Byron Kaye and Alasdair Pal of Reuters report: Software testers hired by Australia’s government to determine how to enforce the world’s first national teen social media ban have worked on defence and election contracts but will use another experience to guide their study: wrangling their own children online. “We’re all parents of kids of various…
Australian Parliament bans social media ban for under-16s with world-first law
Associated Press reports: A social media ban for children under 16 passed the Australian Parliament on Friday in a world-first law. The law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars ($33 million) for systemic failures to prevent children younger than 16 from holding…
HHS Office for Civil Rights Settles with Holy Redeemer Hospital Over Disclosure of Patient’s Protected Health Information, Including Reproductive Health Information
November 26 – Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with Holy Redeemer Family Medicine (Holy Redeemer), a Pennsylvania hospital, concerning an alleged violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule due to an impermissible disclosure of a…
Microsoft says it’s not using your Word, Excel data for AI training
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Microsoft has denied claims that it uses Microsoft 365 apps (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) to collect data to train the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) models. This comes after a Tumblr blog post claiming that Redmond used a “Connected Experiences” feature to scrape customers’ Word and Excel data for AI training spread on social media. “Microsoft does…