friday pressed experts on how the market power of major tech platforms could hurt consumer privacy, showing that an antitrust investigation into Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon is growing to include deeper…

16

• Headlines | Does your toothbrush have an app yet?. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  New technology is creating some excitement in the formerly ho-hum world of dental care.

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10

• Headlines | California law blocks debt collectors from emptying your bank account. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that will prevent debt collectors from emptying Californians’ bank accounts.

  The bill — SB 616 — doesn’t block collectors from draining funds from the account of a…

03

• Headlines | Debunking a credit score myth: Use less than 30% of your credit limit. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  The top two factors that determine your credit score are your payment history and the amount you owe.  If your credit card limit was $1,000, you should limit your purchases to no more than $300.…

02

• Headlines | Appeals court ruling upholds FCC’s canceling of net neutrality rules. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled in favor of the Federal Communications Commission and upheld its repeal of Obama-era net neutrality protections, issuing a mixed decision that also appeared to open the door for…

September

25

• Headlines | A no-internet, just-for-kids cell phone is here. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  Much to our chagrin, it seems like the age where kids get their first cell phone is skewing younger by the day. And while it's important that we're able to reach our children after soccer…

23

• Headlines | Streaming wars scorecard: What to watch and how much it will cost. {/exp:ce_str:ing}

  In the coming months, Disney (DIS), WarnerMedia and Comcast (CCZ)are all launching their own streaming platforms to compete with the likes of Netflix (NFLX) and Amazon (AMZN) — two powerful tech companies that got a…

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