Headline News Archive

2021

December

01

• New rule will let debt collectors track you down on social media. Debt collection rules have expanded the ways debt collectors can chase down debtors. In practice, it may mean millions of consumers can now be bombarded

November

22

• Amazon wages secret war on Americans' privacy, documents show. In recent years, Amazon.com Inc has killed or undermined privacy protections in more than three dozen bills across 25 states, as the e-commerce giant amassed

• Piden ley sobre privacidad tras reporte sobre "lobby" de Amazon. Cinco miembros del Congreso de Estados Unidos pidieron una ley federal sobre la privacidad del consumidor después de un reporte de...

October

26

• Your browser can tell websites how to treat your data. Privacy-conscious Internet surfers will soon have an additional weapon on their side. You can’t see it working, but a special signal known as

11

• Your driver’s license could soon live on your phone. More than 20 states have either considered, tested or already launched digital versions of driver’s licenses that live on smartphones. Tech giant Apple plans

04

• Senate confirms Rohit Chopra to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Senate narrowly approved President Joe Biden's pick to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, giving the bureau a director* who is likely to

September

27

• Facebook delays Instagram app for users under 13. Facebook said that it had paused development of an Instagram Kids service that would be tailored for children 13 years old or younger, as the social

• Companies are hoarding your personal data. How to get them to delete it. What data can you actually request to delete? When we say “your data,” we mean information like your name, phone number, email and

26

• Instagram suspende planes de lanzar versión para niños. Instagram suspenderá por ahora sus planes de lanzar un servicio para niños menores de 13 años, en medio de preocupaciones por

19

• Lentes inteligentes: Facebook le da una oportunidad a la tecnología que hizo quedar mal a Google. Nuestro reportero probó unas gafas hechas en colaboración con Ray-Ban capaces de hacer fotos, grabar videos, responder a llamadas telefónicas

13

• How you pay the rent may help your mortgage application. Later this month, a group of renters in the United States will get a new break when they try to become homeowners: Their history of

02

• ‘El algoritmo me despidió’: un proyecto de ley de California apunta a cambiar la dura cultura laboral de Amazon. Los legisladores de California tienen a Amazon en la mira. Se espera que un proyecto de ley aprobado por la Asamblea llegue al Senado esta

August

30

• How to block Facebook from snooping on you. Facebook says it’s not literally activating the microphones on our smartphones, but it is tracking what we do in other apps, websites and

26

• Fraud alert: Malicious QR codes. Con artists have added QR codes to a variety of familiar scams. Based on reports to the BBB Scam Tracker, these hoaxes include advance fee

24

• Privacy of streaming apps and devices: Watching TV that watches us. We reviewed the privacy protections in the top 10 streaming apps, as well as the top five streaming devices, that include programming directed at kids and

23

• Seeking early signals of dementia in driving and credit scores. Learning your odds of eventually developing dementia — a pressing concern for many, especially those with a family history of it — requires medical testing

19

• T-Mobile hack exposed personal data of 40 million people. A cyberattack on T-Mobile exposed the information of more than 40 million people, with stolen files including names, birthdays and social security numbers.  The company

• Adolescentes conocedores de la tecnología son las nuevas víctimas de estas 5 estafas virtuales. Los adolescentes conocedores de la tecnología están cayendo en estafas en línea a una tasa más alta

• EEUU: reguladores presentan nueva demanda contra Facebook. Reguladores federales en Estados Unidos arreciaron sus ataques antimonopolios contra Facebook el jueves, presentando una versión enmendada de su querella en la que

• US to erase student debt for those with severe disabilities. The Biden administration announced Thursday it will automatically erase student loan debt for more than 300,000 Americans with severe disabilities that leave them unable to earn

08

• QR codes are here to stay. So is the tracking they allow.. QR codes — essentially a kind of bar code that allows transactions to be touchless — have emerged as a permanent tech fixture from the

06

• Zoom pagará $85 millones de dólares a usuarios. Si usaste o descargaste la app de Zoom para uso personal entre el 30 de marzo de 2016 y el 30 de julio de 2021, tienes una gran probabilidad

02

• Mitos y verdades sobre el tiempo en pantalla de los niños. Las reglas absolutas sobre los niños y la tecnología no ayudan, dice una experta en desarrollo infantil.

July

28

• Turn off, turn on: Simple step can thwart top phone hackers. As a member of the secretive Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Angus King has reason to worry about hackers. At a briefing by security

• La mejor manera de proteger su celular de hackeos. Como miembro de la comisión de Asuntos de Inteligencia del Senado de Estados Unidos, Angus King tiene razones para temer que su tel