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Uber Agrees To Pay $145M Fine To Settle Data Breach Lawsuit

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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announced on Wednesday (Sept. In a press release , the two AGs said the settlement also covers charges that Uber violated reasonable data security laws with its 2016 breach of driver and customer information.

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Fiserv Enables SNAP Online EBT Payment Acceptance For Grocers

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Eight additional states, Idaho, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, Vermont and the District of Columbia, are slated to be added in June. The ability for grocers to enable safe and secure ecommerce, for all of their customer segments, remains critically important to their success.”.

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Visa-Western Union Deal And Alexa’s Roommate Potential Top The Week’s News

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Lead, follow or get out of the way – that seems to apply to the rise of open banking , which promises more financial services innovation, along with greater financial transparency and flexibility. The eCase for Liberating $190B in Rental Security Deposits. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

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It’s Not Easy Being Green: Cannabis Payments

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Seven other states have followed suit within the last five years, including the District of Columbia. That was one of the voices from the Innovation Project’s panel on “The State of Cannabis and Commerce in the U.S.,” What has not changed is how payments for marijuana transpire.

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Amazon Sizzles, Apple Fizzles And A High Profile Merger Fizzle Before It Starts

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Specifically, the FTC threatened to take the issue to the courts and sue to stop the merger — first by filing that the commission will jointly appeal the Attorneys General in California and the District of Columbia, seeking a preliminary injunction to stop the deal. Fizzle: Biometric Data: Nothing’s sacred in security, it seems.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. So its secured lender, which [founder Scott] Jones didn’t name, recently emptied ChaCha’s bank accounts.

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Public Policy Predictions 2019: Regulatory Reforms Ahead

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Court Appeals for the District of Columbia vacated key parts of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 2015 TCPA Order , which had created much confusion and sparked increased litigation. The FCC Will Issue a Major Declaratory Ruling on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In March, the U.S.