Search Results for "Privacy"

Internet of Tattoos? NIST Workshop Plumbs Body Art Algorithms

In-brief: One in five adults in the U.S. sport body art, making tattoos a useful tool for identifying both criminals and their victims. A NIST workshop explored ways to use AI to better identify and catalog tatts. 

Will IoT Spell The End of Freemium?

In-brief: will growing fatigue over data collection by marketing firms and the advent of IoT spell the end of the “freemium” business model? The answer is: maybe, yes. 

Clueless Clause: Insurer Cites Lax Security in Challenge to Cottage Health Claim

In-brief: In what may become a trend, an insurance company is denying a claim from a California healthcare provider following the leak of data on more than 32,000 patients. The insurer, Columbia Casualty, charges that Cottage Health System did an inadequate job of protecting patient data. 

IEEE Proposes Standards For Safe, Connected Health Products

In-brief: a new publication by IEEE lays out a “building code” for medical device makers to help address security and privacy issues in products. 

Everything Tastes Better with Bluetooth: Understanding IoT Risk

In-brief: Marc Blackmer of Cisco says that, with so much promise, it can be hard to anticipate how individual or company-wide decisions to embrace the IoT might bear on cyber risk.