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Google was fined a million-dollar figure accused of tracking the location of its users without authorization, after a lawsuit promoted in the North American court by 40 states. The technological giant, part of the holding Alphabetshall pay 400 million dollars by the system tracking you use and also be more transparent with your consumers when you enable location tracking on the phone. To do this, you will have to offer detailed information on a web page about this data. The investigation promoted by the lawyers of the different states began in 2018, when it was discovered that Google was locating…

A “substantial amount” of FTX Group assets “were stolen or are missing”an attorney representing the company told a bankruptcy court Tuesday. "Unfortunately, FTX debtors were not particularly well managedand that's an understatement,” said James Bromley, co-director of construction at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, a judge in Wilmington, Delaware. The fall of Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire happened very quickly and was “pretty shocking,” Bromley said. he qualified “unprecedented” Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. The FTX team is also coordinating with regulators in the US and around the world. "Probably, we have witnessed one of the most abrupt and difficult corporate…

lemon cash had denied last week that it would be seen shocked due to the collapse of the exchange FOOTX of cryptocurrencies. However, long before the firm he led Sam Bankman-fried the Exchange was an investor of the Argentine fintech. At the beginning of this 2022, FTX had received as minority investor in an extension of the investment round it carried out lemon cash which, as far as I could find out bloomberg linestill has own funds held on the exchange which filed for bankruptcy in early November. This added to the funding crisis that startups go through due to…

The fall in the value of cryptocurrencies in the last year is due to a confluence of factors, among them the fhigh liquidity of the main operators and the central banksthe increases in interest rates for savers' bonds and a hardened macroeconomic framework after the contraction of the economies suffered during the pandemic. The risk in crypto investment and the security of bank interest also contributed to the collapse of the virtual currency that that same year and after historical levels, began its recovery. Bitcoin posts its longest winning streak in nearly a decade To this we must add the…

Every year Black Friday generates an increase exponential in transactions online, converting consumers and businesses into a goal for scammers and the cybercriminals they are always lurking. Among the most frequent victims are small and medium-sized companies due to their high infrastructures limited distribution and protection capacity. The large amounts of online credit, debit card, and point-of-sale (POS) transactions that take place during the sale dayadded to the huge wave of data available, without the need to black Friday an attraction for cybercriminals. How to protect yourself from the main threats? A report prepared by Thales, the French world leader…

With the advancement of technology, the scams they become more and more complex. In recent weeks, concern has grown over the "double call"a new social engineering technique to extract data and money from users. This scam is related to the smishing and vishing. The first consists of the sending an SMS message posing as a legitimate entity such as an institution, a bank or a social network. The purpose is to obtain confidential information or make a financial charge. Normally, these SMS contain a link that redirects to a fake website or a premium rate phone number. Alert for the…

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is considering launching a test program for the digital yen in the spring of 2023. In fact, lan Asian monetary entity started a collaboration with three megabanks and some regional financial institutions to carry out a CBDC issuance pilot (digital currency of the central bank), as published by the local news agency Nikkei. As part of test project, which will last two years, the Bank of Japan will collaborate with major private financial institutions to detect and resolve any issues customers may experience with deposits and withdrawals to traditional bank accounts. According to the report,…

“Cancel the World Cup” was the plea that spread on social networks, but – although it could have been a request from Argentine fans after the result of the match with Saudi Arabia– is actually a message launched by the Foundation Argentine Cardiology and the Argentine Society of Cardiology. Both entities launched a preventive campaign to prevent a go up of cardiovascular events generated by stress, a phenomenon that usually registers a sharp increase during relevant matches and soccer finals. It is that it has been proven, in numerous studies carried out over the past two decades, that during key…

Virtual purchase and payment applications: Mercado Libre and Mercado Pago began to fail during the morning of this Monday, January 16, and user complaints multiplied. The faults extend into brazil and uruguayamong other points of the continent where the services work, and the accounts of miles of people are paralyzed and no operation can be carried out. According to fall detectorsite that collects service problems of the most popular online platforms, the applications increased the reports of failures from 9. Users say they can't log in to their profiles or get error banners when they try to make a transaction.…