Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu report: If you’re daydreaming about buying a home or need to lower the payment on the one you already have, you might pay a visit to the Quicken Loans mortgage calculator. You’ll be asked a quick succession of questions that reveal how much cash you [Read More…]
Melanie Mason reports: Several months ago, President Trump signed into law a repeal of sweeping privacy regulations limiting what broadband providers can do with customer data. Now, an Assembly Democrat is trying to resuscitate those rules for Californians. Assemblyman Ed Chau (D-Monterey Park) unveiled a measure on Monday that would largely enshrine the sputtered [Read More…]
Matthew Renda reports: A woman whose Uber driver raped her in New Delhi, India, sued the ride-sharing company in federal court Thursday, claiming Uber executives illegally obtained her medical records in an attempt to discredit her traumatic story. The woman, named simply as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, accused Uber [Read More…]
Olivia Solon reports: Facebook put the safety of its content moderators at risk after inadvertently exposing their personal details to suspected terrorist users of the social network, the Guardian has learned. The security lapse affected more than 1,000 workers across 22 departments at Facebook who used the company’s moderation software [Read More…]