Lauren Goode: Sam said that? Zoë Schiffer: To his employees. Lauren Goode: Interesting. Michael Calore: He also came out on X and said something about, “I wish he would compete.” Zoë Schiffer: Oh, yeah. He was like, “I wish he would compete in the marketplace, not in the courtroom.” Lauren Goode: Yeah. Sam said in…
Katie Drummond: Fascinating. Well, we’re going to take a short break. When we come back, we’re going to pick up where we left off and talk about how concerned Americans actually should be about their privacy and about DOGE accessing their data. Welcome back to Uncanny Valley, I’m WIRED’s Global Editorial Director Katie Drummond. I’m…
Those cases involve several of the nation’s largest financial institutions, including the banks behind the payment app Zelle, over nearly $1 billion in allegedly unchecked consumer fraud on the platform; the bank Capital One, over an alleged scheme involving interest rates on millions of customers’ savings accounts; and Walmart, for allegedly opening accounts for more…