Data Security Pops Up in Self Driving Car Regulations. The Key Intel:

What’s missing from self driving car regulations? Assurances that governmental agencies aren’t trying to gather data.

What type of data could be collected about a self driving car?

  • identifying information including:
    • names,
    • phone numbers
    • credit card info
    • usage data
    • real-time and historic geolocation data

The legislative/policy/regulatory buzz word? Privacy.

Tech Crunch | Lyft wants more explicit protection of consumer data from NHTSA on self-driving

Business Trend. Health care and Tech. By 2018, 70% of health care will be tech driven. 7 Upcoming trends to be regulated

Apple is poised to enter health care in these 7 ways:

  • clinical trial partnership with Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital
  • precision medicine initiative with Scripps Translational Science Institute
  • partnered with IBM, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic on cognitive computing platform called Watson Health Cloud
    • offering  tailored data analytics services to clinicians
  • bought a health care tech firm to advance interoperability by aggregating health data into a single digital patient…

Trend. Business helps Cities Build Data.

Business gather and analyze data to make business decisions. Some businesses are embracing philanthropy and sharing that data with cities.

Examples of cities using data to improve public service:

  •  New York City created the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics
  • Chicago has Array of Things, a sensor system to gather and collect data
  • Boston and Uber are partnering to utilize Uber data to help Boston improve  congestion and community planning

Governing | How Companies Can Help Cities Close…

9 out of 10 Attorneys Agree. Not Good News for Health Care Business.

Health care attorneys agree that health care industry is at a higher risk for cyber crime. Here’s the data to support it:

  • 88% of ransomeware targets are health care entities
  • 84% of health care attorneys have been involved with clients who must dtermine issues like notification after a breach and adopting internal cyber security controls.

It must be bad if attorneys are agreeing with each other. 

Health Care Dive | Healthcare attorneys: Industry is at higher risk of cybercrime than others