privacy

Application Security

Issued by: DataBreach Today

The British data regulator is set to analyze the privacy implications of processing scrapped data used for training generative artificial intelligence algorithms. The Information Commissioners’ Office on Monday announced that it’s soliciting comments from AI developers, legal experts, and other industry stakeholders on how privacy rights might be affected by developments in generative AI. Since…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

DNA testing company 23andMe has released further details surrounding an October data breach, where user profile information had been accessed and downloaded at the hands of a threat actor. On Oct. 1, a threat actor made a post on the Dark Web claiming to possess profile information of 23andMe users; later, the perpetrators released 4…

Application Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Apple has joined more than 80 technology experts and organizations in an appeal to UK lawmakers to consider the broader privacy ramifications of pending legislation called the Online Safety Bill. The legislation, moving its way through Parliament, is intended to force accountability for technology platforms used to distribute child abuse materials. Platforms like iMessage and…

News

Issued by: DataBreach Today

European Union lawmakers have criticized the British government’s updated privacy bill over concerns that it fails to adequately protect European citizens’ fundamental rights. Lawmakers also heard from the Irish data authority on the status of its pending TikTok inquiry. At a European Parliament hearing on Tuesday, members of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs…

News

Issued by: CSO Online

Meta has been fined $1.3 billion (€1.2 billion) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for violating the terms of the EU’s GDPR by continuing to transfer EU users’ data to the US without adequate safeguards. Meta has failed to “address the risks to the fundamental rights and freedoms” of Facebook’s European users, the DPC…

Network Security

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Proposed changes unveiled this week by the Federal Trade Commission to its health breach rule have many advocates agreeing that personal health data needs stronger protections even as some question whether the agency has the legal authority to enact its proposal. Commissioners voted unanimously Thursday for a rule-making codifying an earlier policy change made in…

News

Issued by: SecurityWeek

Italy is temporarily blocking the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT in the wake of a data breach as it investigates a possible violation of stringent European Union data protection rules, the government’s privacy watchdog said Friday. The Italian Data Protection Authority said it was taking provisional action “until ChatGPT respects privacy,” including temporarily limiting the company…

Software Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Employees are submitting sensitive business data and privacy-protected information to large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, raising concerns that artificial intelligence (AI) services could be incorporating the data into their models, and that information could be retrieved at a later date if proper data security isn’t in place for the service. In a recent…

Network Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

In 2022, we saw broad support behind federal privacy legislation in the US Congress. While the American Data Privacy Protection Act (ADPPA) did not see the president’s pen prior to the midterms, the fact that such a bill saw a committee vote in the House — approved 53–2, with bipartisan support — and both industry…