Privacy

The Department of Health and Human Services has introduced updates to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that would prevent healthcare organizations, doctors, and insurers from providing protected health information to state prosecutors in a bid to bolster abortion providers' and patients' privacy protections, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Approval has been given by the Senate to legislation that would extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for another two years, which headed to the desk of President Joe Biden just minutes after the surveillance law expired, reports CyberScoop.

More protections against data brokers were urged by lawmakers and data privacy experts to be added to the draft American Privacy Rights Act, which would only allow the deletion of consumer data provided that individual requests are made to the data brokers, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

The House has approved the bipartisan Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which seeks to bolster data privacy protections by prohibiting the warrantless acquisition of electronic and remote computing service providers' customer information among law enforcement and intelligence agencies, according to CyberScoop.

Cybernews reports that U.S. health provider Cherry Health had data from 185,000 patients compromised following a ransomware attack in December.

New guidelines addressing ethical concerns regarding the intelligence community's acquisition of Americans' commercially available information are set to be unveiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Mental health subscription platform Cerebral has been ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to pay more than $7 million to resolve charges alleging that it provided TIkTok, LinkedIn, Snapchat, and other third-party entities access to sensitive data of nearly 3.2 million users for advertising purposes, reports The Hacker News.