Apr 25, 2020 | Data Privacy
Defending Your Credit: Know Your Rights For many people, a good credit score is a point of pride — and essential to their sense of financial well-being. After all, good credit can be the key to obtaining a mortgage or a business loan. It can ease the way to home...
Dec 17, 2019 | Data Privacy
The amount of time Americans spend online — emailing, direct messaging, keeping up with social media, and simply surfing the Internet — keeps going up. According to the latest annual study by the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg, we now spend close to 24...
Oct 4, 2019 | Data Privacy
If you played Words with Friends your personal information was compromised Gaming apps are meant to provide a relaxing, carefree escape for smartphone users, but a massive data breach at Zynga, developer of some of the most popular social games, has players reeling —...
Aug 27, 2019 | Data Privacy
We’ve all seen the headlines. A stock that was supposed to be the Next Big Thing turns out to be a loss leader. A brokerage house that was supposed to be Too Big to Fail shuts its doors. Investors complain that they were misled, and the whole venture ends in a crash...
Aug 31, 2018 | Data Privacy
Tales of instant wealth are hard to resist. Popular media accounts about the emerging markets for cryptocurrency are teeming with stories of overnight Bitcoin millionaires — like the 19-year-old investor featured in this CNBC report, who parlayed a $1000 gift from his...
Aug 16, 2018 | Data Privacy
These are tumultuous times out in cyberspace, from the massive data breach at Equifax last year that compromised the personal data of 148 million people to the recent revelations that private information about millions of Facebook users ended up in the hands of a...