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2013

June

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• Press Releases | Consumers to online advertisers: No tracking for ANY reason. (Note to editors: Click here for a PDF summary of poll findings.) WASHINGTON, DC – Consumers do not want to be tracked online even it means they would receive more relevant advertising, according to the…

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• Headlines | Five ways to stop the NSA from spying on you. If recent reports are to be believed, the National Security Agency has broad powers to capture private information about Americans. They know who we’re calling, they have access to our Gmail messages and AOL Instant…
• Headlines | Privacy in a digital world. In the last week, we’ve learned that the National Security Agency has broad powers to track our online activities. Those revelations made big headlines, but we’ve known for years that private advertising companies are tracking…

06

• Headlines | FCC to consider rules for protecting data on mobile devices. The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that it will consider new rules to protect information stored on mobile devices, extending the reach of the nation’s telecom and cable cop to include some oversight of smartphones…

May

31

• Press Releases | Consumer Action survey: Most users would recommend peer-to-peer payments to others (80% of respondents report paying no fees to send “cashless” payments). A new survey by Consumer Action, released today, finds that consumers have expanding opportunities for making small payments to others electronically with a few taps on a mobile phone. People are using “peer-to-peer” payments to…

29

• Headlines | FEMA promotes its wireless emergency alert system. THE Federal Emergency Management Agency is releasing new public service advertising this week, created in conjunction with the Advertising Council, to educate Americans about its wireless emergency alert system. Wireless emergency alerts — issued for…

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• Headlines | If my data is an open book, why can’t I read it?. Our mobile carriers know our locations: where our phones travel during working hours and leisure time, where they reside overnight when we sleep. Verizon Wireless even sells demographic profiles of customer groups — including ZIP…

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• Headlines | Beat-up cellphones are point of pride for some young people. Brittany Lofton spots them all the time: teens and college students clutching their beat-up cellphones, with screens so cracked that spider-web-like patterns creep across the glass. Sure, the screen’s razory shards make reading a text…

18

• Headlines | Privacy watchdog EPIC files complaint against Snapchat with FTC. A privacy watchdog group is going after Snapchat for deceiving users about self-destructing messages that don't actually self-destruct.

12

• Headlines | The war for mobile messaging is on. Start-up mobile messaging apps have surged, displacing traditional SMS texts. Silicon Valley titans such as Google and Facebook want in on the action.

09

• Headlines | Outsmarting smartphone thieves. In the month since two men violently shoved him to the ground and stole his iPhone 5, Dalton Huckaby has almost completely stopped calling his mother. It usually takes him a full day to text…

April

24

• Press Releases | 1,440 (and counting) sign Consumer Action’s “Save Wireless Lifeline” petition. Consumer Action's collected hundreds of signatures from across the country from people and organizations who support the Universal Service Fund low-income wireless Lifeline program, which is under attach by conservatives in Congress.

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• Headlines | Senate moves ahead on online sales tax. The Senate on Monday moved forward on legislation giving states more authority to collect sales tax on transactions made over the Internet, which would level the playing field for online and offline businesses — but…

11

• Headlines | FCC faces questions and challenges. President Obama hasn’t picked a new chair for the Federal Communications Commission, but Washington is abuzz with opinions on what the new regulator needs to do. Phil Weiser, a former senior adviser for Obama on…

10

• Headlines | Google expanding super-fast Internet service. Google said Tuesday it would bring its ultra-fast Internet service to a second U.S. city, ramping up a fledgling fiber-optic business that is sending tremors through the telecom industry.  Minutes after Google announced it was…
• Headlines | ‘Obama phones’ subsidy program draws new scrutiny. “Obama phone” is the widely used — and misleading — nickname of a 28-year-old federal program known as Lifeline. It provides discounts, averaging $9.25 a month, on phone service for 13.3 million low-income subscribers.  There are growing…

09

• Headlines | Consumer bureau wants your complaints. Knowledge is power, especially when it comes to making a financial decision such as applying for a loan or choosing a credit card.  That’s why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) opened its database of…

04

• Headlines | As Web search goes mobile, competitors chip at Google’s lead. Say you need a latté. You might pull out your phone, open the Yelp app and search for a nearby cafe. If instead you want to buy an espresso machine, you will most likely tap…

March

30

• Headlines | Is the new T-Mobile too good to be true?. If T-Mobile’s announcements this week didn’t blow your mind, you probably weren’t paying enough attention. T-Mobile’s pitch is that being the friendly, open “uncarrier” will help it become the Shangri-La of mobile networks: Consumers will…

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• Headlines | T-Mobile drops contract plans, ends phone subsidies. Ahead of a press event Tuesday, T-Mobile quietly updated its website this weekend to announce that it was doing away with service contracts. With the move, T-Mobile becomes the first major U.S. carrier to drop…

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• Headlines | JPMorgan Chase is reining in payday lenders. JPMorgan Chase will make changes to protect consumers who have borrowed money from a rising power on the Internet — payday lenders offering short-term loans with interest rates that can exceed 500 percent. JPMorgan, the…

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• Headlines | 5 ways to find free Wi-Fi wherever you go. With the right tools you'll never be too far from a free hot spot. You might have to walk another block or two, but savings will be worth it. When you're on the go, you…

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• Headlines | FTC: Ads on mobile, social media must show disclosures. Marketers hawking diet pills and other questionable goods on social media will have to be more forthcoming. Digital ads that pop up on Twitter, Facebook and other mobile sites must be accompanied by disclosures to…
• Headlines | 25 percent of teens access Internet with smartphones. The American teenager continues to lead the nation in smartphone use, with one-quarter of teens accessing the Internet mostly from their cellphones, according to a study. The results of the Pew Internet & American Life…

09

• Headlines | Majority of mobile malware on Android phones. Nearly 80 percent of all mobile malware found in 2012 was written for phones running Google’s mobile Android operating system, according to a report from security firm F-Secure.

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