Category Archives: activism

TREND. Data Breach + State Treasurers = Calls for Business Leadership Changes.

State Treasurers from RI, PA and IL and New York City are backing Trillium Asset Management in calling for Zuckerberg to step down from facebook over security breaches and misuse of the platform by foreign agents.

Governing | States and New York City Urge Mark Zuckerberg to Give Up Facebook Chairman Role

 

Business TREND. Cyber version of the Red Cross? WHAT. HOW. WHY.

What is being proposed? an international organization modeled after the International Committee of the Red Cross that would help in cyber emergencies

How would this work? provide assistance and relief to vulnerable citizens and enterprises affected by serious cyberattacks

Why? Its based on work by tech companies including:

  • November 2017 a UN speech on cyber security y Brad Smith, Microsoft´s President and Chief Legal Officer
  • Spring 2018 Microsoft initiated the Cybersecurity Tech Accord
  • Fall…

Campaign TREND. Tea Party Call Lists. Pro Gun Protest Agendas and Scripts unprotected data.

What data was exposed? Tea Party Patriots campaign materials, call lists, guidelines for national student led pro-2nd amendment protests, including toolkits for protests

How was it exposed? Left unpassword protected on an Amazon S3 storage bucket

Who found it?UpGuard, a California-based “cyber resiliency” firm renowned for locating confidential records inadvertently exposed online

Gizmodo | Tea Party Group Leaks Call Lists, Guides for Staging Pro-Gun ‘Student-Led’ High School Protests

Lege TREND. Data Miner Regulations. Legislation proposal.

How a state can legislatively protect its residents from data miners:

  • apply laws not only to 3rd party data miners but also 1st party data miners that do have a direct relationship with consumers such as:
    • retailers
    • social media companies

Also, what is a data miner? an entity or person that collects and sells personal information from consumers with whom the broker has no direct relationship

 

Electronic Fronteir Foundation | Vermont’s New Data Privacy Law

3 Reasons US Chamber Opposes State Data Privacy law. WHAT? WHY?

WHAT: The US Chamber of Commerce opposes California’s Consumer Privacy Act and wants the federal government to preempt state law

WHAT legislative specifics do they want?

  • Preemption of state data protection laws
  • Require concrete harm before a lawsuit
  • Preclude all class action lawsuits
  •  

WHY? 

  • avoid a disparate patchwork of data privacy rules
  • without preemption, companies have to choose the strictist law to comply with and that is California’s consumer privacy act

MARTECH | US Chamber of…

Lege Trend. An internet bill of rights? Hello all tech & telecom: this one is for you. Marketing and data limits.

Activists are promoting an Internet bIll of Rights, the kind of bill state legislatures love. What would it do?

  • Keeping your “browsing history” private
    • ​Except: fraud or potential crimes  
  • Full disclosure when being monitored, and the right to opt out
  • Preserving the privacy of your social media accounts.
  • Ownership of your personal, digital content
  • Notification of injurious data breaches
  • Fair play on social media platforms and/or internet providers
  • Protecting children on social media

    • …

Local TREND. Cities Ending Data Sharing Arrangements with Federal Government.

Philadelphia terminated its data sharing agreement with ICE.

What do supports say?

  • Federal Courts agree with the constitutional concerns of not providing basic, humane treatment of immigrants
  • concerned that ICE was using the database “in inappropriate ways” 
  • Distrust in immigrant communities harsm law enforcement’s ability to keep the city safe

Governing | A Major City Ends Data-Sharing Contract With ICE