News

2019

August

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• Hi, Alexa. How do I stop you from listening in on me?. Humans help train artificial intelligence, so someone may be listening to what you tell Siri, Google Assistant or Alexa. Here’s what to do if you have a problem with that.

• Major phone service providers agree to plan to slow robocallers. Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and nine other phone service providers reached a deal with 51 attorneys general across the country to install call-blocking technology. But the deal doesn’t have a deadline.

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• El ‘software malicioso’ está en todas partes, incluso en esta pequeña ciudad de Texas. Cuando un ataque de software malicioso llamado ransomware golpeó a Keene, Texas, nadie se dio cuenta.

• Ransomware attacks are testing resolve of cities across America. This has been the summer of crippling ransomware attacks. More than 40 municipalities have been the victims of cyberattacks this year, from major cities such as Baltimore, Albany and Laredo, Tex., to smaller towns including Lake

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• A victim of IDTheft from Brooklyn had been cheated of $7000 and a fake driver ID (Chinese). (本報記者)一名在日落公園居住的華人居民懷疑有不法分子在盜取了他的郵件的同時，還製造了假駕照和假銀行戶口等資料，從而非法地兌現了他近7000元的匯票（money order）。他為此前往布碌崙的亞總會求助。

• Why aren't older people using Lyft and Uber?. Seniors need transportation alternatives more than ever, but many are intimidated by ride-hailing apps.

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• Give the FTC some teeth to guard our privacy. You might think that after the Federal Trade Commission levied a $5 billion fine against Facebook for privacy violations relating to Cambridge Analytica, the agency has great power to protect our privacy on the internet. But

• I shared my phone number. I learned I shouldn't have. Our mobile phone numbers have become permanently attached to us because we rarely change them, porting them from job to job and place to place. In fact, your phone number may have now become an

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• U.S. health panel recommends doctors screen all adults for illicit drug use. An influential group of health experts recommended Tuesday that doctors screen all adults for use of illegal drugs. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said that health providers should attempt to determine whether

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• GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data. About one in four companies revealed personal information to a woman's partner, who had made a bogus demand for the data by citing an EU privacy law.

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• This Social Security scam is just evil. “Evil” is all I can think of to describe the people behind the Social Security scam. It’s especially heinous when you consider that many of the victims are retirees on fixed

• How Facebook is changing to deal with regulator scrutiny. Senator Elizabeth Warren has called for the breakup of big tech companies like Facebook. Regulators have opened investigations into Facebook’s power in social networking. Even one of Facebook’s own founders has

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• Safe deposit boxes aren’t safe. There are an estimated 25 million safe deposit boxes in America, and they operate in a legal gray zone within the highly regulated banking industry. There are no federal laws governing the boxes; no rules require

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• FTC advises consumers on claiming personal liability triggered by Equifax data breach (Chinese). (本報訊)聯盟貿易委員會（FTC）消費者隱私部律師康納（Jacqueline Connor）30日在少數族裔媒體服務機構（Ethnic Media Services）項目主任克羅絲（Sandy Close）的主持下召開少數族裔媒體電話會，就消費者如何在引起多方關注的Equifax個資洩漏案中索賠進行說明。她說為了避免上當受騙，消費者應當盡量使用由貿易委員會提供的官方索賠網站（Ftc.gov/equifax）。

• Advanced use of A.I. in healthcare raises privacy concerns. There is widespread effort to build technology that can automatically diagnose or predict illness and disease, from diabetic blindness to meningitis to cancer. In academia and industry, particularly at companies like Google and DeepMind, researchers

• Don’t count on a big cash payout from Equifax. See the free credit monitoring. Here are the specifics of the credit monitoring option: · For the first four years, you get free monitoring of your credit reports at all three credit bureaus — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. This service

July

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• Have a Capital One credit card? Here's how to protect yourself. If you're worried that last week's Capital One data breach has impacted you, there are steps you can take right now to protect yourself from identity theft and financial loss.

• For big banks, it's an endless fight with hackers. Large financial companies have to thwart hundreds of thousands of cyberattacks every single day. Data thieves have to get lucky only once.

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• A hacker gained access to 100 million Capital One accounts. in one of the biggest-ever data breaches, a hacker gained access to more than 100 million Capital One customers' accounts and credit card applications earlier this year.

• Why doesn’t Facebook help after your account gets hacked?. When Linda’s Facebook account was hacked, she knew exactly what to do: she quickly reset her password, then logged in to assess the damage. Someone had used her account to create a fake