Privacy

NSO Group has filed an appeal to reject last month's jury ruling that ordered a $167 million payment to WhatsApp after infecting over 1,400 users of the messaging app with spyware as part of an attack campaign six years ago, TechCrunch reports.

Brazil-based Unimed, which is the largest healthcare cooperative worldwide, had at least 14 million patient conversations with doctors and its chatbot "Sara" leaked by an unsecured instance of the open-source real-time data transmission platform Kafka, according to Cybernews.

Oregon has become the second state after Maryland to approve legislation prohibiting precise geolocation data sales, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Meta AI collected 32 of 35 different data points from its users, including contact details, financial information, user content, usage details, diagnostics, and location, making it the most aggressive among a group of 10 widely used artificial intelligence chatbots in obtaining user data, ZDNET reports.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has been sought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center and children's advocacy group Fairplay to launch a probe on Google's updated Family Link program that would allow youths younger than 13 to access the Gemini AI chatbot, noting such a move's violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

TechCrunch reports that major U.S. telecommunications firms AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon were noted by Senate Intelligence Committee member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., to have failed to inform the Senate regarding federal surveillance requests on lawmakers' mobile devices despite being mandated to do so as part of their contracts.

Kettering operates 14 medical centers and more than 120 outpatient locations in western Ohio.

U.S. biotechnology firm Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has pledged to adhere to the current privacy policy of 23andMe, which allows consumer deletion of genetic data, as it entered a $256 million agreement to purchase the embattled DNA testing services company's Total Health and Research Services business, Personal Genome Service, biobank, and other assets, reports The Record.