Monthly Archives: August 2022

Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show. Although the charges against the two women are based on established…

Certification Marks: The Tie that Binds Scotch Whisky, the International Ladies Garment Worker’s Union and a Rated R Motion Picture

A Certification Mark is a name, symbol and/or logo used by groups (associations, unions, organizations, trade groups, etc.) to show that the product or service to which it is attached complies with industry or associations standards. A Certification Mark can be used to indicate that a product claiming to be from a region, is in…

India nudges lending apps to provide greater transparency, control to consumers

The Reserve Bank of India published guidelines for digital lending firms, recommending more transparency and control to customers as the South Asian nation’s central bank moves to take further steps to crackdown on sketchy practices and creditors. The guidelines, released Wednesday (PDF), say that lenders will not be permitted to increase a customer’s credit limit…

Shudder’s eerie ‘Raven’s Hollow’ trailer sees a 19th century town hiding a dark secret

Sometimes it’s more effective when trailers — especially the scary ones — don’t actually tell us all that much. That’s certainly the case in Shudder‘s trailer for Christopher Hatton’s Raven’s Hollow, which sees Edgar Allen Poe (William Mosely) as a West Point cadet, making an unpleasant discovery in a small upstate New York community in…