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Privacy concerns how laws and norms govern personal data, shaping cybersecurity duties for collection, storage, access, and disclosure.

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Privacy is the ability of people to control how information about them is collected, used, retained, and disclosed. In technical and legal contexts, it covers identifiable data and data that can support inferences about a person, not only information made public. Privacy rules and organizational policies commonly address purpose, transparency, access, correction, retention, and sharing.

For security practitioners, privacy depends on reducing unnecessary data and restricting legitimate access: data minimization, encryption, least-privilege controls, segregation of identifiers, retention limits, and audit logs all reduce exposure. Compromised credentials, misconfigured storage, excessive telemetry, or third-party access can reveal sensitive information; pseudonymized datasets may also be re-identified when combined with other data. During an incident, teams must establish what personal data was accessed or disclosed, contain further exposure, preserve evidence, and meet applicable notification and handling requirements.

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Bank Info Security 1 year, 8 months ago

AI Recruitment Tools Prone to Bias, Privacy Issues

ML, NLP Tools Collect More Personal Information Than Required, UK Regulator SaysArtificial intelligence tools currently used by organizations in the United Kingdom to screen job applicants pose privacy risks and are susceptible to biasness and accuracy issues, the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office found. The ICO focused on machine learning and natural language processing.

More from Bank Info Security 9 Nov 2024, 1:00 p.m. Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning PII Privacy United Kingdom
Bank Info Security 1 year, 8 months ago

ISMG Editors: US Election Impact on Cybersecurity, HIPAA

Also: Potential Government Policy Changes; AI-Driven Zero-Day DiscoveriesIn the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed how the recent election results may reshape U.S. cybersecurity policy and healthcare privacy under HIPAA and the groundbreaking role of artificial intelligence in Google’s recent discovery of a critical zero-day vulnerability.

More from Bank Info Security 9 Nov 2024, 1:00 p.m. 0-Day America Artificial Intelligence Critical Infrastructure Election Google Government Healthcare Privacy Vulnerability
Bank Info Security 1 year, 8 months ago

Trump's Return: Impact on Health Sector Cyber, HIPAA Regs

Experts on Potential Data Security and HIPAA Privacy Changes in Trump's Second TermWith Donald Trump set to return to the White House to serve another four-year term as U.S. president, what might the healthcare sector expect to see when it comes to his next administration's cybersecurity priorities and HIPAA regulations and enforcement? Experts weigh in.

More from Bank Info Security 7 Nov 2024, 12:00 p.m. America Critical Infrastructure Healthcare President Privacy

Meta has been fined 21.62 billion won ($15.67 million) by South Korea's data privacy watchdog for illegally collecting sensitive personal information from Facebook users, including data about their political views and sexual orientation, and sharing it with advertisers without their consent

More from The Hacker News 6 Nov 2024, 7:58 p.m. Facebook Fine PII Politics Privacy South Korea