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Consumers Value Their Social Media But Put Security Onus On Companies

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Social media has taken on a life of its own — so much so that a new survey finds a lot of consumers value their life online at $100,000 to priceless. That may be particularly scary since Forbes reported that Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook got his social media accounts hacked for the third time in 2016.

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Social Media Can Make Bank Customers Susceptible To Scams

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Unintentionally making themselves targets for scammers, customers may become vulnerable to fraud by complaining to banks on social media when systems crash. After problems with an information technology migration locked thousands of clients out of accounts at the U.K.’s

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Executive Order Looms For Social Media Firms On Content? 

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The summary, according to the site, would direct the FCC to develop new regulations that would detail how the law may protect social media platforms as they move to take content off their sites – and to take those new regulations into account when investigating or filing suit against those firms. In the UK, Too.

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Regulators Eyeing Social Media In Europe

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Against the backdrop of social media controversy — remember Facebook , of course, and 87 million users’ data exposed to Cambridge Analytica — oversight is tightening in Europe. Justice Department and the FBI are investigating the company over how it handled Facebook-derived information. The news came last week that the U.S.

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Keep your account information secure

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Our members' privacy and security is extremely important to us and we want to be sure all our members keep their accounts safe from scammers, who may impersonate Current on social media or any other platform. Please know we are reporting all of these to the various social media platforms to have them removed.

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Deposits, Deposits, Wherefore Art Thou? Juliet’s banker. 

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Positives (Or Less Negative Than Before) Unrealized losses on held-to-maturity securities totaled $284.0 Unrealized losses on available-for-sale securities totaled $231.6 Uses social media and market sentiment analytics to assess market sentiment and generate prescriptive insights on threats to brand reputation.

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Facebook Hit With Fine From UK’s Information Commission Over Data Handling

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after the Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO ) ruled that the social media network operator was engaged in “serious breaches of data protection.” 25) that the personal information of one million or more U.K. Facebook got hit with a $644,600 fine in the U.K.