Nursing Home Workers Still Posting Nude and Vulgar Photos of Residents on Snapchat by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, June 23, 2017, 8 a.m. In the last year alone, employees of at least 18 nursing homes and assisted living facilities have posted unauthorized — and in some cases, vulgar and stomach-turning — [Read More…]
Mark Bergen reports: Alphabet Inc.’s Google has quietly decided to scrub an entire category of online content — personal medical records — from its search results, a departure from its typically hands-off approach to policing the web. Google lists the information it removes from its search results on its policy [Read More…]
There’s been yet another massive data leak involved enriched voter registration data. You can read about it on a number of sites this morning, but I just want to pull out one quick statement from The Hill’s coverage to give you an idea of what’s being compiled – and shared [Read More…]
Robin Emmott reports: The European Union can levy economic sanctions on anyone caught attacking EU states’ computer networks, EU foreign ministers said on Monday, the bloc’s latest step to deter more attacks following incidents in Britain and France. […] EU foreign ministers agreed that so-called restrictive measures including travel bans, [Read More…]