Headline News Archive

2021

April

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• Big tech Is pushing states to pass privacy laws. Yes, be suspicious. The Markup found industry fingerprints on at least five bills around the country—weak laws, experts say, that are designed to preempt stronger privacy

• Facebook is urged to scrap plans for an Instagram for children. An international coalition of 35 children’s and consumer groups called on Instagram to scrap its plans to develop a version of the popular photo-sharing

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• ¿Qué son los pasaportes de vacunas, y por qué algunos los detestan tanto?. En lo que respecta a los documentos emitidos por el gobierno, la “Tarjeta de registro de vacunación por COVID-19” es tan

• Columna: ¿Por qué una empresa invertiría millones para comprar Ancestry, si no le interesan los datos de ADN de sus usuarios?. Shirley Ruge está fascinada desde hace mucho tiempo por su árbol genealógico. En un momento, explorarlo significó pasar infinidad de

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• As variants surge, patchwork surveillance efforts ramp up. The nation dramatically stepped up its surveillance for coronavirus variants in recent weeks, but experts say there’s much further to go if the

• The U.S. government’s new $30 million effort to stop pandemic scams. Under the American Rescue Plan, signed by Biden on March 11, $24 million went to fund full-time employees at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to address unfair

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• Facebook leak exposes personal data on half a billion users. Telephone numbers were just the top layer of what was stolen. Security researcher Alon Gal detailed that a person’s Facebook ID, full name,

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• Online scammers traffic in fake COVID vaccination cards. Fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards are being sold online, and authorities have warned individuals not to buy or make one — which is illegal. The FBI

• 533 million Facebook users’ personal information exposed online. Personal information on more than 500 million Facebook users — previously leaked and now made more widely available — was shared online Saturday, according to the

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• Advocates urge FTC to get tough on Google to protect kids' privacy. Two advocacy groups want the Federal Trade Commission to take a tougher stance against Google, accusing its app store of recommending

March

30

• What happens when ICE asks Google for your user information. You’re scrolling through your Gmail inbox and see an email with a strange subject line: A string of numbers followed by “Notification

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• 'Vaccine passports' are on the way. The effort has gained momentum with a growing number of companies saying they will require proof of vaccination before opening again.

• Anyone with a cell phone can now make deepfakes. Deepfake generators Wombo, MyHeritage and Avatarify are booming without many guardrails. We're not ready for what could happen next.

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• Gatekeepers: These tech firms control what’s allowed online. A bunch of companies, stacked on top of each other like layers in a cake, operate the pipes and services that keep the Internet running. 1.

• CFPB’s new team has a message for banks it regulates: We’re back. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is already sending a message that it’s getting tougher. On-site examinations are up, banking executives tell consultants. Big

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• Biden to reassert consumer watchdog agency sidelined by Trump. Biden's administration has pinpointed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a tool to help deliver on promises to address systemic racial inequality.

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• Hackers roban contraseñas de Netflix para quedarse con los datos de pago. Las claves de los servicios de streaming no suelen ser muy seguras, y al sacar tus datos de pago, los piratas informáticos podr

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• ¿Compartes tu contraseña de Netflix? Esto te interesa. La compañía dijo que estaba probando una función con un número limitado de usuarios, una medida que parece

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• Amazon is selling its health-care service to other companies. Amazon Care allows employees and their families to text or video chat with health-care providers, usually within 60 seconds of their request, and in some cases,

• Your face is not your own. An investigator ran the face through an unusual new facial-recognition app she had just started using, called Clearview AI. The team behind it had scraped

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• Nest Hub de Google monitorea el sueño del usuario. Google lanzó un dispositivo que monitoreará cuánto duerme el usuario, una novedad que ayudaría a quienes tienen problemas para

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• Who Is making sure the A.I. machines aren’t racist?. When Google forced out two well-known artificial intelligence experts, a long-simmering research controversy burst into the open.  In the nearly 10 years I’ve

• Social Security imposters use fake badges to fool victims. The Social Security Administration warns that phone scammers are creating “fake versions” of identification badges. “The scammers will text or email photos

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• Amazon’s new rotating, follow-you camera is useful—and invasive. The covid-19 Zoom boom has turned us into camera operators. Making sure everyone’s face can be seen in the videoconference is a daily

• Por qué las aplicaciones de pago no son tan seguras como las tarjetas de crédito. Puede ser que CashApp, Venmo y Zelle sean convenientes, pero no ofrecen la protección contra el fraude que ofrecen Mastercard y Visa.