Texas AG Sue TikTok Under SCOPE Act The Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act is designed to protect kids online. The Texas AG claims that TikTok failed to comply with the parental verification requirement, unlawful sharing, disclosing or selling of a minor’s PII and failure to create and provide parental tools. While this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Can Vendors Enforce License Agreements for Kids on Parents? Ed Tech vendors (those companies that sell tech to schools for use by their students) apparently sell your kid’s data and think that because the school agreed to some terms that implicitly binds the parents. In one case, the court said no. I didn’t know that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Housing Market Bracing For Interest Hike Since Trump Won Now that Donald Trump was elected this week, economists are betting that inflation will go up. Research firm Capital Economics plans to actually raise its interest-rate forecast because its economist Thomas Ryan suspects the Federal Reserve’s reaction will be to pull back on slashing rates. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russian Court Fines Google 2 Undecillion Rubles for Blocking YouTube Accounts This is a case of YouTube blocking several Russian TV stations’ YouTube accounts. They are being fined by Russia’s anti-monopoly service from failing to restore the accounts. Google was fined, back in 2020, 100 thousand rubles a day with the fine doubling every week […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Global Police Crackdown Arrests 5,000, Shuts Down Sites A global police crackdown in June and July against illegal sports gambling led to thousands of arrests and website shutdowns while also disrupting scam centers and their related human trafficking and money laundering operations, Interpol reported Thursday. They arrested 5,100 people, recovered $59 million in proceeds and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Now North Korea Using Fake IT Workers to Extort Employers Scams evolve. Now that the scam concept is public, North Korea is pivoting. They are extorting the companies that hire these North Koreans as IT employees after the employees steal corporate secrets. Read the details here. SURPRISE! (Not) – OpenAI Confirms Attackers use ChatGPT to […]
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