A massive data leak stemming from a cyber attack on a third-party subcontractor has affected Swiss banks UBS and Pictet, as well as over a dozen other multinational companies, potentially including auditing firm KPMG.
UnitedHealth Group has released further details about the devastating Change Healthcare attack that caused widespread damage throughout the US, taking large chunks of revenue from some care providers and in some cases keeping patients from needed medication. The group has confirmed that it made a ransom payment to restore service.
Companies must show that they are constantly innovating but they must also show that they are taking into account customer privacy and security to protect personal information. Those that can manage this delicate balancing act between customer privacy and digital trust will be the winners in the modern digital economy.
ChatGPT, is now allowing users to disable chat history. However, any prior conversations remain logged and available to the company's AI models, and chats will still be retained for 30 days before deletion in order to "fight abuse."
Germany is querying ChatGPT's GDPR compliance in terms of required access to stored personal information, its efforts to inform data subjects of their rights under the law, and how it is handling the data of minors.
CNIL said that it is following up on "several" privacy complaints, and Spain is looking to put the ChatGPT topic on the Plenary of the European Data Protection Committee's discussion schedule.
Chick-fil-A Hit With Privacy Lawsuit Over Data Collection Embedded in Viral Video Marketing Campaign
Privacy lawsuit alleges that by embedding the Meta pixel on pages hosting its videos, Chick-fil-A violated the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) which applies only to data collection of personally identifiable information when viewing videos.
An attacker could use a vulnerability to issue fake alerts via the Emergency Alert Systems. The vulnerable software is in the possession of television and radio stations throughout the country, who are being called upon to download a software update.
The Chinese government claims that the NSA is conducting cyber espionage with repeated attacks on an aerospace and space research university funded by Beijing.
China has added a "color code" in their national surveillance system to mark citizens according to their level of COVID-19 contagion risk and flag those with yellow and red codes for quarantine.
