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Airbnb, in Heat of Class-Action Suit, Accused of Violating Fair Housing Act

One of the largest vacation rental sites, Airbnb, is under major scrutiny and being hit with a class-action suit for discrimination against its African-American users. The class-action suit that was held in Washington D.C. federal court on Tuesday was due to the allegations that Airbnb violated the Fair Housing Act. According to NBC Bay Area, in March 2015 25-year- …


Groupon Sells Breadcrumb to Providence Company

Rich Williams continues tidying up at Groupon, selling off some of the bits and pieces collected over the years that the company no longer wants or can afford. Groupon sold Breadcrumb, a point-of-sale checkout system for restaurants that uses iPads, to Upserve, a Providence, R.I.-based company that makes software used by restaurants to manage operations. In the past year, Chicago-based Groupon …


Troy Hunt: How Your Data Is Collected and Commoditised via “free” Online Services

I get a lot of people popping up with data breaches for Have I been pwned (HIBP). There’s an interesting story in that itself actually, one I must get around to writing in the future as folks come from all sorts of different backgrounds and offer up data they’ve come across in various locations. Recently someone sent me a list of various data breaches they’d obtained, including this one: …


Scammers and Spammers: Inside Online Dating’s Sex Bot Con Job

Christopher Russell owned a small bar in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, but, like a lot people these days, figured he had better odds hooking up online. Russell was 40 and going through a divorce, so he wasn’t seeking anything serious. When he saw an ad for the dating site Ashley Madison, which boasted 36 million members and the tagline, “Life is short, have an affair,” he decided to check it out.