Category Archives: data privacy

Lege TREND. Criminalize Online Snooping. Read 3 Bill Highlights. Read 3 Opposition Highlights.

The Online Snooping Bill:

  • Georgia SB 315 (2018) 
  • Republican State Senator
  • unauthorized computer acess that didn’t involve taking data would result in a misdeamnor of a high and aggrevated nature

 

Opposition:

  • criminalizes lying on a dating profile
  • criminalizes violations of user agreements
  • criminalizes any use of a work computer for personal use like checking the Falcons score

Washington Post | Sweeping Georgia cybercrime bill would target ‘snoopers’

Equifax Fix TREND. The different route a Plains State Takes. 3 Key Points from the Bill.

Nebraska Legislature is considering LB 757  that will:

  • Applies data security requires people and businesses that owns, licenses or maintains data of Nebraska residents
  • Requires a data security standard of “reasonable security procedures and practices:
  • Ties the state legislation to  Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 

How does this differ from other state approaches?

  • Other states have focused on free credit freezes and free credit report…

9 Parts. North Carolina Data Security Bill. Post-Equifax.

The state Attorney General and a State Representative are promoting an forthcoming North Carolina bill, the Act to Strengthen Identity Theft Protections.

Here’s what the bill will do:

  • Include ransomware in definition of data breach
  • Protect more information by creating a duty for businesses to have reasonable data security standards, and include insurance/medical information in the data breach notification law
  • Quicker consumer notification.  15 day time limit to notify the consumer & the…

Lege TREND. 6 Standard Data Protocol For all State Data. Is the South leading the way in protecting personal information?

Mississippi is considering statewide standards for data that will:

  • how to long to store personal data
  • how to dispose of personal data
  • what personal data can be disposed of
  • how to store personal data
  • apply to all state entities that have personal data in their possession
  • what a state agency, Department of Archives and History, needs to store data in perpetuity

What prompted this legislative action by Mississippi?

  • A 2013 breach of health care data at the Univeristy of Mississippi
  • A…

12 TEXAS INTERIM CHARGES. DATA SECURITY. 1 Select Committee.

House Committee on Appropriations 

#5  Trends in data security & cost savings Monitor the ongoing implementation of Article IX, Sec. 9.13 of the General Appropriations Act and determine if state agencies are realizing cost savings and/or security enhancements in state operations related to cybersecurity, information technology, and cloud computing. Study trends in cloud computing and IT delivery services, and identify whether additional cost efficiencies, economies of scale, or IT…

Is Cyber Security the Philanthropic Trend du jour?

Recent cyber security philanthropic gifts:

  • creating a cybersecurity research center aimed at African American students in underserved communities
  •  $30 million in gifts to fund the construction of the Madison Cyber Labs as well as scholarships for students and support for additional faculty and staff at Dakota State University
  • Harvard, which received a $15 million gift from Robert and Renee Belfer to establish the Cyber Security Project
  • Amherst, which netted a $15 commitment from MassMutual…

1st State. Public Private Partnership Task Force Ready for Cyber Attack. 6 points informed:intel.

Michigan created a volunteer public private task force to step in at a moment’s notice to resolve a cyber attack on state systems.

What is the group called? Michigan Cyber Civilian Corps, MiC3

Has Michigan Cyber Civilian Corps, MiC3 been deployed? No

How does it function? Like a volunteer fire department

Who has volunteered? cybersecurity experts from government, education and private industry

Has any other state done this? No. 

Governing | Michigan’s Volunteer-Based Cybersecurity…

Tech Lobby Spending Up. Way Up. 10 Top Issues Tech wants covered by government affairs teams. Its not all data centers.

2017 Q2 reflects record spedning by tech giants. 

The 10 top issues tech wants elected officials and policymakers to know:

  • cloud computing
  • data centers
  • renewable energy taxes
  • data protection
  • data encryption
  •  cross-border data flows
  • critical infrastructure protection
  • transaction security
  • government procurement
  • IT modernization

Data Center Dynamics | Tech, data center firms increase US lobbying spend