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Security News Update for the Week Ending April 26, 2024

HHS Beefs up Privacy Protection for Reproductive Healthcare Info In a final rule released this week, doctors, clinics and other providers are prohibited from disclosing protected health information related to lawful reproductive healthcare. The rule is designed to protect women who cross state lines seeking an abortion and their providers. The 291 page regulation will […]

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Security News for the Week Ending March 22, 2024

Like Everyone Else, Reddit Plans to Sell User Content to AI Model Devs Seeing dollar signs in their future, Reddit decided to “license” their user created content to AI developers to train their models. The FTC is investigating in light of Reddit’s planned IPO. Reddit says it isn’t breaking the law to sell their user’s […]

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Your Carmaker May Be Selling Your Driving Data to Your Insurance Company

One thing about a country that has no federal privacy law – There are very few limits on what someone can do with data that they have legally collected. The legal part is that you agreed to allowi your “smart car” to collect your driving data. That data may include things like your speed and […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 1, 2023

Montana and Indiana TikTok Ban Stunts Unsurprisingly Fail in Court Both Indiana and Montana passed laws completely banning TikTok – both at the app store and private citizen level. Given that these laws were political stunts designed to try and impress voters, it is not surprising that they failed in court. The courts struck down […]

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UK’s Online Safety Regulator Puts Out First Guidance

King Charles approved the Online Safety Act last month and its regulator, known as Ofcom, has already issued its first regulation in draft form. Among other “features” of this law is a requirement to scan end to end encrypted messages for CSAM, even though that is impossible. The act also requires platforms to execute a […]

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Meta Fighting GDPR but Losing

Norway fined Meta for its targeted advertising practices and issued a temporary ban several months ago. Now Norway has gone to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and asked for the ban to be made permanent and EU/EEA wide. Since Facebook makes most of its money from targeted ads and untargeted ads fetch a dramatically […]

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