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• Lawsuit Alleges AI Platform Illegally Recorded Patient-Clinician Conversations

  Linked article about a lawsuit in California. AI was used to transcribe conversations between patients and drs. Audio is sent to the cloud for processing. This is becoming very common in healthcare now. Some sources say 80% of physicians in the US and Canada use these. They aren’t suing under HIPAA. Rather, under some California state laws. Company says it is HIPAA compliant. That’s prob true. They prob also make a good faith effort to protect the data. But it is impossible. This event hap...

• Post #2420262

  Paywalled, but I’ll assume the NHS here is the National Health Service in the UK. “Just don’t get sick bro!” The prob ofc is, everybody will need healthcare in their life. We are at our most vulnerable when we need it the most. Here in the US we have had endless breaches of healthcare data. Companies that promise to keep it secure. Ofc they can’t. Even the ones who make a good faith effort. They can’t either! So we get mass breaches, millions of patients. On a monthly basis. Or even more o...

• Challenge over Met Police's use of live facial recognition lost

  From the Beeb. Law-abiding citizens have “nothing to fear” The guy falsely stopped said he will appeal the ruling. I don’t live in London or even UK but I hate that these systems are becoming unavoidable. At least if you ever leave your house, lol. As London, so eventually Chicago. As Chicago, so eventually every one horse town. We’re building out a world of complete, unavoidable surveilence. Even where you WALK, now. I hate it. I hate it, and it won’t end well. I’m glad poor Orwell...

• Online shopping, privacy and behavior prediction. A rant.

  So years ago I made an account on an online shopping platform. I took pains to do it as privately as I could. Shipping address as PO box. Didn’t use real name to sign up. Masked credit card for payment. Etc. I had it for IDK like 6 years? 7 years? I didn’t use it a LOT, but let’s say once a month avg. Over those years I had 100% the best feedback rating. I never caused any prob to anyone. I acted in good faith. Suddenly one day… account canceled. Contacted company. They said send us copy of...

• Closing the Data Broker Loophole

  I found this, it’s about the data broker loophole. The problem is, in the US we have 4th Amendment protection against warantless searches. Many other nations, have a similar right, by another name. Canada has Section 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. These are more and more bypassed by data brokers. The government purchases data from data brokers. Data it could not get without a warant in the past. Maybe this is not as much a problem yet in Canada as in the US? I’m not sure, hope some...

• Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

  Paper by, Simon Lermen, Daniel Paleka, Joshua Swanson, Michael Aerni, Nicholas Carlini, Florian Tramèr It talks about deanonymizing those who writes under a pseudonym. Sites like reddit, lemmy would be that type. From the paper, Given two databases of pseudonymous individuals, each containing unstructured text written by or about that individual, we implement a scalable attack pipeline that uses LLMs to: (1) extract identity-relevant features, (2) search for candidate matches via sema...

• Moving and keeping home addy private?

  I’m sorry, this topic is kinda USA centric. At least the details. Maybe not the core idea though. For the non-USA readers, KYC = know your customer. I am soon to move to a new home for a job xfer. I wish I could do it privately. I had a stalker who broke into my home. I am still apprehensive and tense even though it was years ago. It feels impossible to move privately 😠 I know about Michael Bazzel’s Privacy books, and I have read over them. They are good and I follow his advize for some thin...

• Post #408994

  Many of us know how bad modern cars are for privacy. Yet many of our friends and neighbors do not realize how intrusive it really is. I linked a blog entry from Mozilla’s investigation about car privacy. In that blog is a link to their make-by-make analysis. The amount of very intimate information a modern car collects is honestly appalling. It includes health data, real time mood information, weight gain or loss, and so on. And it does so even for passengers. The web has many resources talkin...