Notifications of Enforcement Discretion expire at 11:59 pm on May 11, 2023 Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announces that the Notifications of Enforcement Discretion issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health…
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ICE Is Grabbing Data From Schools and Abortion Clinics
Dhruv Mehrotra reports: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are using an obscure legal tool to demand data from elementary schools, news organizations, and abortion clinics in ways that, some experts say, may be illegal. While these administrative subpoenas, known as 1509 custom summonses, are meant to be used only in criminal investigations about illegal…
UK: ICO fines TikTok £12.7 million for misusing children’s data
From the Information Commissioner’s Office, April 4: More than one million UK children under 13 estimated by the ICO to be on TikTok in 2020, contrary to its terms of service. Personal data belonging to children under 13 was used without parental consent. TikTok “did not do enough” to check who was using their platform…
‘Vulkan files’ leak reveals Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics
Luke Harding, Stiliyana Simeonova, Manisha Ganguly, and Dan Sabbagh at The Guardian provide some background on the Vulkan Files: ….. The Vulkan files, which date from 2016 to 2021, were leaked by an anonymous whistleblower angered by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Such leaks from Moscow are extremely rare. Days after the invasion in February last…