Tag: privacy
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US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China
Keep behavioral tracking American? PC giant says the claim is ‘false’ First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/lenovo_privacy_lawsuit/
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With CISOs stretched thin, re-envisioning enterprise risk may be the only fix
Tags: access, ai, application-security, business, cio, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, fraud, governance, grc, group, identity, infrastructure, jobs, monitoring, privacy, RedTeam, risk, soc, supply-chain, vulnerabilityStructural changes necessary: Flavio Villanustre, CISO for the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, says many organizations have already made the structural changes necessary to address the rising importance, and specialization, of cybersecurity and risk functions.”The breadth and depth of information security and cybersecurity have increased so significantly over the past two decades that it drove a…
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Feds Launch Portal to Report Substance Use Disorder Breaches
New HHS Enforcement Program Focuses on Patient Confidentiality, Aligning With HIPAA. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new breach reporting website and guidance materials to support its duties of enforcing compliance mandates that went into effect Monday to better align the confidentiality of substance use disorder records with the HIPAA…
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NDSS 2025 SiGuard: Guarding Secure Inference With Post Data Privacy
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: Xinqian Wang (RMIT University), Xiaoning Liu (RMIT University), Shangqi Lai (CSIRO Data61), Xun Yi (RMIT University), Xingliang Yuan (University of Melbourne) PAPER SIGuard: Guarding Secure Inference with Post Data Privacy Secure inference is designed to enable encrypted machine learning model prediction over encrypted data. It will ease…
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Leaky Chrome extensions with 37M installs caught divulging your browsing history
Encrypted exfiltration made detection difficult: The researcher said in a blog post that several of these extensions attempted to hide the nature of transmitted data. Outbound payloads were frequently encrypted or encoded before transmission, preventing automated inspection.”Manual inspection of the captured traffic revealed a variety of obfuscation schemes: base64, ROT47, LZ-String compression, and full AES-256…
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Leaky Chrome extensions with 37M installs caught shipping your browsing history
Encrypted exfiltration made detection difficult: The researcher said in a blog post that several of these extensions attempted to hide the nature of transmitted data. Outbound payloads were frequently encrypted or encoded before transmission, preventing automated inspection.”Manual inspection of the captured traffic revealed a variety of obfuscation schemes: base64, ROT47, LZ-String compression, and full AES-256…
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Android 17 beta brings privacy, security, and performance changes
Google has released the first beta of Android 17, giving developers an early view of changes to core app behavior, platform tooling, performance, media handling, and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/16/android-17-beta-changes-privacy-security/
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Your Smart Home Is Watching You: Privacy in the Age of AI Robots
From compromised TVs to AI-powered house chores, exploring the evolving global threats and why human-centric security matters more than ever. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/your-smart-home-is-watching-you-privacy-in-the-age-of-ai-robots/
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Apple privacy labels often don’t match what Chinese smart home apps do
Smart home devices in many homes collect audio, video, and location data. The apps that control those devices often focus on the account owner, even when the technology also … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/16/apple-ios-apps-china-smart-home-bystander-privacy/
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Ring’s Search Party ‘Dystopia’ Debate Claude Zero-Click RCE Vulnerability
In this episode, we discuss two major tech stories impacting privacy and security. First, we analyze Ring’s new AI-powered ‘Search Party’ feature and its controversial Super Bowl ad that sparked privacy concerns. We then transition to a breaking story about a zero-click remote code execution flaw in the Claude Desktop, highlighting the potential risks of……
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NDSS 2025 Diffence: Fencing Membership Privacy With Diffusion Models
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: PAPER Yuefeng Peng (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ali Naseh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Amir Houmansadr (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Deep learning models, while achieving remarkable performances across various tasks, are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs), wherein adversaries identify if a specific data point was part of…
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NDSS 2025 Diffence: Fencing Membership Privacy With Diffusion Models
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: PAPER Yuefeng Peng (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ali Naseh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Amir Houmansadr (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Deep learning models, while achieving remarkable performances across various tasks, are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs), wherein adversaries identify if a specific data point was part of…
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NDSS 2025 Black-Box Membership Inference Attacks Against Fine-Tuned Diffusion Models
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: Yan Pang (University of Virginia), Tianhao Wang (University of Virginia) PAPER Black-box Membership Inference Attacks against Fine-tuned Diffusion Models With the rapid advancement of diffusion-based image-generative models, the quality of generated images has become increasingly photorealistic. Moreover, with the release of high-quality pre-trained image-generative models, a growing…
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Ring ends partnership plans with Flock days after privacy blowback from Super Bowl ad
Ring and Flock had announced their partnership in October, saying that Ring customers would soon be empowered to share their doorbell camera videos with police through Ring’s Community Requests program. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/ring-ends-partnership-with-flock-superbowl-ad
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What Interoperability in Healthcare Really Means for Security and Privacy
