Headline News Archive

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

• 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

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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

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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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• 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.

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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

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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

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• 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

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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

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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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• Una hacker ataca al banco estadounidense Capital One. Un ataque informático contra el banco estadounidense Capital One Financial, uno de los mayores emisores de tarjetas de crédito del pa

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• Hackers' latest targets: school districts. Schools handle a lot of personal data and may not have strong technology teams, leaving them vulnerable to attacks, experts say.

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• Nuevo choque de Trump con Macron. Francia está impulsando la adopción de un impuesto histórico a empresas tecnológicas como Google y Facebook, a pesar

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• House passes anti-robocall bill. The House on Wednesday took a major step toward cracking down on illegal robocalls by passing legislation allowing for tougher penalties against

• Here’s where Facebook’s record $5 billion fine goes. Facebook’s record-breaking $5 billion fine for user privacy issues came in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, but the cash-strapped agency isn&rsquo

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• Facebook fined $5B by FTC, Zuckerberg to report to FTC periodically (Chinese). 聯邦貿易委員會(FTC)24日宣布對科技業巨擘臉書侵犯用戶隱私罰款50億元，創下FTC對美國科技業者歷來最高罰款，並對臉書提出全新監管規定，也要求執行長查克柏格(Mark Zuckerberg)個人要確保該公司遵循保障用戶隱私的方案行事。

• Facebook antitrust inquiry shows freewheeling era is past. Facebook came under siege on multiple fronts, agreeing to new layers of oversight and two fines to settle privacy and disclosure violations, even as it