The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel By: Colin Lecher and Jon Keegan This article was copublished with STAT, a national publication that delivers trusted and authoritative journalism about health, medicine, and the life sciences. Sign up for its health tech…
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How can you safely respond to a negative online review by a patient?
This post originally appeared on DataBreaches.net on June 5, but is being republished here to add a commentary under the press release from HHS. New Jersey psychiatry practice pays $30,000 to settle complaint about impermissible disclosure of protected health information by disclosing this information in online review Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human…
Microsoft Will Pay $20M to Settle U.S. Charges of Illegally Collecting Children’s Data
AP reports: Microsoft will pay a fine of $20 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally collected and retained the data of children who signed up to use its Xbox video game console. The agency charged that Microsoft gathered the data without notifying parents or obtaining their consent, and that it also illegally…
Canada to launch probe into OpenAI over privacy concerns; this site submits request for investigation into Canadian universities’ research
On May 25, Reuters reported that Canadian privacy regulators are launching a joint investigation into whether OpenAI has obtained consent for the collection, use and disclosure of personal information of residents via ChatGPT. While that is certainly a question worth investigating, there are other questions concerning AI that also warrant investigation in terms of research…