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British Airways Employees Say Call Center Data Not Secure

British Airways Employees Say Call Center Data Not Secure
British Airways Employees Say Call Center Data Not Secure
March 24, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Current and former staff at British Airways, the U.K. airliner, told The Financial Times this weekend that data has been handled insecurely and has been...

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Bitcoin Daily: Overstock To Launch Bitcoin Trading App; Mt. Gox Warns Legal Against Mass Crypto Sale
Bitcoin Daily: Overstock To Launch Bitcoin Trading App; Mt. Gox Warns Legal Against Mass Crypto...
March 24, 2019  |  Bitcoin

Overstock’s tZERO is set to launch a mobile trading app in June. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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Space: The Final Travel Commerce Frontier
Space: The Final Travel Commerce Frontier
March 23, 2019  |  Retail

“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life...

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BIS Bitcoin Critic Says Banks Shouldn’t Create Crypto Tokens
BIS Bitcoin Critic Says Banks Shouldn’t Create Crypto Tokens
March 22, 2019  |  Bitcoin

Agustin Carstens, the general manager at the Bank for International Settlements, said that banks shouldn’t issue their own bitcoin-like tokens because it could undermine global...

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Norwegian Regulators: AML Measures Fell Short
Norwegian Regulators: AML Measures Fell Short
March 22, 2019  |  Bank Regulation

The Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) in Norway said that several banks didn’t make sufficient anti-money laundering assessments in 2018, according to a report by Reuters....

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UK Drivers File GDPR Lawsuit Against Uber
UK Drivers File GDPR Lawsuit Against Uber
March 22, 2019  |  Ridesharing

Four U.K. Uber drivers are filing a lawsuit against the company for alleged violations of EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law, according to a...

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Facebook Employees Said To Have Known About Data Scraping
Facebook Employees Said To Have Known About Data Scraping
March 22, 2019  |  Facebook

In a District of Columbia court filing involving Cambridge Analytica, new details have come to light surrounding how much Facebook might have known about data-scraping efforts...

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Mastercard Pushes Cashless Solutions For Transit Payments
Mastercard Pushes Cashless Solutions For Transit Payments
March 22, 2019  |  Mastercard

Mastercard plans to bring cashless transit solutions to more than 20 U.S. cities in the next few years, the company said on Friday (March 22)....

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Report: Almost 95 Pct Of Bitcoin Trading Is Fake
Report: Almost 95 Pct Of Bitcoin Trading Is Fake
March 22, 2019  |  Bitcoin

After sharp drops in bitcoin prices, a new study posits that almost 95 percent of all reported bitcoin trading is made artificially via exchanges that...

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