Author Archives: Tessa Zavala

The Texas Blockchain Council is working to make a Blockchain Caucus a reality in Texas. The Texas Blockchain Council showed Texas Secretary of State a blockchain technology to authenticate government records. The legislative goals: legislation to update the state’s Uniform Commercial Code legislation to enable broader blockchain infrastructure NTX Inno | Texas Blockchain Council unveils […]

Hawaii Health Department has launched AlohaSafe Alert app. What does AlohaSafe Alert app do? Will alert app users if they’ve been in contact with anyone who is positive Relies on Bluetooth technology that is said to better protect personal data Will supplement contact tracing by the Hawaii Department of Health What will count as exposure […]

Data drives health care innovation, but do regulations and laws protect that data? How did COVID drive awareness to health care data privacy? COVID highlighted that the collection, use, sharing and further processing of data can help limit the spread of the virus  Could blockchain help? It would anonymize health care data Emerging Europe | […]

What government is considering a State Crypto Currency? Sweden What are Swedish banker concerns? Sweden is already a mostly digital, or cashless e-krona users can bypass middlemen, private banks, and connect directly to the Central Bank Commercial banks would become dependent on wholesale markets for liquidity the e-krona is set to be traceable, moving the […]

Autonomous vehicles rely on large-scale data collection. From road ways, to traffic laws to average human behavior. Do laws address the data that Autonomous vehicles need? Not so much What should AV laws address? Has there been consent to collect the data? Is express consent required? What data is collected? is it all defined as […]

The State: New York How the facial recognition software ban came to be: AB 6787 (2020 | NY) Is it a permanent ban? No, its a let’s wait until  July 1, 2022 & let’s study it What happens on July 1st 2022? The State Board of Education President upon reviewing a study of the software […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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