Headline News Archive
2018
October
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- FCC says Hurricane Michael victims deserve a month of free cell service. The Federal Communications Commission slammed the nation’s wireless carriers Tuesday for failing to quickly restore service to Hurricane Michael victims — and demanded
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- Cybersecurity experts support data beach disclosure law. A slight majority of digital security experts surveyed by the Washington Post's cybersecurity team say the United States should follow in the
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- Financial companies rack up complaints, but good luck finding them. A NerdWallet analysis of previously undisclosed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau data shows that Green Dot, a dominant prepaid card company, and Credit One, a leading
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- Children’s allowances: Debit cards linked to parents’ phones. Parents can now choose from a rapidly expanding menu of prepaid debit cards, aimed at giving them digital oversight of their children’s spending
- Experian credit freeze flaw may have revealed your PIN to fraudsters. The credit bureau’s process to retrieve a PIN that safeguards a frozen Experian credit report had a security defect, making it easier for
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- It's better for companies to be transparent about privacy bugs. Consumers and regulators have shown they will judge companies far more harshly for covering up data security issues than for openly discussing them. Google just
- The future is creepy when everything becomes a computer. In recent years, the tech industry’s largest powers set their sights on a new target for digital conquest. They promised wild conveniences and
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- 3 out of 4 Americans share Netflix, Amazon, Uber accounts. Altogether, 74 percent of Americans are sharing streaming, shopping and mobile accounts such as Netflix, Hulu, Uber, Spotify and Amazon Prime with their family, friends and
- Worried your Facebook account has been cloned?. Facebook users are being duped into thinking that their accounts have been cloned thanks to a viral message that made the rounds of the social
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- New tool for FAFSA completion. Advocates hope new myStudentAid mobile app will mean more applicants finish the FAFSA.
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- Facebook hack puts thousands of other sites at risk. When Mark Zuckerberg introduced an online tool called Facebook Connect in 2008, he hailed it as a kind of digital passport to the rest of the
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- Trump administration suing California over new net neutrality law. The Trump administration said Sunday it will sue California in an effort to block what some experts have described as the toughest net neutrality law
September
29
- Consumer bureau official blasts colleague over blog dismissing racism. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) official in charge of fair lending is pulling her support for a top agency aide over blog posts
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- California probes links between high-cost lenders and consumer sites. California's Department of Business Oversight sent letters to 20 high-interest lenders, asking about their use of so-called lead generators — companies that operate websites connecting
- Telemarketer made 21 million robocalls in 3 months. The Federal Communications Commission imposed an $82 million fine against a telemarketer who made more than 21 million unsolicited calls to consumers to try to sell health
- Kavanaugh, recordatorio del costo de los deslices juveniles. El revuelo en torno a la conducta del candidato de Donald Trump a la Corte Suprema Brett Kavanaugh durante la adolescencia en la dé
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- US attorneys general discuss social media privacy concerns. A meeting between top state law enforcement officials and Attorney General Jeff Sessions about how the government can safeguard the privacy of social media users
- Uber acuerda pagar 148 millones de dólares por robo de datos. Uber acordó pagar 148 millones de dólares y prometió fortalecer su protección de datos, luego de que la compañ
- Crece el rechazo a Airbnb en París; la empresa se defiende. Los primeros huéspedes en el estudio en la planta baja alquilado a través de Airbnb fueron inocuos: era una familia de
- Facebook y Google se comprometen a combatir las noticias falsas. Facebook, Google y otras empresas de internet se comprometieron a aplicar medidas voluntarias para combatir las noticias falsas ante la preocupación de que
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- Future of 5G mobile data could hinge on a battle over utility pole fees. Mobile carriers such as AT&T and Verizon are in a race to build brand-new data networks that can deliver ultrafast downloads and support
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- Otras opciones para no pagar 1.100 dólares por un iPhone. Muchos quedaron sorprendidos cuando Apple anunció la semana pasada que su más reciente iPhone tendría un precio de 1.100 dó
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- This company is helping parents track their children. Designed for family members, a new app called “Mom I Am Ok” will launch this month and allow parents to set agreed-upon &ldquo
- Nearly half of cellphone calls will be scams by 2019. Nearly half of all cellphone calls next year will come from scammers, according to First Orion, a company that provides phone carriers and their customers
- Comisaria de UE se impacienta con Facebook por uso de datos. La encargada de proteger al consumidor en la Unión Europea dijo el jueves que se está impacientando con la falta de acci
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