Privacy

Twitter revealed that more national, state, and local governments around the world have been demanding the removal of content or disclosure of confidential information from its users, with nearly 60,000 legal demands fielded over a six-month period last year, according to The Associated Press.

SecurityWeek reports that 34 healthcare providers and insurance carriers have been impacted by a data breach that hit OneTouchPoint, a mailing and printing services provider.

Meta is again in the hot seat for its healthcare privacy practices. A second lawsuit accuses two healthcare providers and Facebook of scraping data from hospital websites.

Patients are overwhelmingly concerned by the possible misuse of their data and health data privacy risks, with most wanting the option to opt-in to data sharing practices, a new American Medical Association survey confirms.

Now that strict data-management regulations like the GDPR and CCPA are in place, identity audits are a near-necessity for online organizations. Here’s how identity auditing works, how to carry out an identity audit and how customer identity and access management (CIAM) solutions may help automate the audit process.

More than 69 million members of the virtual pet website Neopets had their personal information compromised following a data breach, reports BleepingComputer.