The FTC accuses homework help app Chegg of security lapses, including ~40M users’ personal info being stolen in 2018; Chegg agrees to boost its security (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

Bloomberg:
Apple’s unionized Maryland store filed a complaint with the NLRB after Apple withheld medical, educational, and other new benefits given to non-union workers  —  Apple Inc.’s unionized retail store in Maryland is filing a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board after it was excluded …

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
Facebook will remove religious and political views, addresses, and “Interested in” field, which indicates sexual preference, from user profiles on December 1  —  The update to the world’s biggest social network will prevent you from broadcasting certain details in your bio, a farewell to the early days of social media.

Erin Mulvaney / Wall Street Journal:
Ericsson’s Vonage agrees to pay $100M to settle FTC allegations over creating obstacles to canceling internet-based phone services and charging unexpected fees  —  Agreement with Ericsson subsidiary represents largest penalty in FTC enforcement push to stop companies from creating obstacles to consumer cancellations

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Mudge details Twitter’s lack of logging, ongoing and ignored attempts to hack its systems, that it could “grade its own homework” to appease the FTC, and more  —  A ticking bomb of security vulnerabilities.  Covering up security failures.  Duping regulators and misleading lawmakers.

Anuran Sadhu / Reuters:
Stolen data of 600,000 Indians sold on bot markets so far – study  —  Around five million people globally have had their data stolen and sold on the bot market till date, of which 600,000 are from India, making it the worst affected country, according to one of the world’s largest VPN serice providers NordVPN.

Anuran Sadhu / Reuters:
Stolen data of 600,000 Indians sold on bot markets so far – study  —  Around five million people globally have had their data stolen and sold on the bot market till date, of which 600,000 are from India, making it the worst affected country, according to one of the world’s largest VPN serice providers NordVPN.