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Lawsuit Alleging Facebook Tagging Violates Biometric Privacy Moves Forward
Facebook Inc. users who say the social network's facial scanning flouts their privacy rights won the first round of a court fight. A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday rejected Facebook's ...
Competitive Advantage to Asia as Employees Become Increasingly Engaged and Fulfilled: Aon Hewitt
Employees are increasingly engaged and more fulfilled around the world, though they remain happiest in Latin America compared to other markets, according to Aon Hewitt's latest report. Worth, ...
The U.S. Mortgage Insurance Market Has a New Player: JLT Re
Reinsurance broker JLT Re has launched a new operation in North America – JLT Re Global Mortgage Solutions — to offer insurance and reinsurance to government-sponsored entities, mortgage ...
Russian Criminals May be Selling Hundreds of Millions of Hacked Email Accounts
Hundreds of millions of hacked usernames and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia's criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters. The discovery of 272.3 ...
Allstate’s Q1 Net Income Plunged, with Hailstorms to Blame
The 2016 first quarter (and two severe hailstorms) left its mark on the Allstate Corp., with net income during the period plunging more than 65 percent. Echoing trends from other property/casualty ...
U.S. Mortage Insurance Brightens an Uneven 2016 Global Market: S&P
Mortgage insurers in the U.S. are set for a robust 2016, a bright spot in an otherwise uneven global market, where success will depend on the region of the world in which carriers are doing business, ...
MAPFRE Promotes CEO Credited with Greatly Expanding U.S. Operations
MAPFRE S.A. made two big changes to its global executive roster, with one executive in particular gaining a greater role after successfully growing the insurer's U.S. operations. The Spanish ...
Russian Computer Hacker Rewarded for Aiding U.S. Prosecutors
A Russian who admitted creating a computer virus that infected more than 1 million computers worldwide was spared from additional prison time on top of the the three years he's already spent locked ...