Headline News Archive

2018

June

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• How a few people took Equifax to court over Its data breach and won. Christina Bernstein’s check finally arrived last week: $7,440 from Equifax for her trouble. She was one of more than 145 million Americans whose financial information…

• Is there a smarter path to artificial intelligence?. For the past five years, the hottest thing in artificial intelligence has been a branch known as deep learning. The grandly named statistical technique, put…

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• Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile & Sprint suspend selling customer location data. Verizon, AT&T and Sprint will no longer share its customers' location information with several third-party companies who failed to handle the data appropriately, the companies…

19

• iPhones will automatically share location when people dial 911. Your iPhone will soon be able to share your location data automatically if you ever have to call 911, Apple Inc. announced Monday. The feature…

18

• Why hackers aren't afraid of us. While the United States remains the greatest cyberpower on earth, it is increasingly losing daily cyberconflicts. The range of American targets is so wide and…

• Rebel developers are trying to cure our smartphone addiction. A small but growing number of behavioral scientists and former Silicon Valley developers have begun trying to counterprogram the news alerts, friend requests and updates…

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• Credit freezes will soon be free for everyone. Starting this fall, the big three credit reporting agencies — Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion — will be required to let you freeze your credit file…

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• How consumers can take action to protect themselves online. With the recent rise in cyberattacks, consumers must employ the same tactics used by businesses to stay safe online.

• Selling your data for profit? Here are arguments for and against. If you could get paid for information about your likes, dislikes and other data, would you sell it? Our privacy and how our personal data…

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• Beware the Nigerian email scam. By this point, savvy people know it’s a bad idea to trust an email from a Nigerian prince hoping to use their bank account to unload…

• Apple ending apps’ ability to secretly sell your contacts list. Apple's recently updated policy for developers on its App Store now prohibits apps from selling information collected from your address book to other people. The changes, which…

• Apple making it harder for police to collect evidence from iPhones. Apple announced that it would block access to a port that law enforcement uses to break into iPhones during criminal investigations, a move that could…

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• Are any encrypted messaging apps fail-safe?. Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's team is reportedly reviewing the encrypted messaging apps of witnesses in the Russia investigation. The team is looking at…

• Alexa and other smart speakers may endanger privacy rights. Legal experts say internet-connected smart speakers are the latest example of how technology and devices endear themselves to consumers before they realize the downsides. The…

09

• Trump's consumer agency chief looks to shut down complaint database. The Trump administration may shut down a federal database of consumer complaints about the financial-services industry. Banks think that’s a swell idea. “In what world…

07

• Facebook's 14m users privacy settings changed to "public" (Chinese). 社群網站巨頭臉書（Facebook）公司7日對外坦承，今年5月有數天因軟體出現漏洞，導致有多達1400萬名用戶發文時隱私設定變更為「公開」。臉書平台用戶隱私外洩醜聞再添一樁。

• Mulvaney fires all 25 members of consumer watchdog’s advisory board. Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fired the agency’s 25-member advisory board, days after some of its members criticized his leadership…

06

• Facebook shares information with Huawei and other Chinese companies - cause concern (Chinese). 【新唐人2018年06月06日讯】脸书周二承认，与多家中国公司分享用户资料，包括涉嫌为中共提供信息、从事间谍活动的华为。美国议员对此表示担忧。

• Facebook gave data access to Chinese firm flagged by U.S. intelligence. Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant that has a close relationship with China’s government, the social…

• Legisladores EEUU presionan a Facebook por compartir datos. Dos legisladores de Estados Unidos reprendieron el miércoles a Facebook Inc por no ser más transparente sobre sus prácticas de intercambio de datos luego de…

• Facebook financiará programas noticiosos originales. Facebook financiará programas noticiosos originales a ser creados por medios noticiosos como ABC, CNN y Mic, informó la empresa el miércoles.  

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• Facebook may face fines — again — for potentially mishandling users’ data. Facebook’s arrangements with Amazon.com, Apple, BlackBerry and Samsung allowing their devices to access data from the social network’s users could further expose Facebook to steep…

04

• Fifteen default data privacy settings you should change right now. You’re not reading all those updated data policies flooding your inbox. You probably haven’t even looked for your privacy settings. And that’s exactly what Facebook,…

• Facebook gave device makers access to data on users, friends. As Facebook sought to become the world’s dominant social media service, it struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of…

• Facebook rechaza reporte del NY Times sobre manejo de datos. Facebook rechazó un informe periodístico según el cual brindó información sobre sus usuarios y los amigos de éstos a terceros, tales como fabricantes de teléfonos.…