Welcome to the Future!
A lawyer for Google says new laws are needed to cover data stored on the cloud for these reasons:
The Recorder | Google Lawyer Says New Laws Needed to Govern Cloud Data
Who was targeted by hackers? Backers of Mexico’s soda tax
The hack: text messages that family members had died, with funeral information. Dark, dark stuff.
It’s dark hacktivism in repsonse to activism. Indeed there are companies that sell services in these dark arts.
NY Times | Spyware’s Odd Targets: Backers of Mexico’s Soda Tax
The Legislature: Congress
The data protection bill: Email Privacy Act to update a 1986 law on email
Where is the bill? It passed the House and is moving to the Senate
What’s the fundamental change in the Email Privacy Act? To universally require warrants for emails stored on 3rd party servers
Is this in line with industry standards? Yes, Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Verizon require warrants before they release emails stored on their servers
State: California
Who pays for ID Protection when a private corportation has a data breach? The corporation
Who currently pays for ID protection when a locla government has a data breach? The person whose data was hacked
Is there a bill to make local governments pay for ID protection when a hack occurs? Yes, California Assembly Bill 241
Government Technology | When a Data Breach Happens, Will California Pay for Protection?
Long gone are the days when data breach notifications only applied to retailers, or so says New Mexico.
The Bill: House Bill 15 (2017) The Data Breach Notification Act
What it does:
KOB 4 | Lawmaker sponsors data breach notification bill
The Company: Vizio
The privacy breach: installed software in televisions that recorded consumers tv habits
The regulatory enforcement: Federal Trade Commission and the New Jersey Attorney General
The fine: $2.2 million + must delete customer data by March
Engadget | Vizio tracked and sold your TV viewing habits without consent (updated)
the hospital: Children’s Medical Center of Dallas
the data security charge: years of noncompliance with HIPAA rules and after failing to request a hearing on the penalty. Since 2010 the hospital used unencrypted devices to store HIPAA protected info
the regulator: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights
the fine: $3.2 million civil money penalty
Add Nevada to the list of states moving to create an Office of Cyber Defense. Governor Sandoval proposes funding it with $3.5 million.
The Office of Syber Defense will be within the Nevada Department of Public Safety and will offer assistance to local government agencies and private industry.
Las Vegas Review Journal | Marijuana, cybersecurity among debates to happen in Nevada Legislature
Where: California
How is cybersecurity impacting education statutes? Requiring instruction on determining truth.
Is this a way to repsond to fake news and election hacking? Yes.
How did they wrap this up in pretty policy words? By requiring instruction in “civic online reasoning” means the ability to judge the credibility and quality of information found on Internet Web sites, including social media.”
Holland- the country, not the city in Michigan, will count all its ballots by hand as a reaction to the possibility of election tampering by hackers.
USA Today | Amid hacking fears, Dutch to use pen, paper for vote