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Is your data safer today than when the Equifax data breach was announced a year ago?

by Molly Wood
Sep 7, 2018
The breach affected 147 million people. Here's what's happened since.
Saxby Chambliss, a former Republican senator from Georgia, advises former Equifax CEO Richard Smith before he testifies to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee on Capitol Hill on Oct. 3, 2017. Smith stepped down as CEO of Equifax after it was reported that hackers broke into the credit reporting agency and made off with the personal information of more than 147 million Americans.
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The Equifax breach happened a year ago. If you’re still frozen, you’re not alone.

by Renata Sago
Sep 6, 2018
Many consumers are keeping their credit frozen, just to be safe.
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Why advertising is no longer the holy grail of tech revenue

by Molly Wood and Stephanie Hughes
Aug 3, 2018
This tech earnings season, services, gadgets, and the cloud won. Advertising ... took a hit.
A picture taken on November 20, 2017 shows logos of Google displayed on computers' screens. 
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Treasury intervention could give more help to data breach victims

by Justin Ho
Aug 2, 2018
This week, the Treasury Department issued recommendations to protect consumers from big data breaches, like the ones we’ve seen at Equifax and Target. Among the Treasury Department’s recommendations: creating a national standard for handling the aftermath of data breaches. Click the audio player above to hear the full story. 
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Kids and Tech: Tradeoffs

Designing tech for the most vulnerable users

by Molly Wood
Jul 25, 2018
“We can kick them off of Twitter," Danah Boyd of Data & Society says. "It's not that hard, but that won't make the problem go away."
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Kids and Tech: Tradeoffs

Tech, data, privacy and time: It's a trade-off, but are we trading too much?

by Molly Wood
Jul 23, 2018
"If I don't understand the trade-off that I'm making, how can I help make decisions for my child?" one marketer asks.
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It takes "thousands of hours" to comply with GDPR, says one tech CEO

by Molly Wood and Stephanie Hughes
Jun 12, 2018
The General Data Protection Regulation has been an "intense" process for some companies.
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For small companies, doing business in Europe may not be worth the cost

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
May 17, 2018
Large companies are spending millions to comply with Europe's new data laws; that could prove tough for smaller businesses.
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A proposed question on citizenship status on the 2020 census could depress Latino turnout

by Larry Buhl
May 14, 2018
The 2020 census count is two years away but local officials are already planning how to get everyone counted. Census data is used for determining congressional seats and for distributing billions of dollars in federal funds annually. For many reasons, urban communities and communities of color can be harder to count. And for Latinos, a new […]
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Should we be getting paid for providing data?

by Molly Wood
May 8, 2018
The data we generate daily could be seen as labor. "I do think people are starting to wake up to this," one researcher says.
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