[Joint Press Release, January 12, 2025] The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC – the Republic of Korea) and the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA – California, the United States of America) signed a declaration of cooperation on January 10th 2025, emphasizing their shared commitment to safeguarding the privacy and personal information of their citizens and…
In first of its kind litigation, Texas sues Allstate under the state’s comprehensive data privacy law
Suzanne Smalley reports: Texas’ attorney general is suing the insurance giant Allstate and its subsidiary Arity for allegedly illegally collecting, using and selling cell phone location and movement data belonging to more than 45 million Americans without their knowledge. Allstate harvested trillions of miles of that data from Americans’ cellphones through “secretly embedded” software Arity…
Health Care AI, Intended To Save Money, Turns Out To Require a Lot of Expensive Humans
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…