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Opendoor Labs, an online home buying platform, agreed on Monday to pay $62 million to the Federal Trade Commission to settle claims that it used misleading marketing practices to persuade people to sell their homes on the site.The company,…

When it comes to elections, disinformation is not just a problem online.Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin argue in a new report that disinformation targeting communities of color in three battleground states circulated as…

Cybercriminals using the Snake keylogger malware for Windows are sending malicious PDFs with embedded Word documents to computers to infect and steal information. According to security analysts at HP’s Wolf Security, who recently identified…

:A U.S. judge on Friday refused to block TurboTax maker Intuit Inc from running ads for "free" tax filing that the Federal Trade Commission said deceived millions of taxpayers.U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco denied the…

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued the credit-reporting firm TransUnion and a former senior executive — John Danaher, who led the company’s consumer sales unit — for violating a 2017 order to stop using deceptive tactics to lure…

The Fame Game delivers on its two promises. Firstly, the Sri Rao-created Netflix series justifies its title. A pulpy take on what it takes to become famous in Bollywood is served up as a twisty mystery surrounding the disappearance of a…

You can hear it in his singing voice, and see it in his grin. There’s a lot more to Johnny Gaudreau than he has generally allowed the world to see. However, as a series of recent radio spots voiced by the Flames winger can attest, he has…

The parallel lawsuits by the District of Columbia, Texas, Indiana and Washington state zero in on Google's collection of location data, which can be used to target advertising and build profiles on internet users.The DC Attorney General's…

A joint CBC Marketplace/Go Public investigation using hidden cameras is exposing the deceitful tactics being used to trick consumers into overpriced long-term rental contracts for new heating and cooling equipment — and more. A Marketplace…

Jake West was a seemingly healthy 17-year-old when he collapsed during high school football practice in Indiana and died of sudden cardiac arrest. A video widely shared online falsely suggests COVID-19 vaccination is to…