Anne Flaherty

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T-Mobile accused of making money off bogus billing

Anne Flaherty · July 2, 2014 7:16 am

FILE - This Sept. 12, 2012 file photo shows a man using a cellphone as he passes a T-Mobile store in New York. T-Mobile USA knowingly made hundreds of millions off its customers in bogus charges, a federal regulator alleged Tuesday in a complaint that is likely to damage the reputation of a household name in wireless communications. In its complaint filed in federal court, the Federal Trade Commission claimed that T-Mobile billed consumers for subscriptions to premium text services such as $10-per-month horoscopes that were never authorized by the account holder. The FTC alleges that T-Mobile collected as much as 40 percent of the charges, even after being alerted by other customers that the subscriptions were scams. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Regulators accuse T-Mobile of bogus billing

Anne Flaherty · July 1, 2014 10:21 pm

FTC says flashlight app left consumers in the dark

Anne Flaherty · December 5, 2013 8:17 pm

Shoppers inspect a handbag at the Macy's Herald Square flagship store, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013, in New York. Instead of waiting for Black Friday, which is typically the year's biggest shopping day, more than a dozen major retailers are opening on Thanksgiving this year. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Consumer behavior aggressively tracked this season

Anne Flaherty · November 30, 2013 3:20 am

Technology reveals what kind of shopper you are

Anne Flaherty · November 28, 2013 2:54 pm

‘Revenge porn’ victims press for new laws

Anne Flaherty · November 15, 2013 5:34 pm

FBI wants hacker who helped catch cheating lovers

Anne Flaherty · November 7, 2013 5:24 pm

Sarah Ball, a victim of cyber bullying during her high school years, sits for a portrait at her home on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, in Spring Hill, Fla. Ball, now a student at a nearby community college, maintains a Facebook site called "Hernando Unbreakable", an anti-bullying page and mentors local kids identified by the schools as victims of cyberbullying. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco)

More victims of online abuse reach out to parents

Anne Flaherty · October 24, 2013 7:59 am

This photo from video taken Oct. 9, 2013, shows Tim Davis on the phone of his pharmacy in New Brighton, Pa. Davis uses several apps and three wearable devices to track his physical activity, vitals and calorie intake. When Davis tipped the scales at 318 pounds two years ago, he bought a Fitbit gadget to track his physical activity and the Lose It! app on his phone to track calories. He bought a Wi-Fi-enabled scale that published his daily weight on his Twitter feed and turned to other apps to track his pulse, blood pressure, daily moods and medications. At one point, Davis said he was using 15 different apps and gadgets, which he said helped him drop 64 pounds by that following year. (AP Photo/Noel Waghorn)

Need motivation? There’s an app for that

Anne Flaherty · October 16, 2013 9:03 pm

People take pictures in front of the steps of the closed Lincoln Memorial, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Washington. The museums that draw millions of visitors to the National Mall closed their doors Tuesday, memorials were barricaded and trash will go uncollected in the nation's most-visited national park due to the first government shutdown in 17 years. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Stop being so stupid, voters tweet to Congress

Anne Flaherty · October 2, 2013 6:55 pm

INFLUENCE GAME: Industry sounds alarm on piracy

Anne Flaherty · September 19, 2013 10:03 am

David House poses with his laptop computer at his Somerville, Mass. home on Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. Newly disclosed U.S. government files provide an inside look at the Homeland Security DepartmentÃ?s practice of seizing and searching electronic devices at the border without showing reasonable suspicion of a crime or getting a judgeÃ?s approval. The documents describe the case of House, who had befriended Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the soldier convicted of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks. U.S. agents quietly waited for months for House to leave the country then seized his laptop, thumb drive, digital camera and cellphone when he re-entered the United States. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

New details in how the feds take laptops at border

Anne Flaherty · September 10, 2013 1:14 pm