Category Archives: law enforcement

Lege Tren: Congressman wants to Preempt State Laws Barring Encrypted Devices

What do the feds want to stop the state legislatures from doing? barring the manufacture and sale of unbreakably encrypted smartphones

Why does this matter? California and New York have pending legislation to bar the manufacturing and sale of unbreakably encrypted smartphones.

Why would the state want to prevent unbreakably encrypted smnartphones? Law enforcement wants access to smart phone data.

What groups are involved in this policy fight? tech companies v. law enforcement

The…

Lege Trend: Data Encryption Bans. 4 Bits of Informed Intel.

  • Which states have pending legislation to penalize fully encrypted cell phones? California & New York
  • What fine is being imposed under these bills? $2500
  • What’s the goal of these encryption bans?
    • help law enforcement better combat human trafficking and other serious criminal activities that are being conducted over hidden encrypted networks and locked devices.
  • What groups oppose these encryption penalties?  The tech and privacy community

The Hill | Calif. bill would ban fully…

INTERIM. Home of the Ducks is now Home of Data Security. 5 Bits of Informed Intel from a new Data Security State Law.

  • data breach defined in new Orgegon law as:
    • “an unauthorized acquisition of computerized data that materially compromises the security, confidentiality or integrity of personal information that a person maintains.”
  • personal information that triggers the notification statute
    • ​Social Security number;
    • Driver license number or state identification card number issued by the Department of Transportation;
    • Passport number or other United States issued identification number;…

Trend: Police Officer Body Cameras Data Storage and Data Safety. Top 3 Concerns for 1 State.

Maryland’s concerns over data storage and security for police body cameras include:

  • Price tag to store the data is prohibitively expensive
  • The data costs have stopped police departments from using body cameras
  • The storage retention policies differ for the recordings.
    • General 90 day retention
    • If there is an ongoing investigation data retention is for the length of the investigation
    • any video considered evidence must be maintained for 4 years

Record Journal | Legislature expected…

Library Data. Do Cities Protect it? Do Universities? 3 Points from the Pro-Delete User Records Side.

  • The City University of new York began purging data because it believes libraries should only keep information users want
  • American Library Association doesn’t believe you are what you read and opposes law enforcement use of library records.
  • The  Library Freedom Project supports protecting web searches on public computers, encouraging libraries to operte exit nodes and Tor, a difficult to trace web browser

The Guardian | You are not what you read: librarians purge user data to protect…

Data Security Meets Sharing Economy Meets Regulatory Enforcement Powers

Which state has an agency enforcement action against the sharing economy? New York’s Attorney General

Which part of the sharing economy is the NY Attorney General looking into? Ride Share

What’s the issue? Buzzfeed reported that company execuitves had access to rider locations through the ride share app

Let’s get to know what could happen in Texas, and look at what enforcement deal was worked out in NY. The settlement included:

  • a 20K fine
  • requiring ride share entity to adopt a data…

Lege Trend: Exempt Government and Telecoms from Data Security Legislation

Australia is re-writing its data security laws. A draft proposal includes exemptions from notification requirements for governmental entities and telecommunications companies. 

Australia’s Draft Data Security Legislation 

The Guardian | Telcos and security agencies exempted from data breach rules in draft bill

Data Security Bills Expedited Due to Terrorism

A push in the UK is campaigning to move forward with expedited data security legislation to secure networks in light of the November 13, 2015 terrorism in Paris. 

Why is this relevant?

  • Because legislation passed under the threat of security issues can bring in corporate client data security mandates
  • And, can include mandates for the world’s most valuable data security records– health care records.

Press Association | Lord Carlile wants communications data legislation ‘expedited’

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

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…