Does Your Insurance Co Have Your Med Records?
This week in the Weekly News Roundup, UK health data is in the hands of insurance companies. Is that happening here, too? Also, credit card skimming is rising, is AI powering the car kill switch, and Windows is forced to be less aggressive in the EU. We also visit SillyVille.

The Articles

Privacy
https://notthebee.com/article/nikki-haley-says-every-person-on-social-media-should-be-verified-by-their-name-and-ill-assume-this-is-her-dropping-out-of-the-race/

https://www.wired.com/story/house-intellligence-section-702-reform/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/12/private-uk-health-data-donated-medical-research-shared-insurance-companies

Security
https://www.wired.com/story/ntmc-bangladesh-database-leak/

https://securityaffairs.com/154066/data-breach/state-of-maine-data-breach.html

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intelligence/2023/11/credit-card-skimming-on-the-rise-for-the-holiday-shopping-season

AI Overlord
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/scarlett-johansson-tackles-ai-legal-showdown-against-app-used-likeness-voice-ad

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/13/the-federal-kill-switch-mandate-is-an-ominous-sign-of-our-inevitable-surrender-to-tech-overlords/

Business
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/14/a-software-update-bricked-rivian-infotainment-systems/

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/8/23952878/microsoft-onedrive-windows-close-app-notification

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1984453

Silly
https://notthebee.com/article/theft-has-gotten-so-bad-in-dc-that-this-cvs-store-had-to-replace-the-toilet-paper-with-framed-photos-of-the-product-and-now-people-have-to-push-a-button-to-receive-assistance-in-the-tp-aisle/

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/uncategorized/2023/11/youtube-shows-ads-for-ad-blocker-financial-scams

https://kotaku.com/free-pizza-glitch-code-promo-dominos-canceled-orders-1851012935

Banned
https://reclaimthenet.org/microsoft-and-meta-detail-plans-to-combat-election-disinformation