privacy
U.S. Senate votes to bar TikTok from government devices as state bans multiply
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate late Wednesday unanimously passed a bill to ban federal employees from downloading TikTok on their work phones. Critics of TikTok, a widely popular social media platform, say the app creates national security concerns because of its ability to track users’ data — and because the Chinese government can compel that […]
Fired Arkansas Human Services worker mishandled Medicaid clients’ personal information
An Arkansas Department of Human Services employee used her personal email account to handle protected information about Medicaid recipients, according to the agency. The mishandled information included beneficiaries’ ID numbers, dates of birth, gender information, location data and flu diagnoses of 925 individuals, according to a news release. The breached data did not include names, […]