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About 69,000 Amazon Prime members in two D.C. ZIP codes will get back nearly half their membership fees after Amazon quietly excluded them from fast delivery
D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced on October 1, 2026, that Amazon will pay $8.25 million to settle claims that it secretly cut two Washington...
MDLIVE patient portal users with Facebook or Google accounts can claim up to $15 from a privacy settlement capped at $3.5 million by December 1
People who signed in to MDLIVE’s online patient portal between May 30, 2023, and August 11, 2025, while holding an active Facebook or Google account,...
CVS privacy settlement pays up to $5 without proof and up to $10 with proof from a $20.5 million fund, and claims close November 16
CVS has agreed to a $20.5 million settlement of a lawsuit over how its websites and mobile app handled visitors’ data, and anyone in the...
Google, Flo Health and Flurry have agreed to pay a combined $59.5 million to settle Flo period-tracker data-sharing claims, with claim forms due October 15, 2026
Google, Flo Health and the analytics company Flurry have agreed to pay a combined $59.5 million to settle a class action over data that the...
23andMe’s $46.75 million breach settlement paid approved claimants on September 29 and 30
The payments from 23andMe’s $46.75 million data breach settlement have gone out. The claims administrator says every submitted claim has now been reviewed and that...
Telmate, the prison phone and messaging company, set aside $4.225 million for people exposed in its August 2020 breach, with claims due December 21
Telmate, the company that provides phone and messaging services to people in jail and prison, has agreed to put $4.225 million into a fund for...
Commerce barred stockpiling polysilicon from September 22 until December 3, ahead of the new import rules
A Commerce Department temporary final rule that took effect on September 22 bars importers from stockpiling polysilicon and its derivatives, and the bar runs until...
Microsoft will patch Windows 10 until October 2027, and the consumer extension costs $30 or nothing depending on the route taken
Microsoft’s consumer page for Windows 10 Extended Security Updates puts the end of the program at October 12, 2027, a full two years after support...
The IRS replaced IRS2Go with a free app showing refunds, balances and notices
IRS2Go, the agency’s mobile app for more than a decade, was replaced on Sept. 25 by a single app simply called the IRS app, which...
Iowa’s Meta settlement directs $68 million toward consumer and child-safety harms
Iowa will direct roughly $68 million of its $126 million Meta settlement toward the consumer and child-safety harms at the center of its lawsuit, Attorney...
Iowa is setting aside $25 million from Meta’s settlement for affected Facebook and Instagram users
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said on September 14, 2026, that $25 million from the state’s $126 million share of the multistate Meta settlement will...
The FTC and 22 states say Amazon hid an advertising surcharge that got passed to shoppers, worst on Prime Day
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Medicare will email the handbook as a PDF each fall to anyone who asks
Medicare will email a PDF copy of its “Medicare & You” handbook every fall to any beneficiary who switches to the electronic edition at Medicare.gov/go-digital,...
Medicare.gov now lists private health apps that connect to a beneficiary’s Medicare record
Medicare.gov’s new health-apps directory tells beneficiaries that every listed app has been independently verified to meet high privacy and security standards before it can touch...
Buy-now-pay-later loans are starting to show up on credit reports, where a missed payment can dent a score
Buy-now-pay-later loans, once a form of credit largely invisible to lenders, are increasingly landing on the credit reports maintained by the three nationwide bureaus, and...
Walmart is replacing paper price tags with digital screens in every U.S. store by year’s end, and shoppers fear prices could change by the hour
Walmart has started replacing paper price tags with small digital screens across its stores nationwide, a rollout the company says will be complete at every...
AT&T’s proposed $177 million data-breach settlement would cover millions of current and former customers, pending court approval
AT&T’s proposed $177 million settlement over two 2024 data breaches remains stuck awaiting a federal judge’s approval more than seven months after the fairness hearing...
Months after the first checks, AT&T’s data-throttling refunds are reaching holdouts through Zelle
Former AT&T customers who never collected an earlier refund are getting another chance, this time by direct deposit. The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments...
Google device owners have until August 27 to file for part of a $68 million privacy settlement
A $68 million class-action settlement over how Google Assistant handled private voice recordings is entering its final stretch, and the window to file a claim...
Flo Health will pay a $59.5 million privacy settlement, and no proof is required to claim before October 15
Millions of people who used the Flo period- and pregnancy-tracking app several years ago can claim a share of a $59.5 million privacy settlement without...