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Federal employees this week filed suit over the June 4th federal data breach. The breach is said to the largest in government history, and allegedly the result of Chinese hackers seeking super secret spy information.
The crux of the lawsuit is something all corporations should pay heed to as its the same argument made by plaintiffs in Target and HomeDepot breaches too- how much knowledge did the government have about potential breaches and did the government fail to act? As for the feds,…
Data Security from student data to retail data to contracts to clean up data breaches is big business. The EU is often seen as taking a stronger approach to data protection predicts it will be big business at the tune of 415 Billion Euros a year.
Psst- a Euro is more valuable than a US Dollar.
Will Congress pass a national data security bill after the massive federal employee data breach. Odds are not high. There is a higher liklihood that next week there will be a new food trailer opening in Austin.
What does this mean? States will pass stronger data security bills from everything from retailers to public education contractors to health care data.
Protecting citizen data from the prying eyes of the government, hackers, and neighbors is the rally cry of everyone from Rand Paul to the Wyoming Legislature.
Wyoming’s Task Force on Digital Information will recommend whether the Legislature should move forward with its constitutional amendment again in 2016.
In 2015, the constitutional amendment ran into hurdles when legislators realized that protecting privacy might make a mess of open records.
To head this disaster off at the pass,…
One of Governor Abbott’s line item vetoes struck $5,000,000 in funding for University of Texas Center for Identity. The Center seeks to limit impact of data security breaches.
The Governor’s rational: “If The Center þr ldentíty is a príority, the University may use íts appropriationfor ínstitutional enhancement, leverage public-private partnerships, or allocate other resources þr this purpose. “
The federal employee data breach this week, triggered an emergency contract of $20+million to provide credit monitoring services.
It’s a common response to offer these services. The Texas Comptroller did the same a few years ago when state employee records were breached/exposed.
The techies say credit monitoring is only part of the solution when a person’s data is breached. Other parts to the solution are:
A federal judge in Los Angeles Monday refused to throw out legal claims that Sony was negligent in maintaining adequate data security.
Refresher: the Sony data hack led to the release of:
4.1 million current and former federal employees had their information exposed in a federal government data hack. California’s Department of Technology regulates data security.
The California Department of Technology reports 204 data breaches in 2014 among state agencies.
State cybersecurity jobs are notoriously tough to fill. The private sector pays better and state hiring moves at a glacial pace. As a result, data security is often outsourced which opens the data up to a…
Rand Paul has filabuster against the Patriot Act and has outspoken opinions on NSA data collection.
His opinions are echoed by Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders.
Factor in the recent federal government employee data breach and Hillary Clinton’s Department of State email, and data security and data privacy will play a key role in upcoming elections.