Welcome to the Future!
Data Security from student data to retail data to contracts to clean up data breaches is big business. The EU is often seen as taking a stronger approach to data protection predicts it will be big business at the tune of 415 Billion Euros a year.
Psst- a Euro is more valuable than a US Dollar.
Will Congress pass a national data security bill after the massive federal employee data breach. Odds are not high. There is a higher liklihood that next week there will be a new food trailer opening in Austin.
What does this mean? States will pass stronger data security bills from everything from retailers to public education contractors to health care data.
Protecting citizen data from the prying eyes of the government, hackers, and neighbors is the rally cry of everyone from Rand Paul to the Wyoming Legislature.
Wyoming’s Task Force on Digital Information will recommend whether the Legislature should move forward with its constitutional amendment again in 2016.
In 2015, the constitutional amendment ran into hurdles when legislators realized that protecting privacy might make a mess of open records.
To head this disaster off at the pass,…
One of Governor Abbott’s line item vetoes struck $5,000,000 in funding for University of Texas Center for Identity. The Center seeks to limit impact of data security breaches.
The Governor’s rational: “If The Center þr ldentíty is a príority, the University may use íts appropriationfor ínstitutional enhancement, leverage public-private partnerships, or allocate other resources þr this purpose. “
SOPIPA and Student Privacy Pledge are all the talk among Edtech companies gathered in NYC.
California’s SOPIPA passed in 2014 has influenced other state legislation. Student data protection isn’t just for state legislatures. Its also federal- Hello, FERPA.
And, state boards of education have used rule making to address data prote…
The federal employee data breach this week, triggered an emergency contract of $20+million to provide credit monitoring services.
It’s a common response to offer these services. The Texas Comptroller did the same a few years ago when state employee records were breached/exposed.
The techies say credit monitoring is only part of the solution when a person’s data is breached. Other parts to the solution are:
A data breach at Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services made 6,600 Medicaid patients’ information, including Social Security numbers and private health information, available online.
A federal judge in Los Angeles Monday refused to throw out legal claims that Sony was negligent in maintaining adequate data security.
Refresher: the Sony data hack led to the release of:
4.1 million current and former federal employees had their information exposed in a federal government data hack. California’s Department of Technology regulates data security.
The California Department of Technology reports 204 data breaches in 2014 among state agencies.
State cybersecurity jobs are notoriously tough to fill. The private sector pays better and state hiring moves at a glacial pace. As a result, data security is often outsourced which opens the data up to a…