#Data Privacy

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 OpenAI identifies security issue involving third-party tool, says user data was not accessed — 11/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Cybersecurity, #Artificial Intelligence
• 🇺🇸 Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor.

  Related: #AI Ethics, #Healthcare Technology
• 🇺🇸 What banking can teach health care about protecting patient data — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The culture and expectations surrounding health data privacy continue to lag behind those that define the financial system.

  Related: #Healthcare Policy, #Regulatory Compliance
• 🇺🇸 SubFLOT: Submodel Extraction for Efficient and Personalized Federated Learning via Optimal Transport — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.06631v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy, but its practical deployment is hampered by system and st...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Machine Learning, #Algorithmic Efficiency
• 🇺🇸 FedDAP: Domain-Aware Prototype Learning for Federated Learning under Domain Shift — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.06795v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training across multiple clients without exposing private data, making it ideal for privacy-sensi...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Machine Learning
• 🇺🇸 Adaptive Differential Privacy for Federated Medical Image Segmentation Across Diverse Modalities — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.06518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large volumes of medical data remain underutilized because centralizing distributed data is often infeasible due to strict privacy regulations and in...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Medical Technology
• 🇺🇸 Say Something Else: Rethinking Contextual Privacy as Information Sufficiency — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.06409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents increasingly draft messages on behalf of users, yet users routinely overshare sensitive information and disagree on what counts as private...

  Related: #AI Ethics, #Human-Computer Interaction
• 🇺🇸 NHS data chief pushes for deeper rollout of Palantir technology despite outcry — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  Ming Tang says the platform, which collates patient information in one place, is delivering ‘outstanding results’ in England

  Related: #Digital Health, #Public Sector Procurement
• 🇺🇸 Elon Musk’s DOGE stole your Social Security data — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  The Trump administration is accused of stealing the Social Security data of 500 million Americans, living and dead, and sharing it with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for misus...

  Related: #Government Accountability, #Political Controversy, #Technology Ethics
• 🇺🇸 As DOJ prepares to share state voter data with DHS, a key privacy officer resigns — 03/04/2026 [USA]

  Since last year, the Justice Department has made unprecedented demands to states for sensitive voter data, including drivers license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.

  Related: #Government Transparency
• 🇺🇸 U.S. envoy summoned by Beijing amid dispute over Hong Kong data laws — 29/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Diplomatic Relations, #National Security, #Corporate Risk
• 🇺🇸 FedAgain: A Trust-Based and Robust Federated Learning Strategy for an Automated Kidney Stone Identification in Ureteroscopy — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.19512v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The reliability of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging critically depends on its robustness to heterogeneous and corrupted images acquire...

  Related: #Medical AI
• 🇬🇧 Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data — 22/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/22/fca-d...

  Related: #Palantir, #UK Government
• 🇬🇧 FCA deal gives Palantir yet more access to inner workings of power in Britain — 22/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Contract affords AI analytics firm access to trove of data on one of the most important financial centres in the world</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/22/pala...

  Related: #Government Contracts
• 🇬🇧 Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost? — 21/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Gig AI trainers worldwide are selling moments of their lives, including calls and texts, to AI companies for quick cash</p><p>One morning last year, Jacobus Louw set out on his daily neighborhood w...

  Related: #AI Ethics
• 🇺🇸 Probabilistic Federated Learning on Uncertain and Heterogeneous Data with Model Personalization — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.18083v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conventional federated learning (FL) frameworks often suffer from training degradation due to data uncertainty and heterogeneity across local clients...

  Related: #Machine Learning
• 🇺🇸 Fitbit’s AI health coach will soon be able to read your medical records — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Would you share your medical records with a personal trainer? How about a virtual one? Google, which this week announced it is giving Fitbit's AI health coach the ability to read your medical records,...

  Related: #AI Health
• 🇺🇸 Can Blindfolded LLMs Still Trade? An Anonymization-First Framework for Portfolio Optimization — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.17692v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For LLM trading agents to be genuinely trustworthy, they must demonstrate understanding of market dynamics rather than exploitation of memorized tick...

  Related: #AI Finance
• 🇺🇸 Patel says FBI is now buying Americans' internet location data — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  The FBI is scooping up commercially available data, including an internet user's location, based on internet ads, Director Kash Patel said Wednesday.

  Related: #Government Surveillance
• 🇺🇸 A federated learning framework with knowledge graph and temporal transformer for early sepsis prediction in multi-center ICUs — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.15651v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The early prediction of sepsis in intensive care unit (ICU) patients is crucial for improving survival rates. However, the development of accurate pr...

  Related: #Healthcare AI
• 🇺🇸 MemX: A Local-First Long-Term Memory System for AI Assistants — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.16171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present MemX, a local-first long-term memory system for AI assistants with stability-oriented retrieval design. MemX is implemented in Rust on top...

  Related: #AI Memory
• 🇬🇧 Reform UK may breach data laws with free energy bills competition — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Experts say Nigel Farage’s party is not being transparent about how it will use data it collects on people’s voting habits</p><p>Reform UK risks breaching data protection laws with its competition ...

  Related: #Political Compliance
• 🇺🇸 A Robust Framework for Secure Cardiovascular Risk Prediction: An Architectural Case Study of Differentially Private Federated Learning — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.13293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate cardiovascular risk prediction is crucial for preventive healthcare; however, the development of robust Artificial Intelligence (AI) models ...

  Related: #Healthcare AI, #Federated Learning
• 🇺🇸 The Best Dark Web Monitoring Services and Bundles — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  Data breaches are more common than ever. Here are the best ways I've found to protect yourself online.

  Related: #Cybersecurity
• 🇺🇸 Stake the Points: Structure-Faithful Instance Unlearning — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.12915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine unlearning (MU) addresses privacy risks in pretrained models. The main goal of MU is to remove the influence of designated data while preserv...

  Related: #Machine Learning
• 🇺🇸 Federated Hierarchical Clustering with Automatic Selection of Optimal Cluster Numbers — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.12684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Clustering (FC) is an emerging and promising solution in exploring data distribution patterns from distributed and privacy-protected data i...

  Related: #Federated Learning, #Machine Learning
• 🇺🇸 Learnability and Privacy Vulnerability are Entangled in a Few Critical Weights — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.13186v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prior approaches for membership privacy preservation usually update or retrain all weights in neural networks, which is costly and can lead to unnece...

  Related: #Machine Learning
• 🇬🇧 Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online — 14/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds data from flagship medical research leaked dozens of times</p><p>Confidential health data has been exposed online on dozens of occasions, a Guardian investig...

  Related: #Medical Research Ethics, #Cybersecurity, #Institutional Responsibility
• 🇺🇸 Few-for-Many Personalized Federated Learning — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.11992v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) aims to train customized models for clients with highly heterogeneous data distributions while preserving data pr...

  Related: #Machine Learning, #AI Efficiency
• 🇬🇧 Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’, health bosses told — 12/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Health justice charity Medact says data-sharing potential could be used for UK version of US immigration raids</p><p>Palantir’s NHS contract opens the door to the Big Brother-style data-sharing tha...

  Related: #Government Contracts