Privacy professionals

Privacy professionals

It's an unfortunate use of advanced technologies, the same ones that are being used to detect and counter misinformation online. It's bad enough that we're having a hard time discerning true from false content, but what if the fake news is tailored specifically for you so that you're the most likely to believe it and consequently share it? Personalised disinformation is the next wave in darkly creative misapplication of technology, and here's how it can work.

Earlier this month, when U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta issued penalties against Google for monopolizing the search engine market, he stopped short of the harshest ones like forcing the breakup of the company. Instead, Mehta ordered Google to share portions of its incredibly valuable search index and user click-and-query data with some of its competitors. This move, which will make it easier for rivals to build their own search engines, is meant to even the playing field in the search space

Last week, Google said its new Pixel 10 phones will ship with a feature aimed at one of the biggest questions of the AI era: Can you trust what you see? The devices now support the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity ( C2PA), a standard backed by Google and other heavyweights like Adobe, Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI and Meta. At its core is something called Content Credentials-essentially a digital nutrition label for photos, videos, or audio. The metadata tag, which can't easily be tampered with, shows who created a piece of media, how it was made, and whether AI played a role.

The laws create a new interconnected intelligence system dubbed the Central Intelligence Platform, under which intelligence and security agencies at all levels of government -federal, state and municipal-have the power to access, from any entity public or private, personal information for "intelligence purposes," including license plate numbers, biometric information, telephone details that allow the identification of individuals, financial, banking, and health records, public and private property records, tax data, and more.

Basically, all Facebook users who had an account on the social media platform between May 7th, 2007 and December 22nd, 2022 are entitled to the payout, as they're most likely affected by the data scandal. However, in order to receive payment, you must also assert your claim-which means you needed to join the class action and submit a claim before the August 25th, 2023 deadline.

Walk down the street and you're likelyto be recorded by one of thousandsof security cameras, some belongingto the New York Police Department,others just connected or available to the department's databases. Drive into the city and traffic cameraswill automatically photograph your car, capturing your vehicle's license plate, make, model, color, distinctive markings and even passengers. Post on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or TikTok and the N.Y.P.D. can scrape and store your messages, capturing your thoughts, plans, political statements and friend groups.

Alphabet's health tech subsidiary, Verily, used the health data of more than 25,000 patients without authorization and actively covered up those violations, a former company executive alleges. The executive, Ryan Sloan, claims Verily fired him after he discovered breaches of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, and reported his concerns to the company's senior management. Patient data in the U.S. is protected under HIPAA, which ensures the sensitive information cannot be disclosed without a patient's consent.

What does the volatile global political environment have to do with the menstruation of millions of people? With whom do menstrual cycle apps share our medical data? And how can this information be used to criminalize women who choose to have an abortion? More and more people are downloading menstrual tracking apps on their phones. Hence, these questions are becoming a major concern for researchers and academics.

One night, a friend of mine went out for dinner with her husband and toddler. The toddler, who sometimes had trouble swallowing, choked on his food - and threw up, repeatedly, in the restaurant. People around them were laughing while my friend and her family were in distress, adding to their embarrassment. But that wasn't the worst part, she told me.

Payments are finally set to begin going out this month from a 2023 settlement in which Bay Area tech giant Meta agreed to pay $725 million to settle allegations that Facebook had broken the law with its data sharing practices. The company's Cambridge Analytica scandal sparked the lawsuit, but it denied wrongdoing throughout years of litigation. The eventual settlement was vast in scope: Anyone in the United States who used Facebook from May 2007 to December 2022 was able to file a claim.

"This decision misunderstands how our products work, and we will appeal it," Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said Thursday. "Our privacy tools give people control over their data, and when they turn off personalization, we honor that choice."

The remedies ruling in the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Google finally landed on Tuesday. Last year, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google was a monopolist in the search and advertising markets, but while today's ruling says that Google will have to share some search data with competitors, Google doesn't have to spin off Chrome and it can keep paying for deals like the one that lets it be the default search in Safari.

The expert wonders what would happen if a customer suffers the death of a relative and receives an email with available funeral services. The airline might know that customer wants to go to a funeral and decide to charge them more. This is one of the new frontiers of potential abuse that we have to be on guard against, she warned.

As businesses in Melbourne grow, so does their paperwork. Invoices, contracts, employee files, tax documents, and compliance records start to pile up. Whether you're in legal, healthcare, finance or construction, having a secure system for managing your business records is not just smart, it's essential. That's where reliable records storage services come in. This guide breaks down why offsite records storage Melbourne solutions are crucial, what to look for in a provider, and how to make the switch from clutter to control.

The Walt Disney Co. has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission inquiry into alleged violations of child privacy laws. The settlement, disclosed Tuesday, covers videos that Disney uploaded to YouTube that were not properly marked as children's content. That lapse allowed the videos to become targets for online advertising, drawing the attention of federal regulators.

On 1 August 2025, Thailand's Personal Data Protection Committee ("PDPC") announced the issuance of 8 fines totaling THB 14.5 million (approximately USD 448,000), which were levied against one government agency and other private entities for non-compliance with the Personal Data Protection Act of 2019 ("PDPA") in 5 cases. Since the official enforcement of the PDPA, this marks the second significant instance in which the PDPC has imposed fines on non-compliant data controllers and data processors.