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Maria Diaz/ZDNETApple and Experian just announced that Experian consumer credit reports will include Apple Pay Later loan information beginning today. Experian reports that this makes Apple the first major buy now, pay later (BNPL) service provider to directly give the credit reporting agency loan information and payment history. Loans borrowed today will appear on the borrower's Experian credit report with a BNPL designation starting on March 1, but this data won't affect credit scores -- at least not initially.…

The parent company that owns a controlling stake in Paramount, CBS, and thousands of theaters across the U.S. got hacked late last year, but it took them a full trip around the sun to let any of the tens of thousands of impacted customers know that their data was potentially compromised. Freewrite Alpha Is the Little, Expensive E-Typewriter That CouldThe massive entertainment conglomerate National Amusements relayed a few scant details of the hack to the Maine Attorney General, as first reported by TechCrunch. A total of…

Big companies are winning appeals to overturn regulatory decisions that allege they violated European privacy rules, potentially carving out a path for more businesses to challenge similar sanctions.Courts in the U.K., Spain, Italy and Germany sided with companies including Experian PLC, Amazon. com Inc. and Italian energy giant Enel SpA in recent rulings, in some cases striking down multimillion-dollar fines and reaffirming…

Cash rules everything around mePhoto: Tapati Rinchumrus (Shutterstock)You hear about class-action lawsuits all the time, like this one filed against Apple (based on a Gizmodo story!), or this other one against Apple (or this one or this one). Part of the reason is they’re so lucrative for lawyers; a “class” is a group of people who have the same grievance against a company, which means there’s a lot of money involved if the company loses or settles. But when there’s money on the table, it’s not guaranteed you’ll receive a…

Photo: Popel Arseniy (Shutterstock)NFL season is almost over, which means the Super Bowl is nigh. We’re still waiting to see who will duke it out at Super Bowl 57. Last year’s Super Bowl attracted over 112 million users, and this year could bring bigger numbers with the advent of streaming everything.Even if you don’t care for football, Super Bowl 57 will feature Rihanna on stage for the first time in years, plus performances from Babyface and Sheryl Lee Ralph. Here’s how you can watch Super Bowl 57.When is Super Bowl…

American Airlines experienced a breach of its customer and employee data in early July. The company announced the hack more than two months later in a letter to affected customers sent on Friday, and first shared as a PDF by Bleeping Computer.“The personal information involved in this incident may have included your name, date of birth, mailing address, phone number, email address, driver’s license number, passport number, and/or certain medical information you provided,” the airline wrote to customers. Though, the…