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Woman's ID stolen 15 times after Equifax breach - WAFB 9 News Baton Rouge, Louisiana News, Weather, Sports

Authored by wafb.com

Katie Van Fleet said she is trying to get her life back together after her identity was stolen multiple times as a result of the Equifax breach.

SEATTLE (KCPQ/CNN) - Katie Van Fleet said she’s spent months trying to regain her stolen identity.

“I don’t know if my information’s been sold to the dark web or wherever this goes,” she said.

“I keep receiving letters from Kohl’s, from Macy’s, from Old Navy saying, ‘Thank you for your application.’”.

Instead, Van Fleet and her attorney believe her personal data was stolen during the massive Equifax security breach.

Fleming has filed a class-action lawsuit against Equifax, saying the company was negligent when it lost private information on more than 140 million Americans.

People who want to freeze their credit should do so with all three major credit reporting agencies - Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. »

Facebook denies 'listening' to conversations

Authored by bbc.com

A Facebook executive has denied the social network uses a device's microphone to listen to what users are saying and then send them relevant ads.

Anecdotally, many people report seeing adverts which appear to be related to recent, real-life conversations.

When another Twitter user asked him if that included Instagram, which is also owned by Facebook, he replied, "Yes.". »

Gay Men To Receive Scottish Government Apology

Authored by value.press

Nicola Sturgeon , the current first minister of Scotland , will represent the Scottish government in apologizing to gay men convicted of now-abolished sexual crimes.

The apology will happen on November 7 at Holyrood , where the new legislation will be announced.

A spokesperson of the Scottish government said, "The apology will be made on behalf of the Scottish government for the treatment of homosexual men under previous governments and will coincide with the introduction of legislation to provide people convicted under these laws an automatic pardon.". »

Depression tied to shorter lifespan

Authored by reuters.com

Depression was associated with an increased risk of premature death in every decade of the study for men, and starting in the 1990s for women.

In the current study, however, researchers found a link between depression and premature death even after accounting for things like obesity, smoking and drinking habits.

“This study suggests that this increased risk of death extends to other causes of premature death and persists over decades,” Stewart said by email. »

TV finales that surprise/disappoint

Authored by imgur.com

Series that have low standard deviation but large differences in the finale rating could be argued to be the most "surprising".

Television rating data was collected using IMDbPY ( https://pypi.python.org/pypi/IMDbPY ) and visualized in Jupyter ( https://jupyter.org/ ) using matplotlib ( http://matplotlib.org/ ).

* Psych's finale is the 2nd from last episode (last episode on IMDB is a wrap party show). »