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2 years, 7 months ago
Kenyan Digital Identity System Shelved Over Data Protection Concerns
Privacy concerns see the proposed digital identity system paused until February.
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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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Info Security Magazine
2 years, 7 months ago
ICO Warns of Fines for “Nefarious” AI Use
UK privacy regulator, the information commissioner, says illegal use of AI will be punished with fines
Bank Info Security
2 years, 7 months ago
The Joint Commission Unveils New Data Privacy Certification
Program Addresses Secondary Use of Patient Data by Third Parties for AI InitiativesThe Joint Commission is kicking off a new voluntary certification program for hospitals' "responsible use" of health data. The effort aims to help address growing privacy concerns over the secondary use of patient data by third parties for artificial intelligence initiatives and other activities.
The Hacker News
2 years, 7 months ago
Meta Launches Default End-to-End Encryption for Chats and Calls on Messenger
Meta has officially begun to roll out support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Messenger for personal calls and one-to-one personal messages by default in what it called the "most significant milestone yet." "This isn't a routine security update: we rebuilt the app from the ground up, in close consultation with privacy and safety experts," Loredana Crisan, vice president of
Info Security Magazine
2 years, 7 months ago
Porn Age Checks Threaten Security and Privacy, Report Warns
Online Safety Act’s mandate for age verification to access pornography could be a security and privacy disaster, think tanks warn