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Lege TREND. State Contracting. Coalition Opposes Contracts with Software Requirements. 3 Key Points.

The Coalition: Organizations representing accountants, techNet, AGC, engineers and technology professionals, + ALEC. Separate opposition stems from National Association of Chief Information Officers

The coalition opposes: state legislative efforts to require contracts install monitoring software

What sparked this? 30 states have a legislative push by TransparentBusiness that claims to ahve software that stops contractors from over-billing their clients

State Scoop | Industry groups urge…

Lege TREND. State Legislation. Crypto Currency for Sales Tax Payments

California’s AB 953 (CA | 2019) would permit legal cannabis businesses to pay state taxes using cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Magazine | Blockchain Advocacy Coalition Sponsors Bill to Allow Crypto for Legal Cannabis Tax

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. 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…

2019 Student Data Security State Standings. Legislative Trends.

What entity is ranking states on student data protection? Parent Coalition for Student Privacy

Best State for student Data Protection? Colorado with a B

Worst states for student data protection? 11 way tie with Fs for Alabama, Alaska, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, Vermont, Wisconsin

The populous states?

California C
New York B-
Illinois C+
Texas D+
Florida D+
Pennsylvania D-

Lingering Education Data Security Issue for all…

Lege TREND. Fake Constituent Written Suport.

The allegations of fake constitutent support:

Comments to the FCC over net nuetrality rules
Of 20 million comments, almost 50% were provided without consent

The investigations:

FBI issuing subpoenas
New York Attorney General with support of Attorneys General of Massachusettes and the District of Columbia

Targets of the subpoenas:

14 organizations
11 of which are either politically conservative or related to the telecommunications industry and opposed net neutrality, and three of which…

Lege TREND. Anatomy of a Public Private Hacking Cooperation Bill.

Is this bipartisan? Yes, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H.

What’s the bill called? The Public-Private Cybersecurity Cooperation Act

What would it do? Creates a vulnerability disclosure program, crafted by the Department of Homeland Securty, to allow hackers to report problems to the proper authorities without being prosecuted

S3707 (115th Congress)

NextGov | Senators Introduce Bill to Let Hackers Reports Bugs to DHS

1 Road Block for Anti-Hacker State Legislation

States have taken different approaches to how to regulate hacking by research, or white hat hackers, who identify and report data security vulnerabilities.

An example of this is a researcher who discovered in 2017 that USPS had left open all user information of the usps.gov website. There was no response from USPS, and the breach was disclosed this week.

Tech Crunch | U.S. Postal Service Data Breach Exposes Data of 60M Customers