Data security

Facebook crypto exec meets congressional firing squad

07/16/19

Resistance to Libra on the Senate Banking Committee was bipartisan, and other takeaways from Tuesday’s hearing.

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Will Libra force Congress to act on data protection?

07/14/19

Almost two years after the Equifax breach led to a congressional uproar but minimal policy change, the protracted fight to enact data security and privacy reform has a new bogeyman.

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Is facial recognition safe for financial institutions to use?

07/02/19

The technology has become controversial for its potential for bias. Notre Dame professor Kevin Bowyer explains what his studies of this issue have found.

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Equifax breach still poses fraud risk at four government agencies: GAO

06/14/19

The watchdog and three Democratic lawmakers urged the agencies to stop using knowledge-based verification methods to grant access to their online portals.

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Brown blasts data brokers' refusal to testify to Senate banking panel

06/11/19

The top Democrat on the Banking Committee suggested the absence of data brokers at a hearing on privacy legislation was "cowardice."

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Crapo, Brown probe Facebook over financial data collection

05/10/19

Sens. Mike Crapo and Sherrod Brown are asking Facebook about its consumer financial data collection practices as they consider data privacy legislation.

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TD Bank’s calculated shift to the cloud

05/01/19

The North American banking giant is making a gradual yet concerted effort to migrate applications to Microsoft’s cloud, but there are still sensitive operations and pieces of data that it’s holding back on for now.

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Apple Card: 7 key takeaways

03/25/19

Apple's new credit card isn't just another virtual card in its virtual wallet. It borrows a lot of features from the most successful brands in payments and technology.

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The states at the forefront of consumer privacy legislation

03/03/19

California and others have passed consumer privacy laws, and lawmakers in Congress are beginning to address the issue.

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House banking panel bemoans credit bureaus' 'oligopoly'

02/26/19

The root of the credit reporting sector’s problems may be its dominance by a handful of big firms, lawmakers from both parties said at a hearing.

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