Attorneys general from twelve US states have have filed in Indiana last Monday the first-ever joint cross-state HIPAA lawsuit against a healthcare provider for a data breach last 2015. The lawsuit accuses the Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) and its subsidiary NoMoreClipboard of failing to take adequate...
A new website called Distributed Denial of Secrets has recently been launched against the backdrop of new high-profile data breaches including Marriott’s security incident which compromised the personal information of 500 million of its customers. Spokesperson Emma Best says that the website is intended to be...
The US Census Bureau recently announced that it will be enforcing stronger privacy protections by formally adopting a new framework that uses differential privacy to reduce risks. While the census has always added some uncertainty to its data, “differential privacy,” can determine the amount of randomness...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien recently wrote a letter to Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, warning that Canada has reached a critical “tipping point” in the adoption of technologies that may be putting privacy and democratic values at stake. Therrien said that he is troubled that long-standing privacy...
Chinese gadget manufacturer VTech is promoting a patch for its flagship tablet, the Storio Max, after the BBC had discovered a vulnerability which could have allowed hackers to take control of the device and spy on its user. Also called the InnoTab Max in the...
Researchers from UC Davis School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School recently expressed their concerns on the use of telehealth by retail outlets such as Walmart and Walgreens. Peter Yellowlees, MD, professor of psychiatry at UC Davis Health, said that telehealth, which uses technologies like smart...
A recent study by privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo revealed that Google is still personalizing search results even if users are not logged into their Google accounts or using Chrome’s Incognito mode. Conducted earlier in June at the height of the US midterm election, DuckDuckGo found that...
A number of security experts are reportedly voicing their concern over Marriott’s severely inadequate response to its recent data breach, and some have already taken measures to compensate for the hotel chain’s lackluster reaction to the incident. The hotel company reportedly sent customers a notification email...
Australian Attorney-General Christian Porter said this week that he wants law enforcement agencies such as the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), Australian Federal Police (AFP), and state police forces to immediately make use of the provisions in the Assistance and Access Bill. Once the legislation is...
Quora disclosed this week that hackers had been able to break into its servers and stole the user data of around 100 million users. Quora said that private data including account information (names, email addresses, encrypted passwords), and both public and non-public content and actions...