News
2021
February
11
- Tips on how to master the vaccine-appointment website. Starting this week, there will be even more places you need to look for appointments online. Pharmacy chains including CVS and Walgreens are beginning to distribute vaccine supply they’re getting directly from the
10
- App de audio Clubhouse llama la atención de CEOs y usuarios. La aplicación de audio Clubhouse fue lanzada hace menos de un año y ya ha llamado la atención de peces gordos de la industria tecnológica e incluso
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- Consumer protection agency investigating Venmo. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is investigating money transfer app Venmo over the way it handles collections, a new regulatory filing shows. First reported by The Wall Street Journal, the filing shows Venmo owner PayPal
- Koji, la herramienta que ayuda a vender productos y servicios a los seguidores en redes sociales. Koji ofrece plantillas personalizables para interfaces de venta, recaudación de fondos y juegos que pueden publicarse fácilmente en las redes sociales.
January
30
- Apple’s new privacy ‘nutrition labels.’ Many were false.. You go to your iPhone’s App Store to download a game. Under a new “App Privacy” label added last month, there’s a blue check mark, signaling that the app
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- ‘Es una locura’: los pequeños inversionistas conmocionan a Wall Street con las acciones de GameStop. Las acciones de las tiendas de videojuegos se han disparado 1700 por ciento mientras millones de pequeños inversionistas, incitados por las redes sociales, emplean una táctica clásica de Wall Street
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- CFPB emerges from Trump storm battered but intact. The federal government is filled with anonymous civil servants who spent the past four years keeping their heads down and doing their jobs while trying to prevent Donald Trump’s appointees from subverting their
- Pressure builds to revive net neutrality rules. For more than two decades, Democrats and Republicans have warred over net neutrality, the idea that Internet providers should treat all Web traffic equally. At a time when the pandemic has forced Americans to learn
- Gamestop: una locura bursátil en cuatro claves. ¿Quieres comprender qué está pasando con el minorista de videojuegos que causa furor en la bolsa? Tal vez esto ayude.
- Panel anula decisiones de Facebook de eliminar contenidos. Una junta de supervisión cuasi independiente de Facebook emitió sus primeros fallos el jueves...
- Telegram y el desafío de la extrema derecha. Luego de que Facebook y Twitter extremaron sus medidas contra la desinformación, grandes cantidades de extremistas y teóricos de la conspiración se refugiaron en la aplicación, que
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- Apple aconseja actualizar dispositivos de inmediato. Apple aconsejó el miércoles a los usuarios de iPhone y iPad actualizar sus dispositivos de inmediato para corregir fallas de seguridad que pudieran ser “explotadas activamente” por hackers.
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- New debt collection rule is a mixed bag for consumer rights. Bad news: New debt collection rule permits unlimited electronic access to consumers. Good news: It may eliminate "debt parking" by forcing debt collectors to reach consumers before posting debts on their credit reports.
- Black Americans suffered the most under Trump-era CFPB, study finds. The paper, from two Boston College researchers, tracked consumer complaints, and the follow-ups recorded by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Their findings show that in January 2017 — even before President Trump made any changes
- Consumer bureau director resigns at Biden's request. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Kathy Kraninger resigned at the request of the newly sworn-in President Biden, clearing the way for his nominee to lead the powerful regulatory agency. Kraninger’s resignation gives
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- How to make data privacy real. We need control over how our data is used. Thanks to California, there’s a promising new path.
- ‘A veces actúan demasiado tarde’: cuestionan a Facebook y Twitter por su inacción ante los abusos. Los grupos y activistas de derechos humanos llevan años instando a las empresas a hacer más para eliminar el contenido que fomenta la violencia en diversas partes del mundo.
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- Biden choices for CFPB, SEC pivot to robust enforcement. President-elect Joe Biden is set to nominate Rohit Chopra, the former student loan ombudsman for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to lead the consumer finance agency. Biden will tap Gary Gensler, the former chairman of
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- Millions flock to Telegram and Signal apps. Over the past week, tens of millions of people have downloaded Signal and Telegram, making them the two hottest apps in the world. Signal allows messages to be sent with “end-to-end encryption,” meaning
- Ford is researching tech for bikes, e-scooters to ‘talk’ to cars. If bicycles and e-scooters could “talk” to cars on the road, riders would be safer — at least in theory. That’s the idea behind a consortium of bike and scooter manufacturers
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