US may tie social media to visa applications

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  The Trump administration has said it wants to start collecting the social media history of nearly everyone seeking a visa to enter the US. The proposal, which comes from the state department, would require most visa applicants to give details of their Facebook and Twitter accounts. They would have to disclose all social media…

Visa Tests Biometric Fingerprint Reader on Cards

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  NEW YORK — Fingerprints can unlock doors, phones and more, but are consumers ready to pay with them? Visa, the financial services giant, thinks so. The company, which backs credit, debit and prepaid cards, has started pilot tests of cards that have a built-in fingerprint reader. Users place their finger on the sensor area…

Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm that worked on the Trump campaign

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Facebook announced late Friday that it had suspended the account of Strategic Communication Laboratories, and its political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica — which used Facebook data to target voters for President Donald Trump’s campaign in the 2016 election. In a statement released by Paul Grewal, the company’s vice president and deputy general counsel, Facebook…