Welcome to the Future!
Pennsylvania State Rep. Dan Miller, a former teacher, is crafting student data security legislation that will:
Like other states, Pennsylvania is looking to California’s landmark student data protection legislation for guidance.
Delaware this year enacted a package of data security bills, including:
Family Education Rights and Privacy Act is undergoing an overhaul. Part of that overhsaul is to strengthen privacy protections for student data.
The Internet Association opposes the current proposal because:
Illinois Governor Rauner vetoed a data security bill this week.
The bill would have extended notification requirements to data breaches involving medical, health insurance, biometric, consumer marketing, and geolocation information.
The Governor stated that the bill established ““duplicative and burdensome requirements.”
This week, the 3rd Court of Appeals upheld an enforcement action against Wyndham for a series of data breaches that exposed the credit card data of 600,000 customers.
The ruling solidies the FTC’s enforcement actions. This year alone there have been more than 90 reported data security incidents.
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Add the Department of Defense to the long list of state, local and federal agencies increasing data security requirements for contractors. Procurement beware, its time to get tech savvy.
Local governments colelct volumes of data from infrastructure such as:
The data security risks:
In the political hot spot that is Denton County, Congressman Burgess noted the importance of bringing all stakeholders together on data security legislation by saying,
“I wanted to take an opportunity to hear from people who are working in the research area and the private sector and pull everyone together in a room for the morning and hear what the state of the industry is, and where they thought we might do things to improve it,” said Burgess, R-Lewisville.
The last few weeks have cemented a growing trend of activist hackers. Examples from the last year:
Expect to see more moves into the realm of politics, social issues, and corporate interests.
Only a few States prohibit kids’ personal information from being shared by schools with third party vendors, like marketers.
States working to protect student data through legislation or regulation:
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