Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Privacy

Blue Shield shared the private health data of millions with Google for years (techcrunch.com)
Health insurance giant Blue Shield of California is notifying millions of people of a data breach. The company confirmed on Wednesday that it had been sharing patients’ private health information with tech and advertising giant Google since 2021.

Data Privacy, Health Insurance, Google, Data Breaches

9 points by coloneltcb 3 days ago | 2 comments

GM Argues It Can Sell Your Data Because You Drive on Public Roads (motor1.com)

Data Privacy, Automotive, Law, Technology

12 points by cebert 4 days ago | 5 comments

Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI (theregister.com)
A group of 48 House Democrats is concerned that Elon Musk's cost-trimmers at DOGE are being careless in their use of AI to help figure out where to slash, creating security risks and giving the oligarch's artificial intelligence lab an inside track to train its models on government info.

Politics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Security

25 points by rntn 7 days ago | 1 comments

Apple now uses data from bug reports for AI training (appleinsider.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Apple, Data Privacy, Software Development

10 points by giuliomagnifico 7 days ago | 0 comments

China's DeepSeek Poses 'Profound Threat' to National Security,House Report Claim (forbes.com)
A bipartisan House panel released a report Wednesday accusing DeepSeek of posing a “profound threat” to U.S. national security, alleging the Chinese AI startup harvests user data on behalf of the Chinese government, as efforts to ban DeepSeek have escalated in recent months amid national security concerns.

China, National Security, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Government

5 points by abacussh 9 days ago | 2 comments

You cannot have our user's data (sourcehut.org)
As you may have noticed, SourceHut has deployed Anubis to parts of our services to protect ourselves from aggressive LLM crawlers.

Data Privacy, AI, Open Source

116 points by Tomte 11 days ago | 109 comments

Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP records (theguardian.com)
Researchers from China are to be allowed access to half a million UK GP records despite western intelligence agencies’ fears about the authoritarian regime amassing health data, the Guardian can reveal.

Data Privacy, Health Data, China, UK, Government

7 points by ndsipa_pomu 11 days ago | 5 comments

Data Protection Commission Announces commencement of inquiry into X (dataprotection.ie)
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced the commencement of an inquiry into the processing of personal data comprised in publicly-accessible posts posted on the ‘X’ social media platform by EU/EEA users, for the purposes of training generative artificial intelligence models, in particular the Grok Large Language Models (LLMs).

Data Privacy, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, Europe

6 points by rntn 11 days ago | 0 comments

U.S. human data repositories 'under review' for gender identity descriptors (thetransmitter.org)
The U.S. government is reviewing federally funded repositories of human data to ensure they comply with a recent executive order on gender identity, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.

Government, Data Privacy, Gender Identity, Technology, Human Data

9 points by SubiculumCode 15 days ago | 5 comments

Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are Things It Might Know About You (nytimes.com)
The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name and your bank account number. The student debt you hold. Your disability status. The company that employs you and the wages you earn there. And that’s just a start.

Politics, Data Privacy, Government, Surveillance

8 points by instagib 16 days ago | 1 comments

Tell HN: Amazon order info is getting sold (ycombinator.com)
Today from Amazon, I bought an iPad (sold by Amazon.com) and an iPad cover (sold by ZMSolutions in receipt, TiMOVO in Amazon order page) in a single order at 10:11 AM EST. At 10:15 AM EST I received an obvious scam call asking if I authorize a MacBook Pro purchase from Amazon.

Data Privacy, Amazon, Scams

11 points by aleyan 16 days ago | 8 comments

UK creating 'murder prediction' tool to identify people most likely to kill (theguardian.com)
The UK government is developing a “murder prediction” programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers.

Crime, Predictive Policing, Artificial Intelligence, Law Enforcement, Data Privacy

17 points by molteanu 17 days ago | 3 comments

Apple-UK data privacy row should not be secret, court rules (bbc.com)
A judge has sided with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations - including the BBC - and ruled a legal row between the UK government and Apple over data privacy cannot be held in secret.

Data Privacy, Law, Apple, UK Government, News Media

7 points by colinprince 18 days ago | 0 comments

France suggests targeting Big Tech's data use in response to US tariffs (politico.eu)
French Economy and Finance Minister Eric Lombard has suggested striking back against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs broadside by more strictly regulating U.S. Big Tech's use of data.

France, Big Tech, Data Privacy, Trade Policy, US Economy

18 points by giuliomagnifico 19 days ago | 3 comments

Doge Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data (wired.com)
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has plans to stage a “hackathon” next week in Washington, DC. The goal is to create a single “mega API”—a bridge that lets software systems talk to one another—for accessing IRS data, sources tell WIRED. The agency is expected to partner with a third-party vendor to manage certain aspects of the data project.

