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Early this year privacy advocates had a win when ICE retracted its planned policy to allow access to a national law enforcement license-plate tracking system.
Local ICE offices didn’t like this. So, they started buying access to a private company’s vehcile registration database. Houston ICE office is noted as buying the private company’s vehicle database.
On going criminal investigations, where constitutional protections apply, are one thing, but open access to a private co…
A New Jersey data security bill is called best practices for businesses and government, but also increases the costs of government and of doing business.
The bill would require notification for more data breaches. Like most states notification in New Jersey was required for traditional indentify fraud issues- like when a name and social security number are released.
The new legidslation requires disclosure of a breach if usernames and email addresses, in combination with a…
Washington Post points out that local regulations on ride share continuously forego obtianing access to anonymized ride share data. Its the same data local governments collect from taxicab drivers.
The data serves two purposes.
(1) It strengthens transportation systems and gives tools for transportation planners, and
(2)It provides an understadning of how many jobs ride share is creating.
Posted indata privacy, legislative trend
Lots of nobel bills become studies and reports when the opposition is vocal. For the last years, the Attorney General of California has released data breach reports. In 2013, there were 167 breaches reported to the California Attorney General, exposing data of 18.5 Million Californians. The California Attorney General also makes the following recommendations: For the health care industry: – Use strong encryption to protect medical info… Does this sound familiar? A state entity sends unecrypted names and social security numbers? Yes, much like the Texas Comptroller incident, a Pension system in Arizona sent unecrypted filed in regular mail to a third party provider. The third party provider never received the unecrypted disks. Now, the state is spending $300,000 to provide indentity protection for the affected retirees. [News 4 Tu… Canada is considering imposing $100,000 fines on businesses that fail to notify customers of data breaches. Currently Canada utilizes a regional patch work of data security legislation, the national fine for businesses would be a first for Canada. [Info Security Magazine] Refreshing Recollection: The FCC can and does impose fines on businesses, like it did on two telecom companies … RollCall argues that the down side of hightened data security legislation is that it makes consumers complacent. Consumers aren’t encouraged or empowered to protect their own personal data. Are more regulations on business the answer to data security? [Roll Call] New Jersey Legisalture is moving a bill that would place new burdens on business and government in the Garden State. Businesses & government would be required to maintain databases that allow quick contact to customers/clients/citizens in case of a data breach. The bill also expands the type of breaches that have to be disclosed to include usernames and passwords. [NJ A3146] Florida passed a data security bill earlier this year. A Republican in a neighboring state, Alabama, is filing legislation to require companies and financial institutions to disclose to customers when their personal information is exposed. The Alabama Governor also initiated a push to upgrade all state software to better protect personal privacy.
Posted indata privacy, legislative trend, retail data breach
A contentious state house race in Kentucky has reached new dramatic heights when the Democratic Party sent out the arrest record of the Republican candidate, including his Social Security Number. A botched recovery for breaching data privacy by the Democratic Party isn’t helping this situation. The Republican called on the state Attorney General to investigate. This campaign oops moment has led to more talk of better data security laws.
Posted incampaign trend, data privacy, legislative trend
State Data Breach Reporting- Example California
AZ Pension Participants Data Breach
Imposing Fines on Businesses that Fail to Notify Consumers of Data Breaches
Does data security legislation make consumers complacent to protect their own data?
NJ Data Security Bill Advancing
AL Bill: Require Companies to Notify Customers of Data Breaches
Democratic Party Mailer Includes Social Security Number of Republican Candidate