"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s plans to consolidate data on diseases like measles and polio are raising concerns about patient privacy, delays in spotting long-term trends and ways the Trump administration may use the information."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/health/cdc-data-privacy-palantir.html
#healthcare #PublicHealth #InfoSec #DataSec #privacy #data #CDC #palantir #healthIT
"A systematic review published last month asks the question, how good at people are judging the accuracy of the news?" www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evid... #fakenews #media accuracy #infosec #datasec #cybersec
How Well Can People Spot Fake ...
NY State Bar Assoc.: "Media literacy also promotes active citizenship. Understanding how media influences political discourse empowers us to identify #propaganda and participate more effectively in democratic processes." nysba.org/why-media-li... #fakenews #infosec #datasec #cybersec #news #security
Judging the Credibility of Wha...
Not sure I like the openness of ParkRun's data. Without a login you can get a lot of info about a particular runner. Thieves can figure out when you're likely to be out and grab your stuff. Insurers & bureaucrats can see how fit you really are. Your age is given away to the nearest 5 years. Seems a bit like accidental self doxxing.
Do any #infosec people have an opinion?
Click on a name to see what I mean:
https://www.parkrun.co.nz/universityofwaikato/results/latestresults/
#ParkRun #running #datasec #doxxed
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Two consecutive stories on my Mastodon feed show the dichotomy and dissonance that we are currently experiencing. On the one hand, a major cloud hack has compromised the information of countless Americans, and on the other hand a technology publication encouraging businesses to not soft pedal on AI.
Eww. Costco is using its 74 million customers' data to build an advertising network
Just like Walmart and Target #privacy #CustomerData #DataSec #advertising #greed #WhoControlsMyData
Has anyone heard of IDX.us? It's supposed to be an "identity protection service" like Lifelock. I am suspicious that it's not .com
I just got a letter from a law firm, Berry Dunn McNeil and Parker about a significant Sep 2023 health data breach involving my #data #privacy #ProtectedData #breach #IDtheft #DataSec
The data belonged to Reliable Networks of Maine. I haven't been in Maine since 1979 but maybe they handle national data.
I don't want to give IDX any data if this whole thing is a #scam or elaborate #phishing ruse #security
It was only a matter of time. #hack #datasec https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23andme-confirms-hackers-stole-ancestry-data-on-6-9-million-users/
You can't even trust your own WiFi router sometimes:
https://www.linuxliaison.org/index.php/2017/06/22/wifi-routers-are-far-from-secure/
