Privacy risks to watch and simple ways to protect yourself
Medical Imaging AI and Your Privacy: What You Need to Know and What You Can Do Artificial intelligence is changing how radiologists read scans—catching tumors faster, flagging fractures, and sometimes spotting things the human eye misses. That’s good for patients. But the same technology introduces privacy risks that are only now getting serious attention from medical societies and regulators. If you’ve ever had an X‑ray, CT, or MRI, your images may have been processed by an AI tool you never knew about. And that tool may have shared your data in ways you wouldn’t expect. ...