Category Archives: data privacy

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

Lege Trend. Legislation to Regulate Data BROKERS. 5 Point Legislative Plan.

States can enacted legislation to address Data Broikers by:

  • impose a fiduciary duty towards the consumers whose data they harvest and monetize
  • establish a government office to assist the victims of data breaches
  • compensation for their financial & non-financial injuries 
  • require disclosures by data brokers like:
    •  consumer’s “right to know” what personal information a data broker has gathered
    •  how the broker obtained it
    • to whom they sold it
  •  require consumer consent for data…

LegeTREND. Consequence of state legislature enacted an internet of things security bill to protect data privacy

The TRUMP administration sued California when Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 327 (2018 | CA). 

What is the federal government telling the state?

  • data privacy is federal jurisdiction because it impacts interstate commerce
  • the FCC chair says the  “law prohibits many free-data plans”

Governing | Trump Administration Sues California After Governor Signs Net Neutrality Protections

 

REFRESHING OUR RECOLLECTION  |  informed:intel September 20, 2018:

California’s internet of things law, SB 327…

Lege TREND. Centralize State Cybersecurity Decisions.

State: Pennsylvania

The legislation: HB32 (PA | 2018)

How is the centralization of data security decisions structured?

  • create a Cybersecurity Innovation and Excellence Commission
  • The Commission will be comprised of:
    • lawmakers
    • government officials such as:
      • Department of Community and Economic Development
      • Department of Labor and Industry
      •  Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency
    • outside experts 
  • The goal is to stay ahead of cybersecurity developments by:
    • coordinate…

Campaign Trend. Devices and Campaigns. What's preferred?

Campaign entity: The DNC

The data device policy:  Eliminate Android, espcially ZTE devices. Retain iphones.

Is there a campaign officer for security? Yes, chief information security officer, the former chief information security officer at Yahoo

Forbes | Democrat Cyber Defenders Are Purging Androids In Favor Of iPhones

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…

3 Ways State Attorneys General Control Data Security Policy

  • Create policy by litigating
    • ex: suits to support online privacy could be the new tobacco lawsuit
  • Blocking Federal Policies
    • Repulican Attorneys General sued Obama Administration 46 times in 8 years
    • Democratic Attornesy General have sued the Trump Administration 35 times in year 1
  • Crafting policy by managing State-level settlements delivering big headlines and fast payouts
    • ex: Equifax settlements

Forbes | How state attorneys general are driving tech policy

5 States leading the way on Data Security Legislation. Medical Data. Retail Data. Data Businesses. All Businesses.

States are enacting more quickly and fully than the federal government on data security regulation. Here’s a look at the 5 states leading the way:

Regulatory Trend. Cybersecurity Integration Center Alerts Agencies to Wildfires too. WHERE. WHAT. HOW.

WHERE: California

WHAT: The information sharing at the California Cybersecurity Integration Center alerted agencies along I-5 to a wildfire before the wildfire was phoned in

HOW: the Cybersecurity Inegration Center uses electronic scrapes of twitter, and a tweet started the wildfire information sharing through the agency

Cybersecurity Integration Center was created by Executive Order in 2015. 

Route 50 | How California Is Improving Cyber Threat Information Sharing