Vice President Mike Pence is meeting with airline CEOs and an airline industry trade group on Wednesday (March 5) over Coronavirus concerns and data collection, according to a report by CNBC. The virus has adversely affected the airline industry, with its stocks dropping to lows...
With a bill that seeks to tackle the distribution of child abuse material, U.S. legislation will reportedly be introduced in the weeks to come that could hamper the capacity of tech firms to provide end-to-end encryption, Reuters reported. The bill aims to combat the distribution of that...
Consumers reported losing $201 million to romance scams last year — an almost 40 percent increase since 2018 per new U.S. Federal Trade Commission data from the Consumer Sentinel Network, according to a press release Wednesday (Feb. 12) from the agency. Romance scammers put their focus toward...
The busy business of home DNA facing its first major test, as consumer demand for the products is beginning to dim. The issue was surfaced by the announcement of the leading firm in the segment, Ancestry.com, which announced across-the-board layoffs earlier this week. The news of the...
Looks like the digital advertising and marketing sectors are in for a reckoning. How that will affect merchants’ online promotional activity hangs in the balance. That’s the scoop as 2020 opens, with privacy skirmishes turning to full-scale war on browser cookies. As we know, mostly...
A pre-mortem analysis sounds … ominous. Mortem, after all, is Latin for “dead.” And the term is attached to a report from the New York Federal Reserve detailing the dangers of cyberattacks. Might we make an official pronouncement on the matter? Yikes. In the business world,...
After bans brought about by Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple, Google also is seeking to make so-called third-party cookies “obsolete.” Cross-website cookies have underpinned digital advertising for a quarter of a century, the Financial Times reported. Google said in a post that it desired to create alternative tools...
To challenge hackers to find flaws in its vehicles, Tesla, the electric automaker, is returning to the Pwn2Own hacking competition run by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), electrek reported. Some Model 3 vehicles and approximately $1 million are said to be for the taking....
Researchers have reported concerns about the timely importance of addressing deep fakes and other types of digital deception amid the backdrop of the upcoming presidential election. The House’s Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce heard digital experts, as well as a representative from Facebook, testify...
