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2018

April

17

• News Video | Asians love digital banking, Americans not so much. If you want to see what your relationship with your bank will look like in a few years, look to the East. Consumers in Asia are rapidly using mobile banking for more services, making visits…

12

• Headlines | Mulvaney leading Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over a cliff. Accounts of the slow death of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are not exaggerations. In his just released report to Congress, the agency’s acting director, Mick Mulvaney, was clear about his mission. “The bureau is…
• Headlines | I downloaded the information Facebook has on me. Yikes.. There was so much that Facebook knew about me — more than I wanted to know. But after looking at the totality of what the Silicon Valley company had obtained about yours truly, I decided…
• Headlines | Facebook is now in the data-privacy spotlight. Could Google be next?. The quiet fear among the nation's tech elite, though, has been that extra attention on Facebook will reflect on everyone — Google, perhaps, most of all. The titan of search, smartphones and Web browsing makes…
• Headlines | Those stickers warning that repairs will void your warranty are nonsense.  If worries about voiding your warranty have ever kept you from trying to repair your own electronics, or from visiting the cheap repair shop on the corner, the government has good news for you. The Federal Trade…

06

• Headlines | New FCC policy would be a ‘death sentence’ for Puerto Ricans. A new rule championed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai would limit internet and phone access for millions of low-income and elderly Americans. 

04

• Headlines | Mulvaney, Consumer Bureau’s chief, urges Congress to cripple agency. Mr. Mulvaney, a longtime and unapologetic critic of the financial crisis-era bureau, has spent the last several months freezing its enforcement activities, dropping cases on payday lenders and shutting out career staff from major decisions.…

March

29

• Headlines | Are mobile payments tricking you into leaving a larger tip?. I hadn’t really thought about the subtle ways companies are trying to encourage consumers to give larger tips. I tip what is customary and fair  — often ignoring preselected percentages, which in some cases are…
• Headlines | Facebook cuts ties to data brokers in blow to targeted ads. Facebook Inc said it would end its partnerships with several large data brokers who help advertisers target people on the social network, a step that follows a scandal over how Facebook handles personal information. Facebook…

28

• Headlines | Facebook introduces central page for privacy and security settings. Facebook said it will roll out a centralized system for its users to control their privacy and security settings in response to an outcry over the way it has handled personal data. The system, which…

22

• Headlines | The scary truth that Cambridge Analytica understands. Cambridge Analytica, a London-based data firm that sold its services to political campaigns, has been thrust into the spotlight this week thanks to a number of startling exposés. Undercover footage, along with testimony and evidence…

21

• Headlines | AT&T-Time Warner: How the biggest antitrust trial in years could play out. The Justice Department’s case to block AT&T and Time Warner’s $85 billion blockbuster merger heads to trial this week.  The deal, if approved, would create a media giant that combines AT&T’s nationwide mobile and satellite…
• Headlines | Facebook faces growing pressure over data and privacy inquiries. Federal regulators and state prosecutors are opening investigations into Facebook. Politicians in the United States and Europe are calling for its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, to testify before them. Investors have cut the value of…

20

• Headlines | Facebook under fire for data leaks via apps. Facebook last week suspended the Trump campaign’s data consultant, Cambridge Analytica, for scraping the data of potentially millions of users without their consent.

15

• Headlines | Apple, Google take reputation ding among consumers. Consumers have lost some faith in Apple and Google products, according to an annual survey that looks at how average Americans view the 100 most talked-about brands. Overall, Amazon took the top spot for the third…

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• Headlines | Why consumers are increasingly trading privacy for convenience. Consumers have long exchanged data for services they find valuable, like email addresses or location for free WiFi and social media profiles for easier site logins, but they are starting to let platforms into their…

08

• Headlines | How to monitor cellular data use for apps. Third-party apps often use easy-to-read graphics to break down your phone’s cellular data consumption so you can see just which programs are burning through your bytes. Data Usage for Android and iOS as well as…

07

• Headlines | Your data Is crucial to a robotic age. Shouldn’t you be paid for it?. The idea is gaining momentum in Silicon Valley and beyond: Facebook and the other technological Goliaths offering free online services — from which they harvest data from and about their users — should pay for…

03

• Headlines | NAACP sues Capital One Bank, alleging discrimination in banking services. Two Houston civil rights groups have sued the financial services company Capital One, alleging that it has discriminated against blacks and Latinos by closing more than half its banking offices in minority neighborhoods while adding…

February

23

• Headlines | Net neutrality rules are finally official. Here’s what happens now. The next few weeks will see a frenzy of activity with opponents of the rule finally free to act.

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• Headlines | In an era of ‘smart’ things, sometimes dumb stuff is better. Before we get carried away setting up the Wi-Fi connections on all our appliances, lights and fashion accessories, let me play Luddite for a second. Some of the most mundane devices are designed to accomplish…

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• Headlines | Mick Mulvaney’s destroying the CFPB — and that’s just what Trump wants. Mick Mulvaney warned us that it was coming. After all, in 2014 he called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the independent government agency he now temporarily heads, a "sick, sad joke." Three years later, Mulvaney was…

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• Headlines | Microsoft is trying to kill passwords. Microsoft Corp. is trying to kill the password, and it's about time. This month, the company said the next test version of its stripped-down Windows 10 S operating system will strip out passwords too, by…

07

• Headlines | Apple explores the possibility of a rebate over battery issue. Apple is considering giving rebates to iPhone owners who bought batteries to improve the performance of their phones before a price cut, according to a letter the firm sent to Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the chairman…

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• Press Releases | Consumer advocates argue for a strong, independent CFPB (Agency’s independence is necessary to its mission, groups tell Appellate court). For Immediate Release: Feb. 6, 2018 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) independence from external political influence is crucial to the agency’s mission of protecting consumers, 10 groups told a court…

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