Health Care AI, Intended To Save Money, Turns Out To Require a Lot of Expensive Humans Darius Tahir January 10, 2025 Preparing cancer patients for difficult decisions is an oncologist’s job. They don’t always remember to do it, however. At the University of Pennsylvania Health System, doctors are nudged to talk about a patient’s…
Hackers Claim To Have Compromised Data Broker Used By U.S. Government To Dodge Warrants
Over on TechDirt, Karl Bode writes: Gravy Analytics, the parent company of Venntel, is like many dodgy data brokers. The company gleans vast troves of sensitive U.S. behavior and location cellphone data, then generally sells access to that data to a long line of folks. Including the U.S. government, which has increasingly turned to buying…
The EU Fined Itself for Breaking Its Own Data Privacy Law
AJ Dellinger reports: The European Union has investigated itself and found…actual wrongdoing! For the first time ever, the EU has been found to have violated its own privacy rules established by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and will have to pay a fine, per a ruling handed down by the EU General Court. The victim…
State Attorneys General Issue Guidance On Privacy & Artificial Intelligence
Libbie Canter and Jayne Ponder of Covington and Burling write: Attorneys General in Oregon and Connecticut issued guidance over the holiday interpreting their authority under their state comprehensive privacy statutes and related authorities. Specifically, the Oregon Attorney General’s guidance focuses on laws relevant for artificial intelligence (“AI”), and the Connecticut Attorney General’s guidance focuses on…