At a recently held forum hosted by the Management Association of the Philippines and the Davao City Chamber of Commerce, National Privacy Commissioner Raymund Enriquez Liboro urged the government and private sector to make greater efforts to comply with the Data Privacy Act of 2012. Liboro...
The world has seen tremendous developments on artificial intelligence (AI).. From simple computing tasks, AI and Machine Learning (ML) has spawned several business applications such as cybersecurity defense, human resources, market prediction, accelerated reading, accounting, Fintech, and healthcare. AI-powered chatbots are ubiquitous in the tech...
The UK Information Commissioner, senior lawyers, MSPs and the Scottish Human Rights Commission recently voiced their concerns over Police Scotland’s cyber kiosks which have the ability to override passwords. The equipment, bought from an Israeli company, are scheduled to be deployed next month. However, experts have...
Facebook recently filed a patent that would make it easier for the company to target families via the contents of the photos they post, according to an application published this week. The system will reportedly use a more sophisticated way of data mining where details from...
Researchers from the universities of New York and Michigan said that they were able to train a machine learning algorithm to create fake fingerprints that can match a large number of real ones in databases. To create the fingerprints, known as DeepMasterPrints, the researchers fed an...
A startup founded by ex-Spotify executives recently announced a technology that it claims can make accurate content suggestions without intruding on the user’s privacy. Brian Whitman of Canopy says that their technology, which can be used on tech apps that need biographical and behavioral data, preserves...
The American Medical Informatics Association recently urged the Trump administration to update and harmonize the HIPAA and the Common Rule to cope with today’s changing privacy climate. The AMIA says that a more integrated approach is needed on how policies aimed at both the "health...
Top executives of Cathay Pacific were questioned this week by Hong Kong officials on the airline’s breach that affected around 9.4 million passengers. While the executives said that they are already working with 27 regulators in 15 jurisdictions, they refused to comment on whether affected...
The Australian Senate passed last Thursday amendments which introduced a few changes to the My Health Records Amendment (Strengthening Privacy) Bill 2018. While the system will be given improved privacy provisions, the automatic creation of digital health records will continue as planned for those who chose...
In a report released this week, Dutch authorities said that Microsoft Office’s telemetry data collection mechanism violates the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Investigators found the issues in ProPlus subscriptions of Office 2016 and Office 365, but also with the web-based version of Office...