SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- LinkedIn recently completed a project to deidentify advertising activity data to ensure user information is protected while still allowing data processing to generate valuable analytics for advertisers, engineers from the Microsoft-owned social network said Monday at the USENIX Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) conference.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Companies’ processes for responding to law enforcement requests could constitute a security vulnerability with privacy implications, Lukas Bundonis, a senior privacy engineer at Netflix, said at the USENIX Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) conference Monday.
A coalition of organizations and privacy experts raised concerns about a new feature of digital identity systems that allows the government to track individuals through documents such as driver’s licenses. The “phone home” functionality is built into identity systems and allows “authorities to track when or where identity is used” when the identity issuer or third party interacts with the user’s app, said a Monday statement by the coalition, which included the American Civil Liberties Union.
Data broker LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) recently notified impacted individuals about a data breach in a third-party platform the company used for software development. The breach exposed the personal information of more than 364,000 people, it said.
Biometric systems must be designed in a way that honors the ability to revoke and delete data, especially with the rise of biometric authentication in daily life, said privacy-focused system design software engineer Naveen Kumar Reddy Pajjuri in an IAPP piece Wednesday.
The City of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, notified impacted individuals on Friday about a data breach in its network that occurred in October 2024, potentially involving their personal information.
Retaining old data can greatly increase the cost and impact of a breach, two Baker Hostetler lawyers wrote in a blog post Friday. Accordingly, organizations should ensure their security programs address data retention practices, though the authors, attorneys Jon Knight and Eric Manski, acknowledge information governance is "challenging" for organizations of all ages and sizes.
While well-intentioned, privacy regulations in health care result in fragmented patient data across systems and institutions, which impedes optimal care and scientific advancements, said a Tuesday blog post from consultants at Access Partnership, a public policy firm.
Government access to individuals’ sensitive data and the potential to use it for the wrong purposes poses serious privacy risks, but it's also a unique opportunity for groups with varying political agendas to collaborate on stopping it, said investigative journalist Julia Angwin during a keynote speech Friday. Angwin, founder of technology publication The Markup, is a contributing opinion writer to The New York Times.
Health care system Ascension on Thursday notified more than 437,000 patients that their demographic information may have been exposed during a data breach that was discovered in December.