Gareth Corfield reports: A Google-owned artificial intelligence company may have gained access to NHS blood test results without patients’ knowledge, according to a High Court lawsuit over 1.6m people’s health records. DeepMind, which was bought by Google in 2014, may have been handed the results of blood tests that were “processed by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation…
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DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused email service now open to all
Michael Crider reports: Web users are becoming more and more aware of their privacy—or their lack thereof—on the modern internet. Search engine DuckDuckGo has always catered to those concerns, and doubled down on them with a dedicated Webkit-based browser for the Mac earlier this year. Now the company is completing its hat trick with a…
India’s Parliament Committee To Hear Twitter, IRCTC On Data Privacy
IANS reports: Parliamentary panel on Communications and Information Technology headed by Shashi Tharoor has summoned Twitter and IRCTC over data privacy. As per the Lok Sabha the step was ‘to hear the views of the representatives of Twitter India on the subject of Citizens Data Security and Privacy’. The committee will hear the views of…
Attorney General Bonta Announces Settlement with Sephora as Part of Ongoing Enforcement of California Consumer Privacy Act
OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced a settlement with Sephora, Inc. (Sephora), resolving allegations that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California’s first-in-the-nation landmark privacy law. After conducting an enforcement sweep of online retailers, the Attorney General alleged that Sephora failed to disclose to consumers that it was selling their personal information, that…