Only 43% of parents have set up a patient portal for their child others may not be optimizing portal use, according to a new poll.

The Federal Trade Commission’s investigation of ChatGPT maker OpenAI shows that the US government is beginning to get serious about regulating AI.

Researchers create a privacy technique that protects sensitive data while maintaining a machine-learning model’s performance.

Biobanks collect and store large amounts of data that researchers use to conduct a wide range of studies. Making sure participants understand what they’re getting into can help build trust in science.

The government faces legal restrictions on how much personal information it can gather on citizens, but the law is largely silent on agencies purchasing the data from commercial brokers.

The system analyzes the likelihood that an attacker could thwart a certain security scheme to steal secret information.

The fitness app Strava allows anyone to find the personal information—including home addresses—of some users, report researchers.

Brain scans have been used to interpret thoughts, but how far can this technology go?

Human DNA can be found nearly everywhere. That's good news for science, but bad news for privacy.

Environmental DNA provides a wealth of information for conservationists, archaeologists and forensic scientists. But the unintentional pickup of human genetic information raises ethical questions.