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The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is calling attention to the privacy and security challenges that arise as a result of increased deployment of artificial intelligence...
Rapid GenAI adoption is the top-ranked issue for the next two years for legal, compliance and privacy leaders, according to Gartner. "Legal leaders should adapt preexisting, well-established and widely distributed risk monitoring and management practices until new processes can be implemented. For example, they might modify data inventories and records of processing activities of privacy impact assessments to track GenAI usage."
Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed in June 2020 that alleged that the company misled users by tracking their surfing activity who thought that their internet use remained private when...
As concerns for data privacy with AI grow, companies will form their own policies while waiting for government entities to enact regulatory legislation. 88% of data leaders believe that data security will become an even higher priority in the next 12 months, ahead of AI. AI is transforming financial crime compliance.
At its core, encryption involves the use of algorithms, mathematical functions that manipulate data into a seemingly random and indecipherable form. This encoded information, referred to as ciphertext, can only be converted back into its original, meaningful state by those possessing the appropriate cryptographic key.
It may be tempting for organizations to wait and see how regulations develop or hold on for federal-level legislation; the American Data Privacy Protection Act has been introduced to Congress, although it will take a while to see if it has a chance of coming through the legislative process and being passed into law. For organizations with customers in both the US and Europe, there's recently been some good news: the EU has decided that "The United States ensures an adequate level of protection - comparable to that of the European Union - for personal data transferred from the EU to US companies." In principle, this means user data from Europe can flow freely to the US without additional data protection safeguards.
A Plex "Feature" is raising privacy hackles of some users after sharing with others what they are watching on the streaming service - seemingly without their consent. At the start of this month Plex rolled out "Discover Together," with an "Activity" feature that shows "What you and your friends are watching, rating, and saving to your Watchlists," according to the streaming service.
Companies need help to get visibility into the operations of their AI programs, potentially reducing productivity while creating significant risks around governance, data security, and more. In this Help Net Security video, Neil Cohen, Head of Go-To-Market at Portal26, discusses why security leaders are concerned about GenAI privacy and security risks.
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About Bruce Schneier I am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. I've been writing about security issues on my blog since 2004, and in my monthly newsletter since 1998.