Privacy concerns involving the tracking, collection and disclosure of sensitive health data of consumers - without their knowledge or consent - remain top enforcement priorities for federal regulators, as well as top legislative fodder for some members of Congress.
Here's further proof many cybercriminals are rampant self-promoters: Credit card market BidenCash, which sells compromised payment card data, dumped 2 million payment cards for free. This shows that competition between carder markets - and increasingly, Telegram-based vendors - is fierce.
Online counseling provider BetterHelp is set to come under two decades of privacy monitoring by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission after settling allegations that it violated users' privacy by sharing identifying information with social media platforms including Facebook.
The European agency responsible for overseeing consistent application of privacy law on the continent says it has reservations about the legal framework underpinning commercial trans-Atlantic data flows as the framework moves toward formal acceptance by the European Commission.
The Federal Trade Commission is warning Amazon and One Medical to abide by their promises to protect consumers' data privacy. The statement comes in the wake of Amazon's $3.9 billion purchase of the primary healthcare on-site and virtual services provider.
With the U.S. COVID-19 public health emergency expected to end in May, the government is set to scrutinize telehealth providers for HIPAA violations. That’s why healthcare firms should review their telehealth platforms and vendors, says privacy attorney Adam Greene of Davis Wright Tremaine.
The European Commission has directed employees to remove the ByteDance-owned, short-form video app TikTok from their phones and corporate devices, citing security concerns. The decision follows similar bans in the U.S. and other countries, driven by fears of Chinese hacking and influence.
Automaker Tesla revised settings for its in-built cameras after a probe by the Dutch data privacy agency found its default settings enabled illegal recording and retention of data. "Teslas parked on the street were often filming everyone who came near the vehicle," DPA board member Katja Mur said.
The Los Angeles Unified School District confirmed that records containing mental health data and other sensitive information of about 2,000 students, including 60 current pupils, were among data leaked in a ransomware attack last fall by Russian hacking group Vice Society.
The European Commission is preparing a proposal mandating more cooperation among national government agencies charged with enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation. Nationally driven enforcement of the regulation has emerged as a sore point for some during the GDPR's first half decade.
Federal regulators are working on proposed rule to modify HIPAA to better safeguard the privacy of reproductive health data. The Biden administration last year already issued guidance about the application of the HIPAA Privacy Rule to information about reproductive health.
The attorneys general of Pennsylvania and Ohio have slapped a DNA testing lab with HIPAA settlements totaling $400,000 in the wake of a 2021 hack of a legacy database that affected 2.1 million individuals nationwide, including nearly 46,000 consumers in the two states.
Attackers have been actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in widely used managed file transfer software GoAnywhere MFT to take full control of systems, and in some cases to deploy ransomware. Vendor Fortra has released a patch and urged users to review systems for unusual behavior.
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A group of bipartisan U.S. senators is seeking answers from three telehealth companies about their data tracking and sharing practices. The move comes as privacy and security concerns about broader data sharing by technology firms also are growing.
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