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Vikas Datta (IANS) 24 January 2017
Internet and mobile phones, smart and otherwise, may have made communications and information access to information instant but also left users vulnerable to surveillance from state agencies, warns a British journalist who had a role in publicising both Julian Assange and Edward Snowden's...

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Derek Kravitz  and   Al Shaw (ProPublica) 23 January 2017
At a news conference last week, now-President Donald Trump said he and his daughter, Ivanka, had signed paperwork relinquishing control of all Trump-branded companies. Next to him were stacks of papers in manila envelopes — documents he said transferred "complete and total control" of his...

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Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 18 January 2017
This story was co-published with NPR’s Shots blog.   The long arm of the pharmaceutical industry continues to pervade practically every area of medicine, reaching those who write guidelines that shape doctors' practices, patient advocacy organizations, letter writers to the Centers...

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IANS 17 January 2017
More than 4.8 billion data records have been exposed since 2013 with identity theft being the leading type of data breach, accounting for 64 per cent of all data breaches, digital security giant Gemalto said on Tuesday.   According to Gemalto's '2016 Data Breaches and Customer...

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Sebastian Rotella (ProPublica) 17 January 2017
The conflict between President-elect Donald Trump and the U.S. intelligence community could have profound repercussions.   We spoke recently about the issue to Matthew Olsen, who spent two decades working in senior posts in intelligence and national security for Democrat and Republican...

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IANS 11 January 2017
Family members of three Americans who were killed in attacks by the Islamic State in the Brussels airport bombing in 2016 and Paris attack in November 2015 have filed a lawsuit against Twitter, accusing it of aiding the extremist group by ignoring its tweets.   According to a report...

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IANS 09 January 2017
A strike by London Underground workers on Monday left millions of commuters facing massive disruption and having to endure journeys on grid-locked roads, with most tube stations closed and crowded rail and bus services elsewhere in the capital, the media reported.   Transport for...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 January 2017
American consumers are spending billions of dollars each year on hidden fees that are added on after the purchase decision has been made, says ConsumerAffairs.com quoting a new report.   In the report, Truman Lewis from ConsumerAffairs.com, says, telecommunications providers the...

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Joe Sexton (ProPublica) 06 January 2017
The meaning and enforcement of the Illinois hate-crimes statute seems destined for intense scrutiny with the arrest this week of four young black adults in Chicago in connection with the assault of a mentally disabled white man. The arrests by the Chicago Police Department resulted in part...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 05 January 2017
Two of the largest credit score reporting agencies in the US have to pay millions in fines for deceiving consumers about the actual cost and usefulness of credit scores they sold to consumers under agreements with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).    TransUnion and

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Alec MacGillis (ProPublica) 04 January 2017
Donald Trump's selection of Rick Perry to lead the Department of Energy has prompted many Democrats to question Perry's qualifications for the position. While he governed a state rich in fossil fuels and wind energy, Perry has far less experience than President Obama's two energy secretaries,...

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Cezary Podkul  and   Derek Kravitz (ProPublica)  and   Will Parker (The Real Deal) 02 January 2017
This story was co-published with The Real Deal.   In 2014, an obscure campaign in the foothills west of Albany between a sheep farmer and a home builder mushroomed into one of the most expensive State Senate elections in New York history. Each side's supporters spent at least $3.5...

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Andrew Revkin (ProPublica) 30 December 2016
President-elect Donald J. Trump has long pledged to undertake a profound policy shift on climate change from the low-carbon course President Obama made a cornerstone of his eight years in the White House.   "This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop," Trump tweeted a...

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Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr  and   Surya Mattu (ProPublica) 28 December 2016
Facebook has long let users see all sorts of things the site knows about them, like whether they enjoy soccer, have recently moved, or like Melania Trump.   But the tech giant gives users little indication that it buys far more sensitive data about them, including their income, the...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 27 December 2016
TINA.org tracked more than 400 class-action lawsuits relating to false or deceptive advertising in 2016 and as always kept a watchful eye on the trends, outcomes, and settlements. Advertisements of 100-percent grated cheese grated on consumers as did so-called healthy and natural foods,...

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Robert Faturechi  and   Derek Willis (ProPublica) 26 December 2016
A political action committee (PAC) that backed Donald Trump's bid for the presidency is continuing to flout campaign finance laws.   Earlier this month, ProPublica reported that the America Comes First PAC had violated the rules by not disclosing the source of its funding before...

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IANS 21 December 2016
Facebook misled the European Union (EU) regulators over its 2014 takeover of WhatsApp, the EU said on Tuesday.   "The European Commission has sent a statement of objections to Facebook alleging the company provided incorrect or misleading information during the Commission's 2014...

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Richard Tofel (ProPublica) 16 December 2016
ProPublica recently took a look at the Emoluments Clause, the provision of the Constitution which seems to ban payments from foreign countries to Donald Trump's businesses once he becomes president unless Congress consents. But at least one scholar, whose work we inadvertently overlooked,...

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Kyra Gurney, Anjali Tsui, David Iaconangelo, Selina Cheng 15 December 2016
This report is a collaboration between ProPublica and the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University. A version of this story is being co-published with The Miami Herald   Wealthy politicians and businessmen suspected of corruption in their native lands are...

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IANS 12 December 2016
The hacker group "Legion" that broke into the Twitter accounts of the Congress Party, its Vice President Rahul Gandhi, controversial liquor baron Vijay Mallya and now TV journalists Barkha Dutt and Ravish Kumar has finally come out in the open.   In an interview with The Washington...

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