Posts Tagged ‘Illegal’
CSFB Fines Lender Enova $15 Million For Illegal Practices Against Consumers
CFPB is a government agency overseeing consumer financial protection laws Reuters The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) applied a fine of $15 million to consumer lending firm Enova and ordered the company to stop offering some short-term loans. The government agency said Enova illegally withdrew funds from customers’ bank accounts without their permission, made deceptive…
Read MoreEU Probes AliExpress To Examine Curbs On Illegal Products
The EU on Monday announced an investigation into Chinese e-commerce giant AliExpress, seeking more details on what measures it is taking to protect consumers online from illegal products, including fake medicines. The European Commission said it had sent a formal request for information to AliExpress, owned by Alibaba, in what is a first step in…
Read MoreAI chatbot performed illegal financial trade and lied about it too
We Asked These Experts About What The Future Holds For Artificial Intelligence Researchers have shown that an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot using a GPT-4 model is capable of performing illegal financial trades and cover it up too. In a demonstration at the just-concluded UK’s AI safety summit, the bot used made-up insider information to make…
Read MoreAbdesalem Lassoued: ISIS Illegal Migrant Who Killed Two Swedes in Brussels to Avenge Death of US-Palestinian Boy Shot Dead in Encounter
Belgian police shot dead the suspected ISIS gunman, Abdesalem Lassoued, 45, in a café in Schaerbeek, Brussels, on Monday following an extensive manhunt. Armed law enforcement confronted Lassoued and engaged in gunfire after cornering him inside a café in the Schaerbeek neighborhood of Brussels at 8 a.m. The gunman sustained chest injuries from the shooting.…
Read MoreConnecticut Couple Charged After Video Shows Them Berating Puerto Rican Landscapers, Accusing Them of Being Illegal
A Middletown, Connecticut, couple was charged after going on a racist tirade against landscapers in a video that has since gone viral on social media. Authorities said 62-year-old Robert Shaw and 58-year-old Sharon Bourgeois-Williams, of Frisbie Street, were each charged with disorderly conduct. They were charged with disorderly conduct because their “hostile behavior prevented one…
Read MoreEU Warns Musk’s X Spreading ‘Illegal’ Disinfo After Hamas Attack
The EU’s digital chief Thierry Breton warned Elon Musk on Tuesday that his platform X, formerly Twitter, is spreading “illegal content and disinformation”, in a letter seen by AFP. The letter said concerns had heightened after the Hamas attack against Israel, and demanded Musk respond to the complaint within 24 hours and contact “relevant law…
Read MoreCalifornia Teacher Under Investigation After Video Surfaces of Him Calling a Street Vendor ‘Illegal’ in Racist Rant
A high school teacher with the Moorpark Unified School District is under investigation after they were caught on camera making several racially-insensitive and anti-immigration remarks. The man in the video was later identified as French teacher Gnel Frankian, who has taught at Moorpark High School for just over a month. ‘You’re Illegal!’ During the profanity-laced…
Read MoreUS Says Amazon Running Illegal Monopoly In Online Retail
A top US antitrust regulator sued Amazon on Tuesday, accusing the online retail behemoth of running an illegal monopoly by strong-arming sellers and stifling potential rivals. The highly anticipated lawsuit is another test for the Biden administration as it tries to curb the power of big tech in the face of pushback from US courtrooms.…
Read MoreAmazon Is Sued By US Government And 17 States For Illegal Monopoly
The Federal Trade Commission and 17 US states sued Amazon, accusing the company of illegal practices that hurt other companies to maintain its monopoly. “Amazon’s ongoing pattern of illegal conduct prevents current competitors from growing and new competitors from emerging,” the FTC said in a statement posted on its website. “By stifling competition on price,…
Read MoreUS States Relax Child Labor Laws Amid Rise In Illegal Work
Working in industrial laundries at age 14, laboring up to 35 hours a week on top of school — some US states are relaxing the barriers to employing minors, despite rising cases of exploitation. At least five states have amended their legislation covering adolescent job regulations, with Arkansas being the latest to see changes take…
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