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The popular drug discount app deceptively shared details on users’ illnesses and medicines with ad firms, regulators said in a legal complaint.Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.Millions of people have used GoodRx, a drug discount app, to search for lower prices on prescriptions.Credit...GoodRxBy Natasha SingerNatasha Singer, a tech reporter, has covered health privacy since 2010.Millions of Americans have used GoodRx, a drug discount app, to search for lower prices on prescriptions like antidepressants, H.I.V. medications and treatments for sexually transmitted diseases at their local drugstores. But U.S. regulators say the app’s coupons and convenience came at a high cost for users: wrongful disclosure of their intimate health information.On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission accused the app’s developer, GoodRx Holdings, of sharing sensitive personal data on millions of users’ prescription medications and illnesses with companies like Facebook and Google without authorization.  » Read More

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Shooter Jennings knew “Carmelita.” He knew “Lawyers, Guns and Money.” And of course he knew “Werewolves of London,” Warren Zevon’s 1978 rock hit about a “hairy-handed gent” on the prowl for “a big dish of beef chow mein.”“It’s kind of the low-hanging fruit” of Zevon’s catalog, Jennings says of “Werewolves,” which after scraping the top 20 of Billboard’s Hot 100 went on to reach new audiences in the late 2000s when Kid Rock borrowed its strutting groove for his song “All Summer Long.”But until three or four years ago, Jennings — the Los Angeles-based musician and Grammy-winning producer whose father is the late outlaw-country pioneer Waylon Jennings — had never dug deeply into Zevon’s work. That’s when a friend pushed him to check out “Desperados Under the Eaves,” the gut punch of a closer from Zevon’s self-titled 1976 LP in which the booze-soaked narrator contemplates his sorry situation from an air-conditioned room at the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel.“So I listened to it,” Jennings says. “Then I listened to it 3,000 more times.”What he heard in Zevon’s heart-rending yet bleakly hilarious lyrics — “And if California slides into the ocean/ Like the mystics and statistics say it will/ I predict this motel

by: Jamey Tucker, Dylan Jimenez Posted: Jan 31, 2023 / 10:13 PM CST Updated: Jan 31, 2023 / 10:13 PM CST Another day and another friend posts to Facebook that their account has been “hacked” and warns friends not to accept messages or friend requests from them. It happens now more than ever according to a report from. First of all, the account has likely been cloned, not hacked. While those scammers often find profile information on the dark web, typically Facebook users make it easy for someone who knows what they’re doing to create or clone their Facebook profile and information. Here are a few common mistakes people make that give scammers the ability (and desire) to clone their profiles and annoy their friends: Accepting friend requests from people you don’t know or friends you’re already friends with. Scammers create fake or cloned accounts to build their own network of potential victims. Everyone on your friend list and even those following you can see your profile information and when you post updates.  » Read More

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Home Daily News After seeing attitude shifts about opiate… Asked and Answered By Stephanie Francis Ward January 30, 2023, 8:30 am CST       Image from Shutterstock. In the 35 years that Jayne Conroy has been a lawyer, she’s spent the entire time in private practice doing civil litigation and has tried more than 70 cases. She also worked her way through law school as a paralegal, which she says enhanced her education experience and taught her the best ways to know a case file backward and forward, as well as how things should be organized. Conroy’s work includes leading some of the multidistrict litigation involving opiates with jury trials around the country. Through that, she’s seen juries and judges change their minds about addiction and responsibilities. Her next target is social media. In 2022, Conroy and other lawyers brought a federal action against Meta Platforms Inc.,  » Read More

A CYBER-EXPERT has issued a stark warning to all Facebook Messengers users. There are several "red flags" that you must be aware of – or risk serious consequences. 1Messenger is an extremely powerful app – but you have to use it carefullyCredit: Facebook Facebook Messenger is used by billions of people around the world. That makes its users a prime target for scammers, hackers and other online criminals. Often these crooks will use Messenger DMs (direct messages) to try to extract money or private info from you. Speaking to The Sun, cyber-expert Rob Griffin has revealed three messages that you should be especially wary of on Facebook Messenger. Rob, who is CEO at cybersecurity firm MIRACL, said you should be on high alert when it comes to "any message or post that asks you to provide personal details". He added: "Whether that's your email, password, or anything else that could be used in a scam." But that's not all.  » Read More

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Christen Liebert reportedly met Pawan Kumar on Facebook in 2012.Etah: It is said that love has no boundaries. The people of Etah in Uttar Pradesh witnessed something similar when a Swedish woman married a local resident recently.Christen Liebert flew to India to marry Pawan Kumar, who she met on Facebook, according to Hindu customs at a school in Etah on Friday, news agency ANI reported.Video of the marriage shared by ANI showed Christen Liebert, dressed in an Indian wedding dress, putting the garland around the groom's neck during the varmala ceremony.Christen Liebert reportedly met Pawan Kumar on Facebook in 2012.Pawan Kumar, who completed his B. Tech from Dehradun, works as an engineer at a firm.His family did not have any objection to the marriage.The groom's father Geetam Singh said that their happiness lies in the happiness of the children. "We totally agree with this marriage," he said.  » Read More

If the past dictates the future, between 80% and 90% of today's U.S. workforce is going to be reliant, in some capacity, on Social Security income when they retire. This 80% to 90% range reflects the percentage of retirees leaning on Social Security as a "major" or "minor" source of income across 20 years of annual Gallup surveys.  Unfortunately, this program responsible for doling out millions of benefit checks each month isn't on the soundest financial footing. A very big reason for that is America's worsening immigration problem. Image source: Getty Images. Social Security is facing a greater than $20 trillion funding shortfall Since 1940, which is when the first retirement benefit checks were issued, the Social Security Board of Trustees has released a lengthy annual report that examines the short-term (10-year) and long-term (75-year) outlook for the program. It's effectively an under-the-hood look at how much revenue Social Security is bringing in, where that money is being disbursed, and how financially sound the short-term and long-term future of the program is,  » Read More