Monthly Archives: February 2019

Lege TREND. Procurement TREND. State Officials Push Back Against State Contract Monitoring Software. 3 Bits Informed Intel.

What legislative provisions are getting push back from state data officials? require government contractors to install monitoring software

Is there a national group pushing back on this lobbying effort? National Association of State Chief Information Officers issued a statement opposing the bills

What is the opposition? It puts citizen information at risk

How many states have seen this language? 23

State Scoop | Nationwide lobbying push for contractor monitoring software alarms state CIOs

Lege TREND. Cleaning Up a Data Privacy Bill in the Golden State. 2 Lessons.

California is revising its first in the nation data protection bill by:

  • include passport and government ID numbers as data that trigger notification after a data breach
  • include biometric data, fingerprints, and iris and facial recognition scans, as data that trigger notification after a data breach

Tech Crunch | California to close data breach notification loopholes under new law

AB 1130 (CA | 2019)

Study. States. Blockchain Legislation. Which are Bullish? Which are Unaware?

A 2018 Brookings study categorizes state blockchain legislation and regulation.

States Recognizing Innovation Potential:

  • Illinois
  • Arizona

States Actively Engaged:

  • Pennsylvanai
  • New York
  • Florida
  • Virigina
  • Utah
  • Wisconsin

States that are orgnaized:

  • Wyoming
  • Washington

States that are appreciative:

  • California
  • Colorado
  • Oklahoma
  • Kansas

States that are reactionary:

  • Texas
  • Missouri
  • Illinois
  • Ohio

States that are unaware:

  • Arkansas
  • Mississippi
  • Minnesota
  • oregon
  • idaho

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Lege TREND. Transparency TREND. State Land Use Database. Who is using state land?

Hawaii’s Public Land Trust Information System allows for searchable information such as:

  • tenants on state lands and in state buildings

  • rent paid for state land and buildings

  • fees for encroaching on public property

  • revenue from camping and wedding or event rentals

pltis.hawaii.gov

Government Technology | Hawaii Launches State Land Use Database

 

 

Lege TREND. Property Rights in Bitcoin. Read the Bill.

SF 0125 (WY | 2019) will allow crypto currency to have property rights outside third party storage.

What does this mean?

  •  Wyoming is the 1st US state to allow private ownership of cryptocurrency
  • Wyoming hopes blockchain and cyrptocurrency then partake in WY courts, business registrations
  • Wyoming becomes the Delaware or Nevada of cryptocurrency, as Deleware and Nevada are for traditional corporate filings

Bitcoinist | WYOMING BECOMES FIRST STATE TO GIVE BITCOIN OWNERS FULL PROPERTY RIGHTS

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Lege TREND. Election Hacking. Low Rates of Voting in a Specific Statewide Race.

Georgia uses exclusively paperless ballots. The November 2018 election produced high numbers of people not voting for Lt. Governor.

A lawsuit seeks to invalidate that race due to the low voting numbers in that specific race and calling for forensic examination of the electronic voting machines.

Politico | Another Georgia voting kerfuffle

Lege TREND. New Kid on the Block. Business Advocating for Data Privacy Fundamental Right.

Cisco is asking governmetns around the world to make data privacy a fundamental right.

The talking points:

  • Security: Assign responsibility to protect the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resiliency of data;
  • Transparency: Explain how data is collected, used, transferred, and disclosed;
  • Accountability: Ensure governance for data under the entity’s stewardship, including a data protection team, applying a risk-based approach;
  • Innovation: Recognise multi-stakeholder-driven…