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San Francisco (CNN Business)A federal inquiry has been opened into Google’s efforts to collect health data on millions of Americans through its “Project Nightingale” program. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights opened the inquiry on Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported. The office “would like to learn more information about this mass collection of […]

The trouble began for Ken and Judy Johnson – a pair of retirees from Austin, Texas – at a Fort Lauderdale arts festival. “There was a couple of people in there saying ‘come get your DNA tested,’” Judy recalled. The company, Genexe Health, billed itself as a genetic testing “one-stop shop.” With a quick cheek […]

Employers have welcomed telehealth benefits with open arms, but they’re having a hard time getting employees to share their enthusiasm. Almost 75% of major employers offered some type of telehealth benefit in 2018, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation Employee Health Benefit Survey, up from just 27% in 2015. That number doesn’t include medium- and small-sized […]

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will have no lack of material to choose from when he kicks off the central bank’s annual Jackson Hole symposium Friday with a speech on the challenges for monetary policy. A deglobalization shock touched off by Donald Trump’s trade policy; super low interest rates, including US$16.7 trillion in negative-yielding bonds; […]

The phone rings. “This call is to inform you that the IRS is filing a lawsuit against you. To get more information about this case file, please call immediately on our department number 1-800-555-5555. Thank you.” If you haven’t heard this exact call, dollars to donuts you’ve heard something like it. Whether it’s IRS fraud, […]

Small business cyber attacks are happening just as frequently as targeted attacks on big businesses, but the cost is much steeper. By: Jared Shelly | June 21, 2019 Topics: Business Interruption | Crisis Management | Critical Risks | Cyber | Cyber Risks | Risk Management We hear plenty about cyber attacks targeting big businesses. In 2019 alone, 540 million Facebook records were exposed; a Toyota data breach exposed the personal […]