The U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is working with Congress and the White House on app privacy for patients, Modern Healthcare reports. Health care groups have raised concerns about patients using third-party apps not protected by the Health Insurance Porta...

After the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office launched an investigation into the use of facial-recognition technology at King’s Cross and the exposure of 1 million U.K. citizens’ biometric information, professionals have raised concerns over the potential misuse of the data, Bloomberg reports. AB...

The Wall Street Journal reports telecommunication industry officials have discovered that small carriers are largely behind the mass amount of robocalls circulating around the U.S. Large telecoms have traced the robocalls back to their source, revealing the role of small carriers. Regulators are hav...

Gizmodo reports that while people are becoming more vigilant about sharing personal information about themselves, particularly on social media, they routinely forget to block their contact information when sharing pet photos. Sharing a pet photo is innocuous unless the pet owner’s phone number and a...

The New York Times reports the Trump administration has asked Congress to reauthorize the U.S. National Security Agency’s deactivated calls program. The administration acknowledged the program has been “indefinitely shut down” but seeks to make its reauthorization permanent. Although the call progra...