Tag Archives: personal development

Beware of Credit ‘Repair’ Companies, Consumer Watchdogs Say

Beware of Credit ‘Repair’ Companies, Consumer Watchdogs Say Anything these companies can do, people can do for themselves at no cost. Federal regulators recently filed suit against two of the biggest companies. Read More…

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We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster.

We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. The average policy took 18 minutes to finish and required a college-level reading ability. Read More…

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Amazon Flunks Children’s Privacy, Advocacy Groups Charge

Amazon Flunks Children’s Privacy, Advocacy Groups Charge Children’s groups say the tech giant’s Echo Dot Kids device violated a federal law protecting youngsters’ online privacy. Amazon disagrees. Read More…

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Facebook Enlists Plain English to Clarify How It Makes Money

Facebook Enlists Plain English to Clarify How It Makes Money Facebook is updating its terms and services guidelines to clarify how it makes money from the personal information of its users. The changes reflect its ongoing attempts to satisfy regulators in the U.S. and Europe, which have urged the company to… Read More…

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A National Goal: Prevent a Million Heart Attacks and Strokes by 2022

A National Goal: Prevent a Million Heart Attacks and Strokes by 2022 There is already a well-established path to countering cardiovascular disease. All it really requires is the will of individuals and society to follow it. Read More…

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Lifting Journalism by Knowing What Readers Are Looking For

Lifting Journalism by Knowing What Readers Are Looking For Claudio E. Cabrera, who specializes in search engine optimization, describes how he keeps track of what’s hot in search and how that informs coverage — and what the limits are. Read More…

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Still Separate, Still Unequal: Teaching about School Segregation and Educational Inequality

Still Separate, Still Unequal: Teaching about School Segregation and Educational Inequality Although many students learn about the struggles to desegregate schools in the civil rights era, segregation as a current reality is largely absent from the curriculum. This teaching resource uses Times articles and Op-Eds to investigate the issue… Read More…

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