Targeted advertising may face additional restrictions following a ruling by the top European Union court that social media giant Meta cannot indefinitely retain user data. Nor can it use data for advertising "without distinction as to type of data," the European Court of Justice said Friday.
A misconfigured web server and the exposure of sensitive information for nearly 600,000 prison inmates in 2022 will cost medical claims processing company CorrectCare $6.49 million to settle a consolidated proposed class action lawsuit, according to court records.
The U.K. data regulator fined the Northern Ireland's Police Service 750,000 pounds following a 2023 data breach that exposed personal details of the entire workforce. The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office determined the breach occurred when police attempted to respond to two open records requests.
Four more European Union nations have joined a United States government-led initiative launched in March to tackle spyware misuse globally. The move came amid growing criticism of the European Commission's failure to curb the EU's prolific spyware market.
A Pennsylvania-based healthcare system that was hacked by ransomware group BlackCat in 2023 and extorted over stolen exam photos of breast cancer patients posted to a data leak site has agreed to pay $65 million under a proposed settlement of a lawsuit affecting 134,000 patients and employees.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday published a report detailing how the largest social media and streaming services surveil both users and nonusers across the web while collecting vast troves of data, pointing to significant privacy concerns for children and teens.
Recent mega data breaches involving third-party vendors - such as the Change Healthcare cyberattack - are intensifying the spotlight on critical security risk management and governance issues for business associates and other suppliers, said regulatory attorney Rachel Rose.
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An AI-powered virtual care provider's unsecured database allegedly exposed thousands of sensitive mental health and substance abuse treatment records between patients and their counselors on the internet - where they were available to anyone, said the security researcher who discovered the trove.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Biden administration, alleging that "unlawful" HIPAA Privacy Rule regulations are hindering the state's law enforcement investigations into abortion cases and other reproductive health care cases.
The Dutch data regulator is the latest agency to fine artificial intelligence company Clearview AI over its facial data harvesting and other privacy violations of GDPR rules, joining regulatory agencies in France, Italy, Greece and the United Kingdom.
A vendor that provides information systems and transcription services to radiology practices is alerting 411,037 people of a hack discovered last December involving the theft of sensitive data. The firm already faces at least four proposed federal class action lawsuits related to the hack.
Dating apps collect and sell user location data, leading to significant privacy risks. Users are vulnerable to stalking, harassment and even prosecution in certain countries, says Victor Le Pochat, postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven. Pochat and Dhont called for improved data protection measures.
As the chief privacy officer at UChicago Medicine, Karen Habercoss likes to tell her peers, "I know more about security than the average bear." And her knowledge has been put to the test in recent years, with the adjustment to remote work, telehealth and digital transformation.
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