Originally posted on ARS Technica by Jon Brodkin at April 25, 2018. Verizon is forcing users of Yahoo services to waive their class-action rights and agree to resolve disputes through arbitration. Yahoo users who don’t agree to the new terms will be cut off from the services, though Verizon hasn’t… read more
Originally posted by The New York Times by Stacy Cowley on April 22, 2018. Big banks are making it easy to zap money to your friends. Maybe too easy. Zelle, a service that allows bank customers to instantly send money to their acquaintances, is booming. Thousands of new users sign… read more
Originally posted by The Denver Post by Bruce Finley on April 19, 2018. Suncor Energy’s oil refinery is spewing 8.5 tons a year of invisible hydrogen cyanide gas over low-income north Denver neighborhoods, state records show. Community groups in Globeville, Swansea and Elyria this week petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency… read more
On April 17, 2018, the Colorado communities of Boulder County, San Miguel County, and the City of Boulder—with legal support from EarthRights International, Niskanen Center, and The Hannon Law Firm, LLC — filed a lawsuit against Suncor and ExxonMobil, two oil companies with significant responsibility for climate change. The communities have demanded that… read more
Originally posted on ReCode by Kurt Wagner on April 14, 2018 If we’ve learned anything from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s lengthy congressional testimony this week, it’s that most people are woefully unaware of how much data Facebook collects about them, and then how that data is used. Earlier this week,… read more
A New Jersey state jury on Wednesday slammed Johnson & Johnson and its talc supplier with combined punitive damages of $80 million after finding that the pharmaceutical giant acted with reckless indifference in selling asbestos-containing talcum powder that contributed to a man’s development of mesothelioma. Nearly a week after jurors… read more
Originally posted on KrebsOnSecurity on April 9, 2018. Social media sites are littered with seemingly innocuous little quizzes, games and surveys urging people to reminisce about specific topics, such as “What was your first job,” or “What was your first car?” The problem with participating in these informal surveys is… read more
Originally posted on The New York Times by Sheera Frenkel, Matthew Rosenberg, and Nicholas Confessore on April 10, 2018. Facebook has said that political data firm Cambridge Analytica improperly harvested the public profile data of up to 87 million of its users, including their political beliefs, interests and friends’ information…. read more
Facebook believes about 87 million people had their information compromised to the political research firm, Cambridge Analytica. Starting on Monday, April 9th, Facebook started letting people know if their information was included in the 87 million obtained by Cambridge Analytica. This notification is expected to appear at the top of… read more
Originally posted on The Progressive Pulse by Lisa Sorg. Chemours is emitting roughly 2,700 pounds — more than a ton — of GenX into the air each year, the Division of Air Quality announced today. That amount is 40 times higher than originally reported in early 2017 and four times… read more