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Yoav Regev Says Small LMs Deliver High Accuracy Without Large InfrastructureSentra co-founder and CEO Yoav Regev says advances in small language models enable organizations to classify unstructured data with high accuracy inside customer environments, improving privacy, reducing infrastructure costs and strengthening AI-driven data governance.

Investigators Found Months of Unchecked Database Scraping ActivitySouth Korea's privacy regulator fined Coupang a record 624.7 billion won after concluding that weak authentication controls, insider access abuse, evidence destruction and unauthorized data collection contributed to the exposure of personal information belonging to 33.7 million people.

Program Focuses on AI Governance, Safety, Privacy, Bias and TransparencyAccreditation organization Joint Commission is rolling out a voluntary program for certifying the "responsible" deployment and use of artificial intelligence technologies by U.S. healthcare provider organizations, including governance, safeguards, monitoring processes and education.

Laure Lydon of Flo Health on Securing AI Without Compromising TrustTrust in femtech isn't a feature. It's the foundation. Laure Lydon, vice president of security at Flo Health, makes the case for embedding privacy and security into AI development from day one, not as an afterthought. Firms must evaluate potential risks before systems are built, she said.

On Device Controls Spark Privacy, Security ConcernsThe British government is demanding that smartphone giants Apple and Google ensure underage users of iOS and Android devices can no longer take, send or view nude photographs.

Healthcare Sector AI Expansion Raises Questions on Governance, Privacy and SafetyMayo Clinic and Microsoft are planning a new healthcare-specific frontier artificial intelligence model that aims to help clinicians make earlier diagnoses and deliver more personalized treatments to their patients. The clinic plans to make the new model available to patients and doctors.

Healthcare Coordinating Council Highlights AI Risks, Potential Medical MishapsHealthcare organizations face an array of difficult cybersecurity, privacy, patient safety, supply chain and operational resiliency issues as they roll out artificial intelligence tools. A new Health Sector Coordinating Council playbook aims to help by providing a voluntary governance framework.

Artificial intelligence that is embedded in newer editions of software and other technology tools but is not explicitly revealed by vendors is a substantial risk on par with shadow AI, said regulatory attorney Elizabeth Hodge with the law firm Akerman LLP.

AMA Wants Privacy, Security AI Tool Protections, Especially in Mental HealthThe American Medical Association says using artificial intelligence chatbots carries risks - including data privacy and security breaches - and the largest U.S. professional association for physicians and medical students is urging Congress to take action to protect patients from potential harm.

Berlin Proposes 3 Month Requirement to Store IP AddressesThe German government says it's unlocked the secret to passing a law that would require internet service providers to keep customer data without running afoul of privacy and security concerns that sunk earlier attempts. Critics say that's impossible

House Democrats Are the Latest to Raise Data Collection Privacy, Security AlarmsA plan by the U.S. federal agency that oversees federal benefits that would require insurers to hand over the identifiable health data of civil servants received pushback from House of Representatives Democrats who said it throws up privacy and security risks.

Patients Allege Health Entities Did Not Get Consent to Record ConversationsProposed federal class action litigation alleges that two California healthcare organizations violated patient privacy in their use of an AI-enabled ambient tool that records, transcribes, and processes sensitive conversations between clinicians and patients without individuals' consent.

Google's Kristie Chon Flynn on Building Privacy Into the AI Development Life CycleThree years into the modern artificial intelligence revolution, data protection can no longer be an afterthought - it must be engineered in from the start, said Kristie Chon Flynn, data protection officer of privacy, safety, security engineering at Google.

Contec and Epsimed Monitors Containing 'Backdoors' Are at the Center of OrderTexas Gov. Abbott has ordered agencies to review foreign-made connected medical devices - especially those from Chinese manufacturers - used in state-owned facilities for cybersecurity issues that could pose security and privacy risks to patients and healthcare infrastructure.

New CEO John Heyman Says Enterprises Need Tools to Manage Thousands of AI AgentsNew OneTrust CEO John Heyman said enterprises rapidly deploying generative AI will soon manage hundreds or thousands of AI agents across their organizations. They must monitor AI agents' data flows and third-party technologies as privacy risk and security oversight increasingly converge.

CHIME, AHA, Others Contend Privacy, Security Burden Would Shift to ProvidersProposals to eliminate certain longstanding health IT certification criteria - including privacy and security related controls - will shift regulatory burden from health IT developers to healthcare providers, some industry groups contend in their public response to proposed federal rulemaking.

GrokAI Non-Consensual Sexual Imagery Raises Official HacklesEuropean regulatory pressure on Elon Musk's X social media network intensified this week with new probes into potential breaches of privacy roles by Grok AI chatbot. X claims to have stopped Grok from outputting the offending images, but apparently the chatbot still generates them.

New HHS Enforcement Program Focuses on Patient Confidentiality, Aligning With HIPAAThe 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 privacy rule.

Review Finds Access Control, Incident Response Gaps for 2 DHHS Data RepositoriesA 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.

Critics Say Regulation Amendments Would Chip Away at Fundamental RightsA 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.