Healthcare interoperability improves care but expands attack surfaces, increasing data exposure, compliance risk, and security challenges across connected systems. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/interoperability-in-healthcare-security-privacy/
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What Interoperability in Healthcare Really Means for Security and Privacy
Healthcare interoperability improves care but expands attack surfaces, increasing data exposure, compliance risk, and security challenges across connected systems. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/interoperability-in-healthcare-security-privacy/
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What Interoperability in Healthcare Really Means for Security and Privacy
Healthcare interoperability improves care but expands attack surfaces, increasing data exposure, compliance risk, and security challenges across connected systems. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/interoperability-in-healthcare-security-privacy/
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What Interoperability in Healthcare Really Means for Security and Privacy
Healthcare interoperability improves care but expands attack surfaces, increasing data exposure, compliance risk, and security challenges across connected systems. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/interoperability-in-healthcare-security-privacy/
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150+ Key Compliance Statistics: AI, Data Privacy, Cybersecurity Regulatory Trends to Know in 2026
In 2026, compliance sits at the intersection of AI adoption, expanding privacy regulations, and rising cybersecurity risk. As regulatory expectations tighten and digital systems grow more complex, organizations are under. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/150-key-compliance-statistics-ai-data-privacy-cybersecurity-regulatory-trends-to-know-in-2026/
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Privacy Audit Finds Utah Child Welfare, Health Data at Risk
Review Finds Access Control, Incident Response Gaps for 2 DHHS Data Repositories. A lack of access controls, poor record request handling, weak incident response plans and other security deficiencies related to two critical data repositories are potentially putting millions of Utahans sensitive personal and health information at risk, said a state audit report. First seen…
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EU Privacy Watchdogs Pan Digital Omnibus
Critics Say Regulation Amendments Would Chip Away at Fundamental Rights. A slew of amendments to European tech regulations touted by the European Commission as necessary for boosting continental competitiveness is receiving pushback from privacy watchdogs unhappy with changes that could water down EU privacy laws. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/eu-privacy-watchdogs-pan-digital-omnibus-a-30744
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California fines Disney $2.75 million for data privacy violations
Disney has agreed to pay a $2.75 million to the state of California over allegations that it broke the state’s landmark privacy law by making it exceedingly difficult for consumers to opt out of having their data shared and sold. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/california-fines-disney-data-privacy
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Adblock Filters Expose User Location Even With VPN Protection
A new fingerprinting technique called >>Adbleed<< reveals that VPN users aren't as anonymous as they think. While VPNs hide your IP address and encrypt traffic, they can't conceal which country-specific adblock filter lists are installed in your browser and that's enough to expose your location. How Adblockers Create a Privacy Leak Most adblockers like uBlock…
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Your AI doctor doesn’t have to follow the same privacy rules as your real one
AI apps are making their way into healthcare. It’s not clear that rigorous data security or privacy practices will be part of the package. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/ai-healthcare-apps-hipaa-privacy-risks-openai-anthropic/
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How the Supreme Court’s “Third Party” Subpoena Doctrine Empowers Governments to Seize Sensitive Information Without Your Knowledge
This article examines the widespread collection of personal data and the legal challenges individuals face from third-party subpoenas. It discusses key court rulings on government access to personal information and highlights the complexities of data privacy in the digital age. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/how-the-supreme-courts-third-party-subpoena-doctrine-empowers-governments-to-seize-sensitive-information-without-your-knowledge/
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How to govern agentic AI so as not to lose control
assisting and start acting. We will witness a qualitative leap towards agent-based or agentive AI, capable of making autonomous decisions, managing complex workflows, and executing end-to-end tasks without constant intervention. However, this autonomy carries with it a serious warning for businesses: the ability to operate alone exponentially multiplies the impact of any error or security…
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India makes Aadhaar more ubiquitous, but critics say security and privacy concerns remain
India’s Aadhaar is moving into wallets, hotels and policing through a new app. Critics say that amid the broader Aadhaar rollout, it’s unclear how data shared through the new app would prevent breaches or leaks. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/india-makes-aadhaar-more-ubiquitous-but-critics-say-privacy-concerns-remain/
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OpenAI updates Europe privacy policy, adding new data categories
OpenAI has updated its Europe-facing privacy policy following the November 2024 EU revision, clarifying scope, expanding coverage, and detailing user controls. The updated … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/09/openai-europe-privacy-policy-update/
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OpenAI updates Europe privacy policy, adding new data categories
OpenAI has updated its Europe-facing privacy policy following the November 2024 EU revision, clarifying scope, expanding coverage, and detailing user controls. The updated … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/09/openai-europe-privacy-policy-update/
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OpenAI updates Europe privacy policy, adding new data categories
OpenAI has updated its Europe-facing privacy policy following the November 2024 EU revision, clarifying scope, expanding coverage, and detailing user controls. The updated … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/09/openai-europe-privacy-policy-update/