January 15, 2021
(ABC News) – The European Union’s drug regulator said Friday that COVID-19 vaccine documents stolen from its servers in a cyberattack have been not only leaked to the web, but “manipulated” by hackers. The European Medicines Agency said that an … Read More
January 15, 2021
(Associated Press) – As states across the U.S. roll out the COVID-19 vaccine to people 65 and older, senior citizens are scrambling to figure out how to sign up to get their shots. Many states and counties ask people to … Read More
January 14, 2021
(The Verge) – A coalition of health and tech companies, which includes Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle, is working on an initiative that aims to make it easier for people to access their COVID-19 vaccination records digitally. As people are beginning … Read More
January 13, 2021
(The Verge) – A popular period and fertility tracking app has settled with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations that it lied to users about sharing private health information with third-party firms, including Facebook and Google. Flo, a period and … Read More
January 11, 2021
(Medical Xpress) – In a recent paper in the journal Heart Rhythm, doctors describe how they turned off the potentially life-saving cardiac defibrillator function of an implanted Medtronic device simply by holding an iPhone 12 near it. The authors had … Read More
January 11, 2021
(The Verge) – The Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with photo storage app Ever that it says used customers’ photos to develop facial recognition technology without telling them, the agency announced Monday. Under the terms of the agreement, … Read More
January 6, 2021
(NPR) – Privacy concerns have been raised after ministers in Singapore’s government acknowledged that data collected by its widely used COVID-19 contact-tracing program may be turned over to police for criminal investigations. Desmond Tan, minister of state for home affairs, … Read More
December 31, 2020
(Fast Company) – This year marks 70 years since Alan Turing published his paper introducing the concept of the Turing Test in response to the question, “Can machines think?” The test’s goal was to determine if a machine can exhibit … Read More
December 29, 2020
(The Wall Street Journal) – A New Jersey man is suing local authorities who he says wrongly arrested him based on a false facial-recognition match, in a case that risks further inflaming debate over the utility and accuracy of the … Read More
December 29, 2020
(Tech Crunch) – After decades of global expansion and consolidation in the tech sector, antitrust is now a headline issue for the industry across the world. What has been a slow and sputtering series of disparate actions over the past … Read More
