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ICO Fines Dixons Carphone £500K After Breach Affects 14M Consumers

ICO Fines Dixons Carphone £500K After Breach Affects 14M Consumers
ICO Fines Dixons Carphone £500K After Breach Affects 14M Consumers
January 10, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

Dixons Carphone is staring down the barrel of a £500,000 (about $650,000) fine by the Information Commissioner’s Office over an incident of compromised data that...

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CFPB Charges Student Loan Debt Relief Firms With Unlawful Behavior
CFPB Charges Student Loan Debt Relief Firms With Unlawful Behavior
January 10, 2020  |  CFPB

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has filed lawsuits against several companies offering to forgive student loan debt for allegedly obtaining peoples’ data illegally, charging...

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Bitcoin Daily: Deribit Crypto Exchange Flees Netherlands’ Tight Regulation; Illinois Now Recognizes Blockchain Contracts As Legally Binding
Bitcoin Daily: Deribit Crypto Exchange Flees Netherlands’ Tight Regulation; Illinois Now Recognizes Blockchain Contracts As...
January 10, 2020  |  Bitcoin

Deribit, a popular global cryptocurrency options exchange, is moving to Panama in February to sidestep the Netherlands’ upcoming regulation changes on the industry, according to...

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Zuckerberg Predicts Big Advancements In AR Tech In 2020s
Zuckerberg Predicts Big Advancements In AR Tech In 2020s
January 10, 2020  |  Facebook / Meta

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is excited about augmented reality tech, which he thinks can address a number of social problems. Get the Full Story Complete...

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UK Startup Earnt It Wants To Update Payroll Advances
UK Startup Earnt It Wants To Update Payroll Advances
January 10, 2020  |  B2B Payments

U.K. payroll startup Earnt It wants to help the “millions of people in the U.K. who often resort to overdrafts, credit cards and payday loans...

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Visa: Road-Tripping Into Connected Commerce’s Future
Visa: Road-Tripping Into Connected Commerce’s Future
January 10, 2020  |  VISA

It wasn’t long ago that the measure of a car or truck revolved around such things as the punch and pull of the engine, the...

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This Week In Payments: Feeding The Hunger For Innovation, Sometimes Literally
This Week In Payments: Feeding The Hunger For Innovation, Sometimes Literally
January 10, 2020  |  Commerce Connected

The payments and commerce ecosystem got busy getting busy this week as the first full week of 2020 kicked off the press releases began raining...

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Fiserv: Why Gas Is Just The Start Of What Alexa Will Pay For
Fiserv: Why Gas Is Just The Start Of What Alexa Will Pay For
January 10, 2020  |  Voice Activation

While there were many attention-grabbing announcements coming out of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), among the more eye-opening was the joint announcement by ExxonMobil,...

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