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Medical data sharing: Are we there yet?
The move toward ubiquitous electronic health record sharing across the US is accelerating, but obstacles remain for providers, payers, patients, and other stakeholders.
This is why personal encryption is vital to the future of business
In an era characterized by increasingly complex attacks, you cannot distinguish between personal and business encryption — it needs to be universal.
Google Bard launches in EU, overcoming data privacy concerns in the region
Five months after Google announced it was launching its own generative AI chatbot, the company has addressed the data privacy issues that had previously made it inaccessible to EU residents.
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EU-US Data Privacy Framework to face serious legal challenges, experts say
Despite the US and EU endorsement of the new Data Privacy Framework, privacy experts remain skeptical that the agreement will survive legal challenges.
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces new class action lawsuit over data privacy
A new lawsuit against OpenAI could decide whether the company’s use of training data scraped from the public internet may continue.
Governments worldwide grapple with regulation to rein in AI dangers
As generative AI revolutionizes tech, governments around the world are trying to come up with regulations that encourage its benefits while minimizing risks such as bias and disinformation.
Google killer, killed: Neeva and the limits of privacy as a philosophy
A search startup that revolved around providing an ad-free, privacy-centric alternative to Google is calling it quits — and it's well worth our while to contemplate why.
Meta fined $1.3B for violating EU GDPR data transfer rules on privacy
The Irish Data Protection Commission has levied a record-breaking fine against Facebook's parent company, Meta, for transferring data to the US without data privacy safeguards.
Senate hearings see a clear and present danger from AI — and opportunities
Two Senate committees met separately Tuesday with industry experts, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, on how to control artificial intelligence as it barrels down the development highway, threatening privacy and rights as it goes.
Q&A: At MIT event, Tom Siebel sees ‘terrifying’ consequences from using AI
At MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital conference, Tom Siebel, the CEO of C3 AI and founder of CRM vendor Siebel Systems, said he's been asked by government and military officials to create AI for what he sees as unethical...
ChatGPT returns to Italy after OpenAI tweaks privacy disclosures, controls
OpenAI has relaunched ChatGPT in Italy after making changes requested by the country's data privacy regulator.
ChatGPT learns to forget: OpenAI implements data privacy controls
New “history off” mode is available now, and more robust ChatGPT Business subscription model is coming in the next few months.
EU privacy regulators to create task force to investigate ChatGPT
The move comes after a number of data privacy regulators from across Europe raised concerns about whether the chatbot is compliant with the EU's GDPR privacy law.
UK fines TikTok $15.8 million for GDPR violation of children's privacy
Chinese-owned social media sensation TikTok has been fined almost $16 million for violating provisions of the UK’s General Data Protection Regulation.
UK data regulator issues warning over generative AI data protection concerns
The UK's Information Commission’s Office reminds organizations that data protection laws still apply to unfiltered data used to train large language models.
Legislation to rein in AI’s use in hiring grows
States and municipalities are eyeing restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence-based bots to find, screen, interview, and hire job candidates because of privacy and bias issues. Some states have already put laws on the books....
EU parliamentary committee says 'no' to EU-US data privacy framework
Progress on ratifying the Trans-Atlantic Data Policy Framework hit a snag, as a parliamentary committee rejected a draft decision to adopt the pact, saying it did not comply with the EU's GDPR privacy regulations.
ACLU, public defenders push back against Google giving police your mobile data
Geofence warrants that allow law enforcement to collect location data on mobile device users for criminal probes are under attack by civil rights groups and public defenders; they say the warrants are fishing expeditions that expose...
Apple marks Data Privacy Week with in-store privacy training, more
Apple is celebrating Data Privacy Week by helping iPhone users learn how to use the privacy protection tools they already have in hand.
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