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Court: FTC Privacy Suit Against Data Broker Can Move Ahead

Data Breach Today

Judge Denies Kochava's Motion to Dismiss Agency's Claim of Privacy Violations A federal judge has denied Kochava's latest attempt to ditch a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit alleging the firm is invading consumers' privacy and exposing them to risk by collecting and selling their location data to third parties.

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The Joint Commission Unveils New Data Privacy Certification

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Program Addresses Secondary Use of Patient Data by Third Parties for AI Initiatives The Joint Commission is kicking off a new voluntary certification program for hospitals' "responsible use" of health data.

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CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

Krebs on Security

The data privacy company Onerep.com bills itself as a Virginia-based service for helping people remove their personal information from almost 200 people-search websites. However, an investigation into the history of onerep.com finds this company is operating out of Belarus and…

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NIST Report Spotlights Cyber, Privacy Risks in Genomic Data

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A Multitude of Considerations for Entities As Use of Genomic Data Advances The explosion in applications using genomic data - from drug and vaccine development and consumer ancestry testing to law enforcement work - is heightening the need to carefully address critical privacy and security concerns around this sensitive data, government authorities (..)

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs.

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UK Privacy Watchdog Probes GenAI Privacy Concerns

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ICO Call for Evidence to Focus on Legal Basis for Scrapped Training Data The British data regulator is set to analyze the privacy implications of processing scrapped data used for training generative artificial intelligence algorithms.

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Addressing Privacy and Data-Sharing Hurdles in Healthcare AI

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One of the major hurdles is tied to patient privacy and the sharing of vast amounts of data needed to effectively tune AI models. Workarounds for Advancing AI in Administrative and Clinical Uses AI holds tremendous promise for both the administrative and clinical sides of healthcare, but obstacles still remain.

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Privacy without borders: Reality or Fantasy?

Imagine a world in which every country shared a vision and a common set of principles to protect and regulate the use of personal data. It would make international business far simpler, provide citizens in every country with the same privacy rights.

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How to Effectively Equip Your IG Program for the Perilous Journey Into the Future

Speaker: Andrew Ysasi, Vice President of Advocacy for Vital Records Control, President of IG GURU®, MS, FIP, FIIM, CIPM, CIGO, CISM, PMP, CRM, IGP, CIP, CSAP

An information governance framework shows how an organization manages specific data, like personal information, as well as how this information is stored. Information privacy is a critical part of an IG program. In this webinar, you will learn how to: Implement effective privacy program management strategies. Set up a program.

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Recovering from a Cyber Attack

Speaker: Mike Cramer, Director of HIPAA & Data Security at The Word & Brown Companies

If your organization stores data and is connected to the Internet, it is not a matter of “if” a cyber-security incident will happen, but “when.” IBM reported that the total damage from data breaches in 2021 was 4.24M USD (up from 3.86M USD in 2020), easily the highest aggregated amount on record.