Not a day goes by that we don’t see a headline about hackers. COVID increased the importance of Chief Information Officers from hacking prevention to solid disease trackers. COVID highlighted a big problem in access to technology when working from home and school from home didn’t work when there was no broadband access. Tech companies admitted […]
Monthly Archives: December 2020
Phoenix Partnership to Close Digital Divide in the City
Phoenix is partnering with schools, technology companies and other city agencies to close the digital divide. The sequential goals Phoenix is establishing: expanded access to connectivity to the entire 250-square-mile Phoenix Union High School District Expand to all school districts in Phoenix State Tech | How Cities Are Forging Partnerships to Close the Digital Divide
How San Antonio is Closing Broadband Gap
COVID highlighted the disparity in access to broadband in San Antonio. What data did San Antonio look to solve the disparity? San Antonio created an “Equity Atlas” that “visualizes the aggregated education level, income and primary language of different census tracts in the city,” What did San Antonio discover? The broadband divide starts to close […]
Facial Recognition Software as a Veto Negotiation
Massachusetts Governor has returned a law enforcement reform bill to the Legislature asking it to remove a ban on facial recognition software. Tech Crunch | Massachusetts governor won’t sign police reform bill with facial recognition ban
COVID. What do contact tracing participation rates look like?
In New Jersey, 74% of COVID positive persons will not cooperate. New Jersey has 30 contact tracers for every 100,000 persons. NJ.com | N.J.’s big hangup in coronavirus fight gets worse. Contact tracers find 74% unwilling to cooperate.
+1 City Bans Use of Facial Recognition Software.
Continuing Black Lives Matter reforms, Madison, Wisconsin voted to ban the use of facial recognition software by city agencies. The reasons offered for opposing the use of facial recognition software: unreliable faulty would worsen the racial disparities The exception that allows use of facial recognition software: to identify and locate “victims of human trafficking, child […]
US Supreme Court & Data Privacy. Employers & Unauthorized Access
In Van Buren v. U.S. the question is whether unauthorized use of a law enforcement database by a law enforcement officer, who was authorized to the use the database, but not for this search, is that sanctionable? Why does this matter? Did you ever check your realreal bids at the office? Or run a quick […]
COVID Broadband. Where should it go? National Governors Association
The National Governors Association has a new study about locating new broadband. The nuts & bolts: The FCC collects broadband access data, but says it is imperfect Up to 42 million could be underserved by broadband Suggests a program in North Carolina was a good way to map broadband access. North Carolina stakeholders included state […]
Bill to Develop EV Charger Data
The legislation: HR 8807 (116th Congress) What will HR 8807 do? Create a $10M grant program for local governments and utilities To determine where to locate EV charging stations What information will the data help solve? data on travel patterns and regional commutes data to address and quell range anxiety produce a map “identifying concentrations […]
COVID Data. Health Data Audits
Which legislature is calling on health care data audits? Pennsylvania How will this work? The Legislature’s House Budget and Finance Committee will audit data maintained by the Health Department to identify anomalies in its reporting What: HR 1087 (2020 | PA) Why? What was the Legislature reacting to? Discrepancy between the number of COVID-19-related deaths […]