News
2018
May
07
- Google lanza Android Things para electrodomésticos tras tibio recibimiento de derivados previos. Google, de Alphabet Inc, lanzó el lunes un derivado de su sistema operativo Android para electrodomésticos y otras máquinas, tras resultados dispares de derivados de Android para automóviles, relojes inteligentes y televisores.
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- Bill purports to strengthen consumer protection. It does the opposite. The White House Office of Management and Budget recently declared its support for legislation called the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act. The bill has been passed by the Senate and is expected…
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- We need more, not fewer, government Yelps. Criticism of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting director Mick Mulvaney’s recent comments to a banking group has largely focused on his advocating a pay-to-play system for interest groups to access government officials. But similarly disappointing…
- From Hopper, exclusive flight deals sent directly to phones. Hopper, the airfare prediction and booking app, has introduced a feature that it says will offer travelers airfare deals they won’t be able to find on any other booking platform, sent to their phone. Users…
- How to prevent a typo from making you an identity theft victim. Scammers love typos. And to capitalize on them, they hijack popular web addresses and cybersquat on URLs that are a typo away from legitimate websites. It’s a scheme called “typosquatting,” and it is intended to…
02
- Cambridge Analytica se declara en quiebra. La empresa británica de análisis de datos que estuvo involucrada en el escándalo de privacidad de Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, se declaró el miércoles en quiebra e informó que cerrará operaciones.
April
30
- Consumer groups stand up to threats to take complaint database dark (Groups tell acting CFPB director to react after he collects all the facts). Consumer, privacy, civil rights and fair lending groups from across the nation called on temporary, Acting Director Mick Mulvaney today to retain availability of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) complaint tool after recent threats…
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- The consumer complaints database that could disappear from view. When a consumer has a complaint about a bank, whether it's dealing with a mortgage or a credit card, right now there's a place to lodge that complaint online. It's easy to click around and…
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- How to protect your children from identity theft. When identity theft hits adults, it can be a long and frustrating battle to restore their good name. But imagine the confusion that ensues when a young adult tries to get a credit card for the…
- Mulvaney, watchdog's leader, advises bankers on ways to curtail agency. Mick Mulvaney, the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told banking industry executives that they should press lawmakers hard to pursue their agenda, and revealed that, as a congressman, he would meet only…
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- 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…
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- Comcast sumará Netflix a sus paquetes de TV por cable en EEUU. Comcast Corp, proveedor líder de televisión por cable en Estados Unidos, ofrecerá nuevos paquetes con abonos al servicio de películas y series de Netflix Inc incluidos, anunciaron el viernes las compañías.
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- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Juez de EEUU dice conductores de Uber no son empleados de la compañía. Un juez estadounidense de Filadelfia dictaminó que los choferes de un servicio de Uber Technologies Inc son contratistas independientes y no empleados de la compañía de acuerdo a las leyes federales, el primer fallo de…
- Uber anuncia nuevas medidas de seguridad. Uber comenzará a realizar verificaciones anuales de antecedentes delictivos a sus choferes en Estados Unidos y contratar a una compañía que monitorea constantemente arrestos, como parte de esfuerzos para mejorar la seguridad de sus pasajeros.
- Esto es todo lo que Facebook guarda sobre ti. Cuando descargué una copia de los datos de mi cuenta de Facebook, nunca esperé ver tanto. Mi perfil no es muy abarcador; prácticamente no publico en el sitio ni le doy clic a los anuncios.…
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- Zuckerberg evidencia brecha generacional con legisladores. El director general de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, enfrentó el martes y el miércoles interrogatorios por parte de diversas comisiones del Senado y de la Cámara de Representantes para abordar los problemas de privacidad que aquejan…
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