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The GDPR, in effect for five years on May 25, has influenced the U.S. data privacy laws and is likely to exert itself when AI creates a new set of privacy challenges. Image: Lucadp/Adobe Stock Fundamentally, the General Data Protection Regulation’s right-to-privacy focus — giving people provenance over their data . . . Read more
The Microsoft 365 tool that tracked employee usage of applications like Outlook, Skype and Teams was widely condemned by privacy experts. Microsoft has announced what it calls a more privacy-friendly version of its Productivity Score enterprise feature, following backlash from security experts who condemned it as a “full-fledged workplace surveillance . . . Read more
Researchers show the promise of Federated Learning to protect patient privacy and improve healthcare outcomes across the world. For researchers and physicians the mountains of data hospitals and healthcare systems hold could be a goldmine for artificial intelligence and machine learning, but data privacy concerns and regulations have kept scientists . . . Read more
Bug hunters at GitHub Security Labs help shore up German contact tracing app security, crediting open source collaboration. A security vulnerability in the infrastructure underlying Germany’s official COVID-19 contact-tracing app, called the Corona-Warn-App (CWA), would have allowed pre-authenticated remote code execution (RCE). Researcher Alvaro Muñoz wrote in a report this . . . Read more
Cybercriminals have already reportedly posted the details of 300 Vastaamo patients – and are threatening to release the data of others unless a ransom is paid.
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The NSA argued its mass surveillance program stopped terrorist attacks – but a new U.S. court ruling found that this is not, and may have even been unconstitutional.
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The lawsuit alleged that the IBM-owned Weather Channel mobile app did not let users know it was selling their geolocation data.
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