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.
Vaccine Skeptic's Views on Health Privacy Not Well-KnownPresident elect Donald Trump said Thursday he will nominate prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary to head up the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. His stances on health information privacy, security and healthcare sector cyber matters are not well known.
Given increased tensions with China over tariffs, companies could see a shift in attacks, but also fewer regulations and a run at a business-friendly federal privacy law.
Vaccine Skeptic's Views on Health Privacy Not Well KnownPresident elect Donald Trump said Thursday he will nominate prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary to head up the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. His stances on health information privacy, security and healthcare sector cyber matters are not well known.
Advertising on TikTok is the obvious choice for any company trying to reach a young market, and especially so if it happens to be a travel company, with 44% of American Gen Zs saying they use the platform to plan their vacations. But one online travel marketplace targeting young holidaymakers with ads on the popular video-sharing platform broke GDPR rules when a third-party partner misconfigured
Attorney Lisa Sotto on Anticipated Changes in Regulatory Focus at FTC and CISADonald Trump's return to the White House with a renewed focus on deregulation may shift the priorities of federal agencies in enforcing data privacy and cybersecurity policy, said Lisa Sotto, partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth and chairperson of the DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee.
Anastasia Georgievskaya, CEO of Haut.AI, on How AI Is Transforming SkincareAnastasia Georgievskaya, CEO and co-founder of Estonia-based Haut.AI, discusses the challenges of blending artificial intelligence with traditional skincare expertise and how Haut.AI is shaping a privacy-conscious future in beauty. Georgievskaya is also a research scientist at Beauty.AI.