Apple agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the smart device giant of illegally recording audio through its Siri virtual assistant and sharing extracts with human reviewers. Class members who purchased Siri-enabled devices could receive $20 per device.
Apple's artificial intelligence-led photo analyzer is raising privacy concerns months after the company appears to have enabled the feature by default. It uses a combination of on-device machine learning and encrypted cloud-based processing.
They have been CISOs and privacy officers who headed cybersecurity initiatives at some of the top tech companies in the world. How do Edna Conway, Michelle Dennedy and Wendy Nather feel about AI BOMs, privacy initiatives and the threat landscape emerging in 2025? They open up in this exclusive panel.
Organizations are likely to transition from siloed privacy and artificial intelligence governance teams to unified data governance groups over the next 18 months as the market understands the intertwined nature of privacy and AI, said Nader Henein, vice president analyst with Gartner.
A security snafu at a Volkswagen subsidiary exposed vehicle information and ownership details on approximately 800,000 cars, including precise location data and owners' personal profiles. A whistleblower found a vulnerability in the cloud storage accounts of Volkswagen subsidiary Cariad.
Fully homomorphic encryption can safeguard highly sensitive health data related to rare diseases, underserved populations and clinical trials as it is shared with medical researchers, said Kurt Rohloff, co-founder and CTO of Duality Technologies, who said projects to apply it are underway right now.
Washington and Nevada were among states enacting new data privacy laws in 2024, and that trend among states will likely continue into 2025 as the next presidential administration comes into office promising to reduce federal regulations, said attorney Melissa Crespo of law firm Morrison Foerster.
About 75% of healthcare sector entities that suffered a ransomware attack over the past year were targeted on a weekend or holiday, highlighting the need for organizations to bolster staffing and related strategies during these vulnerable times, said Jeff Wichman of security firm Semperis.
The U.K. data regulator blasted Google Thursday for a changes to policies governing online advertising the government agency says amount to bestowing permission to track users by the indelible fingerprint of their devices. "Businesses do not have free rein to use fingerprinting," the office said.
ConnectOnCall, which operates a communication platform that connects patients with healthcare providers during off-hours, is reaching out to nearly 1 million people about a breach that compromised their sensitive health information. The Wilmington, Del.-based firm reported the breach on Dec. 11.
UnitedHealth Group is facing scores of proposed class action lawsuits involving the massively disruptive cyberattack and mega data breach at its Change Healthcare IT services unit this year. But now the company faces the first in what will likely be many more lawsuits by state attorneys general.
Potentially hundreds of thousands of Rhode Islanders are affected by an attack on RIBridges, the state's IT system for health and human service benefits, including Medicaid. Cybercriminal group Brain Cipher claims to have stolen 1 terabyte of data from Deloitte, which manages the RIBridges system.
Cybercriminals claim they stole 17 million patient records from a southern California regional healthcare provider that is still struggling with IT and phone systems outages that have been disrupting patient care since the organization was hit by a ransomware attack on Dec. 1.
New York State has levied a $550,000 fine against a healthcare group that tried - but failed - to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability in a Citrix NetScaler appliance used for telemedicine. Hackers exploited the flaw, stealing 196 gigabytes of data in an incident affecting 242,000 people.
A breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 1.6 million patients of a Puerto Rico-based clearinghouse has led to a $250,000 financial settlement with federal regulations for multiple HIPAA violations. The 2019 leak has cost Inmediata Health $2.7 million in fines and civil settlements.
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