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California is rewriting the rules of the internet. Businesses are scrambling to keep up
A sweeping new law that aims to rewrite the rules of the internet in California is set to go into effect on Jan. 1. Most businesses with a website and customers in California — which is to say most large businesses in the nation — must follow the new rules, which are supposed to make online life more transparent and less creepy for users. The only problem: Nobody’s sure how the new rules work.
Readers: Streaming data caps are unfair (USA Today)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 12/08/2019 - 17:22Robocalls on the rise: Americans get 18 spam calls per month, report says (USA Today)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 06:32Binge-watching? Beware data caps
If you have autoplay enabled on your Netflix or Amazon Prime account, listen up: it could cost you hundreds of dollars a year if you’re not careful. ew services like Disney+ offer us unfettered access to most of the gems of the Disney vault, along with Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars and 20th Century Fox, with the expectation that we'll watch them for hours.
'Hundreds of millions of people' may have had their text messages exposed online, researchers say (USA Today)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 12/02/2019 - 10:27Google debuts personalized news feed (USA Today)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 11/19/2019 - 13:06Forget 5G. Founder wants Boost Mobile back to keep prices for budget customers low (USA Today)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/18/2019 - 15:34AT&T’s latest smartphone plans offer new ways to limit 'unlimited' data
AT&T, the latest to retire old mostly-unlimited plans, did so only 20 months after the June 2018 introduction of its previous offers. The new ones – announced days before the Federal Trade Commission fined AT&T $60 million for not disclosing speed limits on plans sold five years ago as unlimited – require factoring in the same three variables as the other nationwide carriers’ unlimited-ish deals.