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2018
June
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- Firefox busca diferenciarse por la privacidad. ¿Alguna vez has tenido la sensación de que el internet ya no funciona como debe? Cuando buscas comprar un tostador en línea, lo más seguro es que haya
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- More than 1 million children were victims of ID theft last year. We think of identity theft as an “adult” problem, but no one is immune from this crime. More than 1 million children in the U.S. were ID theft victims last year, resulting in
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- For a day, I was one of the millions of Americans without a bank account. I was participating in a sort of financial scavenger hunt that aims to replicate how life works for the millions of Americans — about a quarter of all households — who either don’t
- How a few people took Equifax to court over Its data breach and won. Christina Bernstein’s check finally arrived last week: $7,440 from Equifax for her trouble. She was one of more than 145 million Americans whose financial information was exposed in the company’s huge data breach
- Is there a smarter path to artificial intelligence?. For the past five years, the hottest thing in artificial intelligence has been a branch known as deep learning. The grandly named statistical technique, put simply, gives computers a way to learn by processing vast
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- iPhones will automatically share location when people dial 911. Your iPhone will soon be able to share your location data automatically if you ever have to call 911, Apple Inc. announced Monday. The feature is designed to give first responders faster and more accurate information,
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- Credit freezes will soon be free for everyone. Starting this fall, the big three credit reporting agencies — Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion — will be required to let you freeze your credit file for free. A freeze can help prevent identity thieves from
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- Apple ending apps’ ability to secretly sell your contacts list. Apple's recently updated policy for developers on its App Store now prohibits apps from selling information collected from your address book to other people. The changes, which were first reported by Bloomberg
- Apple making it harder for police to collect evidence from iPhones. Apple announced that it would block access to a port that law enforcement uses to break into iPhones during criminal investigations, a move that could reignite debate over whether tech companies are doing enough to
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- AT&T wins: Judge clears $85 billion bid for Time Warner with no conditions. A federal judge said Tuesday that AT&T's $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner is legal, clearing the path for a deal that gives the pay-TV provider ownership of cable channels such as HBO
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- Facebook permitirá que los usuarios escriban reseñas sobre los anunciantes. Facebook Inc dijo el martes que permitiría a los usuarios reseñar las empresas que anuncian en la red social y posiblemente prohibir...
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- Why did the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fire us?. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is being gutted from the inside out. Created in 2010 after the Great Recession, during which the typical American household lost one-third of its wealth, the bureau was established to put
- Trump's consumer agency chief looks to shut down complaint database. The Trump administration may shut down a federal database of consumer complaints about the financial-services industry. Banks think that’s a swell idea. “In what world does it make sense to give consumers
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- Protecting privacy is a civil rights issue. Sweeping privacy violations have the strange effect of revealing that the tracking of consumers by marketers affects everyone while hiding how that tracking hurts some people far more than others. People who value their privacy
- More than half of U.S. households have ditched landline phones. More than half of U.S. households — 53.9% — rely entirely on cellphones, according to a survey from the National Center for Health Statistics, an arm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There
- Mulvaney fires all 25 members of consumer watchdog’s advisory board. Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fired the agency’s 25-member advisory board, days after some of its members criticized his leadership of the watchdog agency. The CFPB said it
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- States ask CFPB to keep complaints database public. Fourteen Democratic state attorneys general are asking the CFPB to keep its consumer complaint database open to the public. State law enforcers risk losing a valuable tool to help “identify patterns of widespread misconduct,
- Legisladores EEUU presionan a Facebook por compartir datos. Dos legisladores de Estados Unidos reprendieron el miércoles a Facebook Inc por no ser más transparente sobre sus prácticas de intercambio de datos luego de que la firma dijera
- Facebook financiará programas noticiosos originales. Facebook financiará programas noticiosos originales a ser creados por medios noticiosos como ABC, CNN y Mic, informó la empresa el miércoles.
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- Facebook may face fines — again — for potentially mishandling users’ data. Facebook’s arrangements with Amazon.com, Apple, BlackBerry and Samsung allowing their devices to access data from the social network’s users could further expose Facebook to steep fines and other penalties, experts
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