Lea Kissner will join LinkedIn as the company's new chief information security officer, TechCrunch reports. Kissner formerly served as CISO at the social platform X, departing November 2022 in the wake of Elon Musk assuming control of the company.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services released an advisory warning companies about ransomware group RansomHub, The Record reports. According to the advisory, RansomHub allegedly launched ransomware attacks against more than 210 companies, including the attack on UnitedHealth Group.
Google plans to summon Clearview AI in a privacy lawsuit against Texas concerning accusations around nonconsensual biometric data collection, Biometric Update reports.
Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, announced Meta met its requirements to be allowed to train artificial intelligence models on users' personal information.
The New York Department of State's Division of Consumer Protection released recommendations for parents to ensure children's data is protected while using educational technology.
Dublin City University is embracing the rampant increase in digital technologies and subsequent regulation with specialized masters programs that address the growing need for data protection professionals. IAPP Associate Editor Jennifer Bryant spoke with DCU staff and students who illustrated what the programs offer and why they've become a necessity.Full story
The European Commission is seeking a policy officer based out of San Francisco, California, to aid U.S. companies' EU Artificial Intelligence Act implementation. More specifically, the position will work closely with the European AI Office on "oversight/supervisory work and monitor developments relevant to compliance of providers and deployers of generative AI models and systems." Applications are due 6 Sept.
Infosecurity Magazine reports a study by Comparitech revealed the effects of ransomware attacks on U.S. schools since 2018. According to the study, more than 8,000 institutions were impacted by 491 recorded incidents. Those attacks included 6.7 million exposed individual records. Impacted schools have collectively spent an estimated USD2.5 billion to recover systems and data, in addition to improving cybersecurity measures.Full story
Morrison Foerster's Lokke Moerel and Marijn Storm break down the European Data Protection Board's ChatGPT Taskforce interim report. They discuss the implications of the ruling, in particular what it means if large language models cannot be trained on special sets of personal information containing ethnic origins, political opinions, sexual orientations and more.Full story
In an op-ed for Lawfare, Global Cyber Strategies founder and CEO Justin Sherman discussed key takeaways from a recent National Public Data breach involving 2.9 billion personal records. Sherman wrote "the aggregation of data at scale adds new dimensions to privacy risks," while the data brokerage that led to the NPD breach "remains a highly unregulated industry."Full story