Hawaii joins the ranks of states implmenting a statewide Data Officer position to oversee data security.
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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
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.
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…
Lege TREND. Public Private Cyber WorkForce Exchange
WHAT: Cyber Security Exchange Act,”
Bipartisan? Yes, Senators Thune (R) & Klobuchar (D)
How does the Cyber security Exchange work?
- create an exchange program between the federal government and private firms
- to bring more cybersecurity expertise to the federal workforce
- The program would allow for a 2 year tours of duty with the federal government
The Hill | Bipartisan bill would create public-private cyber workforce exchange
Anatomy of Lobbying FOR and AGAINST Data Privacy Legislation
After passing firs tin the nationa data privacy protection, to a GDPR level, here’s a roadmap of the supporters and opponents :
- Against/Changing the state level GDPR-like standards:
- California Chamber of Commerce
- $2.2 million coalition that tried to scuttle the ballot initiative
- $1.6 million in lobbying
- tech-backed Internet Association
- $200,000 on lobbying
- California Chamber of Commerce
- For the state level GDPR-standards:
- Common Sense Media
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Consumer advocates
Why…
Lege TREND. New Penalties for Companies & Executives. Visions of Orange & Stripes.
Jail time is being added to the list of potential penalties in data breaches. Under the proposal the FTC could impose fines on companies and could also impose criminal penalties on executives.
The impetus for this bill? Facebook
Government Technology | Oregon’s Wyden Pitches Jail Time for Breaches
Lege TREND. Requiring Warrants for Mobile Phone Data.
Utah’s HB 57 (UT | 2019) would require a warrant before police can access data shared with an app or third party, like cloud storage.
Supporters say:
- Applies the rules to paper to the digital world. If it was on paper, would a warrant be required should be the standard.
- Based on language in a constitutional amendment to protect digital privacy passed in Missouri in 2014.
Lege Trend. +1 State Broad Data Privacy Legislation
Washington State is considering SB 5376 and HB 1854 (WA | 2019) will:
- Consumer Access to data collected on them
- Consumers can delete data collected on them
- Consumers can correct their data
- Consumers can restrict access to their data
- Consumers can get a copy of their data
- Consumers can object to their data for marketing
- No profiling based on data
- Comapnies collecting data have 30 days to respond to consumer requests, with an extention of an additional 60 days for voluminous requests
The…
Regulatory TREND. State Agency Data Security Requirements for Student DATA. Civil Liability Education Vendors.
New York Department of Education is proposing new rules that will:
- Parent’s Bill of Rights applicable to 3rd party vendors and setting standards on disclosing student data
- The National Institute for Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (“NIST CSF”)
- Annual training for school district employees
- A Data Protection Officer in every school
- Notice of a school data breach must be given to the Department of Education within 10 days
- Civil Penalties that accrue per individual affected…