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In 2023, Google can notify you if personal info pops up in search Starting “early next year,” Google will be able to notify you if your personal info, such as your phone number, email, or home address, shows up in search results as part of its “results about you” tool. The announcement comes as Google has officially started rolling out the tool, which lets people easily create takedown requests for results with their personal info.…

Trump's social media executive order faces lawsuit The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology is taking aim at US President Donald Trump's social media executive order. The CDT filed a lawsuit against the president on Tuesday, alleging that the order violates the First Amendment and the right to free speech. "The order is plainly retaliatory: it attacks a private company, Twitter, for exercising its First Amendment right to comment on the President's statements," the lawsuit says. "More fundamentally, the…

You Can FaceTime Your Doctor Now Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced two measures to expand telehealth access for patients across the country. As of March 6, 2020, providers can offer telehealth visits to all of their Medicare and Medicaid patients, regardless of location, and still get reimbursed for the costs. (Previously, only patients in certain rural areas were eligible.) And, until…

1 - Iowa paid a security firm to break into a courthouse, then arrested employees when they succeeded The state of Iowa contracted with a prominent cybersecurity company to conduct “penetration tests” of certain municipal buildings in September, particularly courthouses.  In September, two employees of the company were arrested in the course of doing their jobs. The charges still have not been dropped. The incident has sparked concern across the cybersecurity industry, including worries that…