From End Zones to Encryption: How New Orleans’ 2025 Super Bowl must tackle data privacy risks

Cutting-edge security technologies are being deployed to protect fans and staff at the 2025 Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans. From errant rogue drones and facial recognition to responsible social media monitoring, the big event relies on seamlessly integrating overlapping security systems. With the rise of cashless transactions on mobile apps, wireless systems’ data privacy is now as critical as physical security.

Whether it’s medical records, blood or tissue, patients want to know if researchers may use something from them

Many members of the public want to know if their health information or samples from their bodies will be used in research or to help develop new biomedical products, a new study finds. That’s especially true if their data and biospecimens might get used by commercial companies, or if identifying information will be attached when it’s shared.