The U.S. Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights reached a $1.25 million settlement with Arizona-based health care provider Banner Health Affiliated Covered Entities over alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Security Rule. The settlement resolves 20...

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia announced new requirements for privacy management programs and data breach reporting under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act that entered into force Feb. 1. Covered entities are required to designate "...

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., called on Apple and Google to “immediately” remove TikTok from their application stores in letters sent to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Reuters reports. In his letter, Bennet claimed TikTok poses a national security risk, and said, “No company...

Negotiations on the U.N. cybercrime convention progressed in January, but lingering issues remain, University Grenoble Alps Associate Professor of International Law Karine Bannelier writes in Lawfare. She said, “negotiations were marked by attempts by authoritarian states to transform this ... instr...

Organizations can use artificial intelligence to make decisions about people for a variety of reasons, such as selecting the best candidates from many job applications. However, AI systems can have discriminatory effects when used for decision making. For example, an AI system could reject applicati...