Enlarge / UnitedHealth Group Inc. headquarters stands in Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S., on Wednesday, March 9, 2016. reader comments 402 with 211 posters participating Share this story Doctors and hospitals are condemning plans by UnitedHealthcare—the country’s largest health insurance company—to retroactively deny emergency medical care coverage to members if UHC decides the reason for the emergency ..
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Serhii Ivashchuk/Getty Images reader comments 122 with 64 posters participating Share this story Facebook is the most commonly used social media platform for human sex trafficking recruitment in the US, according to a new report published by the Human Trafficking Institute. Last year, 59 percent of victims in active cases who were recruited through social ..
reader comments 143 with 103 posters participating Share this story The major record labels yesterday filed another lawsuit demanding that an Internet service provider terminate many more subscribers for alleged copyright violations. Universal, Sony, and Warner sued Frontier Communications in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that the DSL and ..
Enlarge / El Salvador now says both US dollars and bitcoin are legal tender. reader comments 310 with 132 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, El Salvador’s president signed into law a proposal to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, making the Central American nation the first in the world to officially use the cryptocurrency. ..
Enlarge / Googleplex office in Palo Alto, California in January 2018. Getty Images | Ingus Kruklitis reader comments 117 with 75 posters participating Share this story The state of Ohio sued Google today in an unusual complaint that seeks a legal declaration that Google is a common carrier and public utility under Ohio law. “Google ..
Enlarge / A digital Trojan horse. Getty Images | posteriori reader comments 326 with 162 posters participating Share this story The Federal Bureau of Investigation created a company that sold encrypted devices to hundreds of organized crime syndicates, resulting in 800 arrests in 16 countries, law-enforcement authorities announced today. The FBI and agencies in other ..
reader comments 130 with 85 posters participating Share this story Amazon and Walmart are ramping up their efforts to grab market share in the $360 billion prescription drug market in the US. Today, Amazon announced that Prime members can receive a six-month supply of several widely prescribed drugs, starting at $6. Many drugs are pricier ..
Getty Images reader comments 183 with 75 posters participating Share this story The FBI said it has seized $2.3 million paid to the ransomware attackers who paralyzed the network of Colonial Pipeline and touched off gasoline and jet fuel supply disruptions up and down the East Coast last month. In dollar amounts, the sum represents ..
reader comments 136 with 95 posters participating Share this story A billion-dollar judgment in a piracy lawsuit involving a major Internet service provider could force ISPs to terminate more customer accounts and “punish the innocent and guilty alike,” advocacy groups have warned. Urging an appeals court to overturn the ruling, the groups wrote that “upholding ..
reader comments 41 with 31 posters participating, including story author Share this story Google is paying a $268 million fine and, in a first, has agreed to overhaul its advertising platform to settle an antitrust probe in France. After a two-year investigation, the French Competition Authority found that Google had used its ad-management platform for ..
