The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) published the final version of its guidelines on data protection and privacy obligations in tele-health services, following its March draft. The guidelines are directed to healthcare organizations, clinics, health practitioners, and relevant service providers involved in data processing operations throughout the tele-health value chain.

The guidelines map out the steps that healthcare providers and ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals of the Federal Court has held that Artificial Intelligence (AI) cannot be named the inventor of a patent, because the term “individual” in the U.S. Patent Act necessarily refers to human beings. The decision was delivered in an appeal filed by Dr. Stephen Thaler, whose application for patent protection for the products of his AI ...

The U.S. mobile carrier T-Mobile agreed to pay $500 million to settle a class action lawsuit. The class action was filed by consumers following a cyberattack on T-Mobile’s systems last summer, which compromised the personal data of at least 76.6 million people – currently, the largest ever carrier breach on record.

According to the settlement authorized by the court, T-Mobile, ...