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An MIT-developed medical database evolved into PhysioNet, a global biomedical data repository used by thousands of researchers worldwide, as detailed in a recent Nature Health paper.
Databricks Delta Sharing is an open protocol that enables secure, live data sharing across cloud providers without replication, reducing egress costs and simplifying multi-cloud data access.
Medicaid officials improperly shared data on millions of people with ICE, who then shared it with the data analytics firm Palantir, according to new court filings in an ongoing lawsuit.
A WIRED security roundup reveals that period tracker apps, notably Stardust, share intimate health data with third-party analytics firms and Facebook, raising serious privacy concerns.
A BBC article highlights a new Mozilla Foundation report revealing that some popular period tracking apps share sensitive health data with third parties like Google, Meta, and TikTok, while others have strong privacy protections. It provides guidance on how users can assess privacy risks in such apps.
The California legislature has agreed to upload driver's license and ID card data to a private national database (SPEXS) operated by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA), under pressure from Governor Gavin Newsom and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Privacy advocates warn the data could be weaponized against immigrant and transgender individuals, despite claimed guardrails.
Google Cloud introduces the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), an open specification for representing metadata and curated knowledge in markdown files to improve data sharing and context for AI agents. The format aims to make knowledge from fragmented internal systems portable and interoperable.
AWS Bedrock will require users to share data with Anthropic for access to the Mythos model and future models, raising privacy concerns for enterprise and government clients.
OpenAI offers free daily API tokens (up to 2.5M tokens for lighter models) through its data sharing program, accessible by toggling a setting in the dashboard; the trade-off is that prompts and outputs may be used for training.
The NIH has added the Hugging Face Hub to its official list of Generalist Repositories for data sharing, allowing NIH-funded researchers to use it in their data sharing plans.
Yoti's age verification process reportedly shares users' facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties, raising privacy concerns.
A class action lawsuit alleges OpenAI shared user ChatGPT queries with Meta and Google, raising privacy concerns.