Government, Technology, Data Privacy, Artificial Intelligence

53 points by danso 21 days ago | 30 comments

What is Local first development (alexop.dev)
Imagine having complete control over your data in every web app, from social media platforms to productivity tools. Picture using these apps offline with automatic synchronization when you’re back online. This is the essence of local-first web development – a revolutionary approach that puts users in control of their digital experience.

Web Development, User Experience, Data Privacy, Offline Applications

119 points by yonz 22 days ago | 55 comments

Show HN: I built a privacy-first period tracker but it seems nobody cares (ycombinator.com)
There’s something quietly unsettling about how normal it's become to hand over our most personal data to apps that barely deserve our trust.

Privacy, Health Tech, Data Privacy

10 points by ebenezerdon 26 days ago | 9 comments

OpenSNP Shutting Down (tzovar.as)
As this blog post is being published, we are sending out emails to all openSNP users with some news: OpenSNP will be turned off – and with that also delete all the data stored on it – on April 30, 2025.

Shutdowns, Genomics, Data Privacy

11 points by fbn79 26 days ago | 0 comments

How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border (theguardian.com)
With reports of people being turned away at airports over messages found on devices, here’s what to do to minimize risks

Data Privacy, Security, Travel, Technology, United States

94 points by beardyw 31 days ago | 98 comments

Escaping USA Tech, Bye Bye Dropbox, Hello Jottacloud (mjanssen.nl)
I recently got more concerned about what is happening in the US since a certain president He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and what this does in the world and my personal life.

Data Privacy, Cloud Storage, Technology, USA Politics

18 points by marc0janssen 32 days ago | 0 comments

Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue' (theregister.com)
Google has admitted it lost some customer data, possibly forever.

Google, Data Privacy, Security, Technical Issues

7 points by LinuxBender 33 days ago | 0 comments

Google confirms it deleted Maps Timeline data for some (theverge.com)
Google Maps users have recently been complaining on places like Reddit that their Timeline data — the app’s historical record of where they’ve been — had disappeared. Now, Google has confirmed that it accidentally deleted the data and that anyone who wasn’t using Google’s cloud backups is out of luck.

Google, Maps, Data Privacy, Technology, User Experience

9 points by nini1294 33 days ago | 3 comments

UK wants dirt on data brokers before criminals get there first (theregister.com)
The UK government is inviting experts to provide insights about the data brokerage industry and the potential risks it poses to national security as it moves to push new data-sharing legislation over the line.

Data Privacy, Government, National Security, Data Brokerage

45 points by rntn 39 days ago | 21 comments

Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Information on Nearly All Users (gizmodo.com)
The owner of a data brokerage business recently put out a creepy-ass video in which he bragged about the degree to which his industry could collect and analyze data on the habits of billions of people.

Data Privacy, Surveillance, Big Data, Technology, Business

6 points by doener 39 days ago | 0 comments

EU-US data deal may be dead in the water (simpleanalytics.com)
The EU-US data transfer deal might be heading for another collapse.

EU, Data Privacy, International Relations, Technology

7 points by belter 45 days ago | 0 comments

1Password in your region: you can choose where your data is hosted (1password.com)
1Password was designed with you in mind. You can choose where your data is hosted and which currency you pay in.

Security, Data Privacy, Software, Location

4 points by robin_reala 46 days ago | 0 comments

Apple takes legal action in UK data privacy row (bbc.com)
Apple is taking legal action to try to overturn a demand made by the UK government to view its customers' private data if required.

Data Privacy, Apple, UK, Lawsuits, Government

7 points by adrian_mrd 52 days ago | 1 comments

UK watchdog investigates TikTok and Reddit over child data privacy concerns (theregister.com)
The UK's data protection watchdog has launched three investigations into certain social media platforms following concerns about the protection of privacy among teenage users.

Data Privacy, Social Media, Teenagers, UK, Regulation

5 points by LinuxBender 53 days ago | 0 comments

Microsoft unveils finalized EU Data Boundary as European doubt over US grows (theregister.com)
Microsoft has completed its EU data boundary, however, analysts and some regional cloud players are voicing concerns over dependencies on a US entity, even with the guarantees in place.

Data Privacy, Cloud Computing, Microsoft, European Union, Geopolitics

4 points by rntn 54 days ago | 1 comments

Mozilla is trying to backtrack on Firefox's controversial data privacy update (pcgamer.com)

Mozilla, Firefox, Data Privacy, Privacy, Software Updates

60 points by HelloUsername 54 days ago | 92 comments