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Discover how HealthEdge deals with security and data privacy in the face of rapid expansion. "Healthcare is beset by ransomware gangs and this led to an increase in confirmed data breaches in 2022," said Suzanne Widup, a researcher for the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report.
Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of your files, or at least delete daily. Print services should also communicate clearly upfront what information they're collecting and why.
Instagram Threads, the upcoming Twitter competitor from Meta, will not be launched in the European Union due to privacy concerns, according to Ireland's Data Protection Commission. Threads is Meta's answer to Twitter that's set for launch on July 6, 2023.
The Brave team has announced that the privacy-centric browser will soon introduce new restriction controls allowing users to specify how long sites can access local network resources. "Surprising though it may be, most browsers allow websites to access these local resources just as easily as they can access other resources on the web," explains Brave.
At one time, executive protection meant providing bodyguards and secure transit and fortifying executive offices against external threats. Executives are particularly at risk for "Whaling" attacks, where a criminal impersonates an executive via email or another means of communication and asks the target for money and/or information.
Regulatory bodies are taking potential data privacy violations much more seriously this year after a relatively quiet period that followed the enactment of regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act. In this Help Net Security video, Kris Lahiri, CSO at Egnyte, believes data privacy violations cast a long shadow and takes a closer look at the lasting consequences.
Microsoft has agreed to pay a $20 million fine and change data privacy procedures for children to settle Federal Trade Commission charges over Children's Online Privacy Protection Act violations. COPPA is a U.S. federal law designed to protect the privacy of children under the age of 13 on the internet by requiring parental consent, the ability to review and ask for the deletion of the child's personal information, the ability to refuse data collection, implement security protections for the collected information, and more when registering online accounts.
Zoom has introduced a new range of privacy enhancements and tools to make sure users have control over their data and their privacy preferences. One of the notable general privacy enhancements is the implementation of a data subject access requests tool.
The intersection of LLMs with corporate security and privacy warrants a deeper dive. Techniques like differential privacy can ensure that LLMs learn from data without exposing individual information.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has fined Amazon a cumulative $30.8 million over a series of privacy lapses regarding its Alexa assistant and Ring security cameras. Amazon has also agreed to fork out an additional $5.8 million in consumer refunds for breaching users' privacy by permitting any employee or contractor to gain broad and unfettered access to private videos recorded using Ring cameras.