Headline News Archive

2018

August

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• Are targeted ads stalking you? Here’s how to make them stop. Online ads have always been annoying, but now they’re worse than ever.

16

• How to block and report spam calls, texts. Unwanted calls and spam texts are annoying, but you can do something about them. Here’s how to block and report them so they

15

• LA to screen transit passengers with body scanners. Los Angeles’s transit agency said Tuesday that it would become the first in the nation to screen its passengers with body scanners as

14

• Google services tracking location data despite privacy settings. Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.

• Banks and retailers are tracking how you type, swipe and tap. When you’re browsing a website and the mouse cursor disappears, it might be a computer glitch — or it might be a deliberate

11

• Why Apple Pay is the highest-rated mobile P2P payment service. Mobile peer-to-peer payment services used on smartphones, tablets—and even smartwatches—have revolutionized on-the-spot money transfers. But what if that money doesn't

10

• Want better customer service? Don’t call. Text.. The biggest shift in customer service since the 1-800 number is underway. Some 20 million businesses now use Facebook Messenger each month to talk with customers.

09

• No, your iPhone isn't eavesdropping on you. In a letter to federal lawmakers, the tech giant insisted that iPhones do not listen to what users are saying and said third-party app developers

08

• China’s influence on digital privacy could be global. China’s digital privacy practices have sounded alarms in the West for years. Recent headlines about China highlight the growing use of facial recognition

• Companies are racing to get your banking data. Facebook’s push to gain access to users' banking data and other sensitive financial information could help make online banking more efficient—or

• Cuestionan técnicas para tener a niños pegados a pantallas. El uso de técnicas psicológicas para mantener a los niños pegados a sus pantallas alarma a expertos que dicen

07

• Online gamers pressured eight-year-old to share mom's information. An eight-year-old Minnesota boy is just one of millions of players obsessed with the video game Fortnite. But for his Lakeville family, the survival video

06

• Facebook negocia con bancos para ampliar servicio al cliente de instituciones financieras. Facebook Inc dijo el lunes que está en negociaciones para profundizar su relación con bancos e instituciones financieras, afirmando que puede ayudar

02

• Locked out of bank account over citizenship questions. To Josh Collins and his wife, Jessica Salazar Collins, something seemed off about the Bank of America mailer. They had each banked with the

• The 'Mulvaney discount': Shrinking fines for law-breaking companies. There’s a hot new trend in Donald Trump’s Washington: the “Mulvaney discount.” After pausing enforcement work when Acting Director

01

• Facebook says it has uncovered another coordinated disinformation operation. Facebook has shut down a sophisticated disinformation operation on its platform that engaged in divisive messaging ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, the company

July

31

• For sale: survey data on millions of high school students. Through their schools, many students in the audience had taken a college-planning questionnaire, called MyCollegeOptions. Others had taken surveys that came with the SAT or

• Air marshalls secretly monitored U.S. passengers. Federal air marshals have for years been quietly monitoring small numbers of U.S. air passengers and reporting on in-flight behavior considered suspicious, even if

• Facebook halla intentos de influir en elecciones de EEUU. Facebook aseguró el martes haber descubierto en sus plataformas intentos “elaborados”, posiblemente vinculados con Rusia, de influir en la política

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• Trump administration talks to Facebook, Google about online privacy rules. The Trump administration is crafting a proposal to protect Web users’ privacy, aiming to blunt global criticism that the absence of strict federal rules

• La lista secreta en los aeropuertos de Estados Unidos. La Administración de Seguridad en el Transporte (TSA) ha creado una nueva lista secreta de vigilancia para monitorear a personas que podrí

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• Amazon’s facial recognition wrongly identifies 28 lawmakers, A.C.L.U. says. Representative John Lewis of Georgia and Representative Bobby L. Rush of Illinois are both Democrats, members of the Congressional Black Caucus and civil rights leaders.

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• U.S. breaks up vast I.R.S phone scam. With stiff sentences for 21 conspirators last week in the United States and a round of indictments in India, the Justice Department says it has broken

24

• IRS debt collection of poor people's tax debts criticized. Private tax collectors acting on the Internal Revenue Service’s behalf have collected tax payments from more than 5,000 poor people in the past year,

• The SIM hijackers. Meet the hackers who flip seized Instagram handles and cryptocurrency in a shady, buzzing underground market for stolen accounts and usernames. Their victims' weakness? Phone