data privacy

A year ago, I visited TikTok’s US headquarters to preview its new “transparency center,” a central piece of its multibillion-dollar effort to convince the US its meme factory isn’t a . That effort has failed. The company’s negotiations with the government stalled out and the company is now facing its most serious threat to a future in the United States yet.Last Wednesday, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill that, if passed into law, would force ByteDance to sell TikTok or face an outright ban in…

Glassdoor has a history of working to keep its users’ identities private, but there are concerns about these identity changes. “Glassdoor has been second to none in defending their user’s First Amendment rights,” says Aaron Mackey, a senior staff attorney with the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation. He represented a Glassdoor user in a case initiated in 2019 when their former employer, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, attempted to unmask the authors of reviews, alleging that former workers had violated…

Securing big healthcare data: Strategies for protecting patient privacy The imperative of safeguarding healthcare data has never been more pressing, given the increasing frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks targeting medical institutions. As the custodians of sensitive patient information, healthcare organizations face a formidable challenge in ensuring data security while upholding patient privacy rights. In this comprehensive guide, we delve into the multifaceted landscape of healthcare data…

Reddit said ahead of its IPO next week that licensing user posts to Google and others for AI projects could bring in $203 million of revenue over the next few years. The community-driven platform was forced to disclose Friday that US regulators already have questions about that new line of business.In a regulatory filing, Reddit said that it received a letter from the US Federal Trade Commision on Thursday asking about “our sale, licensing, or sharing of user-generated content with third parties to train AI models.”The…

Your car insurance provider apparently knows much more about you than you might think — and it’s using that information to inform your rates. According to a new report from the New York Times, new cars with internet-enabled features are tracking your driving habits, and that data is being shared with data brokers who then sell the information to car insurance companies. This is all done regardless of the driver’s involvement. These days, when you buy a car, you often have the option to lower your insurance rates by…

Image Source : GOOGLE LENS Google Lens Google Lens, an image recognition technology developed by Google has rolled out the highly-requested feature to save your Visual Search History, so you can revisit any image you have analysed in the future. At present, when you take a photo by using the shutter button in the Google Lens app, the picture is sent to Google…

Silence Laboratories, which builds products to help enterprises and companies ensure data privacy through technologies like multiparty computation (MPC), has raised $4.1 million in a funding round.The round was led by Pi Ventures and Kira Studio, along with other angel investors. The newly-acquired funds are earmarked for scaling up its tech and business team, and to invest in research and development initiatives, the company said.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT…

“How will the internet operate without cookies?”“When are they going?”“Which ones are getting eliminated?”For the last six months, Rinku Ghosh has been fielding queries like these from clients panicking about the phasing out of third-party cookies. Ghosh is the COO of Lemnisk, a Bengaluru-based customer data platform. In her line of work, a cookie isn’t a sweet treat; it is a text file spawned by a web browser when a user visits a site, capturing their login details, preferences and browsing history. Elevate Your Tech…

The “P” in HIPAA doesn’t stand for privacy. It’s one of the first things a lot of experts will say when asked to clear up any misconceptions about the health data law. Instead, it stands for portability — it’s called the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act —and describes how information can be transferred between providers. With misinterpretations of HIPAA starting with just its name, misunderstandings of what the law actually does greatly impact our ability to recognize how the kinds of data do and don't…

Image: Adobe/Andrii Global data highlights a concerning trend, where Australian organisations are starting to fall behind in a “trust gap” between what customers expect them to do with data and privacy and what is actually happening. New data shows that 90% of people want to see organisations transform to properly manage data and risk. With a regulatory environment that has fallen behind, for Australian organisations to deliver this, they will need to move faster than the regulatory environment. Australian…