Category Archives: data privacy

Jail Contractor. Data Breach. Phone Records. 3 Reform to Follow.

  • Data Recording Limitations. Data breach included recorded attorney-client phone calls.
  • Data Retantion Limitations. If calls are recorded, how long are they to be kept and under which security protocols.
  • Data Protection. Attorney-client recorded calls were shared with prsoecutors.

Think Progress | Prison Phone Company Hit With Massive Data Breach

New Issue: Data Security. Insurance. Indemnification. 3rd Party Contractors.

Indemnification Clauses in Insurance Cybersecurity policies should do 3 things:

  • Be clear which entities are covered, none of this any and all other related entities mumbo jumbo
  • Explicitly state details like whether “indemnity for third parties extends beyond the policy’s expiration date”
  • Be flexible to constantly evolving laws and case law

Business Insurance | Precise policy language needed to cover affiliated businesses

Campaigns. Low Data Security. Liability Risk. 3 Reasons Why.

  • Campaigns have no legal obligation to protect personal information data that they gather.
  • Campaigns have a trove of information from credit cards, answers to personal profile questions, and personal identification
  • Its unclear which agency would regulate and enforce campaign data security

The Hill  How presidential campaigns could be putting your data at risk

76% of IT Decision Makers would Move Data Centers out of the US over Privacy.

Who was surveyed? 1000 IT decision makers across the UK and US

What did 76% say? 76% would “move their organization’s data to another country as a result of privacy concerns”

The privacy concern of businss: government snooping

How do the CEOs feel? 29% have moved data security to the top of the corporate agenda

Where are they moving their data storage? To Switzerland and Canada

The Data Center Journal | Information Exodus: 76% of IT Decision Makers Would Move Their Data to…

Lege Trend: Data Security Bill Passes over Tech Objections. 3 Pros. 3 Opposition Points.

The U.S. Senate passed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act on a vote of 74-21 this week.

Tech Companies continue their opposition. The main bones of contention:

  • Mechanism for sharing of cyber-threat information does not sufficiently protect users’ privacy ”  (Computer & Communications Industry Assoc.)
  • “[ Does not ] appropriately limit the permissible uses of information shared within the government” (Computer & Communications Industry Assoc.)
  • “Privacy-shredding” bill “in…

Federal Cyber Security Bill. 3 Points to Know Now. Which Businesses are on which side?

  • The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act passed the U.S. Senate on Thursday, October 22nd.
  • Major Tech companies (Apple, DropBox) are opposed
  • National Retail Federation support amendment to CISA that offer liability protection for business that share threat data with the FBI and Secret Service, and not just the Department of Homeland Security.

Washington Post | Cybersecurity bill advances in Senate, but hurdles remain

National Retail Federation | Borad based Coalition Supports Cotton…

Millions of Funding for Data Security for Electric Generation, Electric Grids & Oil & Gas.

  • Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium heads the $28.1 effort
  • Consists of 11 national laboratories and universities and is led by the University of Illinois
  • Dartmouth received a $925,000 grant to “improve the protection of the electric grid and oil and natural gas infrastructure from cyber threats”

Concord Monitor | AP | Dartmouth College gets $925K cybersecurity grant

Lege Trend: Model forms for Data Breach Notifications

California amended its data breach notification statutes this year to do 2 things:

1. Expand the definition of what type of information breach requires a notification for information gathered by an automatic license plate reader.

2. Provide a model form for entities that experience a data breach

National Law Review | California Amends Data Breach Notification Statute by Requiring Specific Notification Content and Expanding the Definition of Personal Information 

Drones & Data Storage. A Legislative Trend.

Drones collect data. Data everywhere. Private data. Public Data.

Legislatures and local governments are focused on …How long that data is stored, under what conditions, and under what dislcosure requirements is legislative fodder.

Are these private drones or public drones? Data release and data storage could apply to either. Here’s some of the legislative questions:

  • Are there penalties for a person’s private drone that collects data of someone’s orivate property?
  • How long can law…

Greater Houston Partnership Hosting Cybersecurity Forum. Link between strong cybersecurity & business.

Greater Houston Partnership for the upcoming Cybersecurity Forum: Protecting Your Business Online on Tuesday, October 13.

It’s part of the work of the Partnership’s Cybersecurity Task Force & stresses the import of cyber security to business. 

HAVE QUESTIONS?: Contact Amber Margraves at amargraves@houston.org or 713-844-3651.

Greater Houston Partnership Cybersecurity Forum