Privacy Concerns

Nathalie Moreno, partner at Lewis Silkin, discusses the disruption and monetisation of healthcare data by big tech Big tech's disruption of healthcare hasn't been without its controversy. Healthcare data has become big tech’s last frontier for innovation, competition and disruption. However, such recent strategic moves into the healthcare industry have…

Google included a feature in its recent release of Google Chrome that allows users to create a link directly to a word or phrase on a page. Many experts think this could be a potential privacy risk, as Google may have added the feature too quickly and without proper cybersecurity…

The self-described "Intergalactic Headquarters" of Epic, located in the middle of the farm fields of Verona, Wisconsin, doesn't look typical for a medical software company. It's as much theme park as anything – "Alice in Wonderland" kind of stuff. The workspaces there can be in railway cars or subway cars,…

Understanding when smart speakers mistakenly record conversations Daniel J. Dubois (Northeastern University), Roman Kolcun (Imperial College London), Anna Maria Mandalari (Imperial College London), Muhammad Talha Paracha (Northeastern University), David Choffnes (Northeastern University), Hamed Haddadi (Imperial College London) Last updated: 02/14/2020 Summary Voice assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa, OK Google, Apple’s…

FILE PHOTO:People walk past a poster simulating facial recognition software at the Security China 2018 exhibition on public safety and security in Beijing, China October 24, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS Canada’s privacy watchdog on Friday announced an investigation into a US software startup reportedly capable of matching images of unknown faces…

For companies that build their analytics on Google products, purchasing Google Analytics 360 is a symbol of maturity.As a business grows, it inevitably runs up against limitations of analytics tools. For example, while the data aggregation process in Google Analytics seems like a “normal” feature, it might be a hurdle…

Weathering storms over privacy concerns, hate speech and and racial inequities in AI, the tech industry is facing a reckoning. At the same time, there exist so many reasons to believe there is hope. Here are 17 of them. They recognize that moving forward with the status quo is no…

Google has implemented a browser capability in Chrome called ScrollToTextFragment that enables deep links to web documents, but it has done so despite unresolved privacy concerns and lack of support from other browser makers. Via Twitter on Tuesday, Peter Snyder, privacy researcher at privacy-focused browser maker Brave Software, observed that…

February 18, 2020 - Nearly all patients are unwilling to share their health data with large technology companies for free, with most saying they’d demand upwards of $100,000 for their coveted health records, according to data from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of…

Clearview AI can create an in-depth profile on any person based on a single photo. Everything from that person’s activities and interests to their network of friends is easily accessible via the Clearview database. The police say the tech is “the biggest breakthrough in the last decade,” and the privacy…