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2020
January
06
- Cómo protegería a los consumidores la nueva ley contra las llamadas automáticas. Los estafadores serían más fáciles de identificar, aunque el número de llamadas podría no disminuir mucho El Congreso está dando a los consumidores m
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- The tech that will invade our lives in 2020. 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 the
- How we survive the surveillance apocalypse. 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
2019
December
28
- La justícia francesa aprueba un plan de seguimiento de redes sociales para combatir la evasión fiscal. El gobierno de Francia puede seguir adelante con los planes para rastrear las redes sociales con el fin de detectar la evasión de impuestos, dictaminó su Tribunal Constitucional el viernes, aunque introdujo
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- Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines. 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
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- Exponen datos de 267 millones de usuarios de Facebook. Un investigador de seguridad ucraniano descubrió una base de datos con los nombres, números de teléfono y los nombres de usuario de más de 267 millones de subscriptores de
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- Twelve million phones, one dataset, zero privacy. 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
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- Investigadores critican software de Inteligencia Artificial que predice emociones. Un destacado grupo de investigadores alarmados por los efectos sociales nocivos de la inteligencia artificial pidió el jueves la prohibición del análisis automatizado de las expresiones faciales en la contrataci
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- Uber’s new loan program could trap drivers in cycles of debt. The company is developing financial services that could force drivers to keep working long past their breaking point.
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- Bank regulators urge 'responsible use' of alternative lending data. 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.
05
- La UE acuerda una línea dura contra las monedas digitales como Libra de Facebook. Las monedas digitales privadas, como Libra de Facebook, no deberían ser permitidas en la Unión Europea hasta que se aborden de manera clara los riesgos que plantean, acordaron el jueves los
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- 190 million Americans shopped Thanksgiving weekend, mostly online. 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 last year,
- Instagram pedirá a usuarios fecha de nacimiento para aumentar seguridad en menores de edad. La red social Instagram anunció que pedirá la fecha de nacimiento a sus nuevos usuarios a partir del miércoles, lo que le permitirá publicar anuncios de alcohol y otros productos
- Preocupaciones sobre privacidad llevan a la gente a cambiar su comportamiento en línea: sondeo. Las preocupaciones sobre la privacidad están llevando a las personas a cambiar su comportamiento en línea, según un sondeo internacional...
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- Holiday scams are heavy on naughty, lacking in nice. 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
November
27
- Cyber Monday is usurping Black Friday, changing retailers' offers. 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
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- Consumer watchdog downplaying a major Obama-era tool. 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
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- Police can keep Ring camera video forever, share with anyone. 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
- Amnistía Internacional: Facebook y Google abusan de derechos. Amnistía Internacional emitió una dura acusación contra las corporaciones de internet dominantes en el mundo, argumentando en un nuevo reporte que Google y Facebook deberían ser obligadas a
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- AT&T to pay $60 million over misleading 'unlimited' data plans. 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
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