Category Archives: legislative trend

Bill Requires an Agency to Audit Other Agency Data Security Standards. Procurement Opportunity. Read the Bill.

H.R. 1224 (115th Congress) requires a 6 point audit of federal agency data security:

  • a description of staffing plans
  • workforce capabilities
  • methods of conducting such audits
  • coordination with agencies to support such audits
  • expected timeframe for the completion of the audits
  • other relevant information

 

+1 Southern State. Free Credit Report Freezes & Thaws. Read the Bills & the loyal opposition.

Florida legislature is considering SB 1302 and HB 953  that will end fees for freezing or unfreezing a credit report.

The bills make no other changes to credit reporting entities.

The opposition, the “Consumer Data Industry Association,” opposes bills that removes all fees from credit freezes.

Palm Beach Post | Florida considers ending fee to freeze credit as Equifax leads gripes

 

By the Numbers Tech Spending in Lobbying, Legislative & Regulatory Affairs.

2017 Congressional spending by tech companies:

  • Google spent $18 million (up from $15.4 million)
  • Facebook spent $11.6 million (up from $8.7 million)
  • Twitter  spent $561,000  (down from $680,000) 
  • Amazon spent $12.8 million  ( up from  $11 million)
  • Apple spent $7.1 million (up from $4.6 million)
  •  Netflix spent  $800,000 (same amount from 2016)
  • NCTA – The Internet & Television Association: $12.8 million  (down from $13.3 million)

The Hill | As Tech Industry Boosts Lobbying Spending, Showbiz…

FTC Study identifies 4 cybersecurity issues with EV, Self Driving Cars, Connected Cars

This month the Federal Trade Commission released a paper on cybersecurity issues with conencted cars.

4 Points from the FTC paper:

  • lots of information is gathered and shared, the information must be protected
  • can a vehicle’s safety controlled fuctions be segregated from other functions for public safety?
  • how to best update cars when a new vulnerability is discovered?
  • how to set a base line security standard for connected cars

Lege Trend. BLOCKCHAIN meets Legislature. The Future of Data Security Legislation? Read the Bill.

Colorado Legislature is considering SB18-086 that brings together blockchain & data security legislation.

What you need to know:

  • Calls for CO to adopt a distributed ledger
    • this means pieces of the ledger live in different cyber spaces, so a hack of 1 space does not expose all the data
  • How does the bill get to a distributed ledger in Colorado state government?
    • Directs Colorado’s chief information security officer to evaluate the costs and benefits of using distributed ledgers in various…

Lege Trend. Cybersecure Election in the Buckeye State. 3 Key Elements of the bills.

Ohio Legislature is set to consider bills to strengthen cybersecurity for their election system by:

  • Establishing a Cybersecurity director within the Secretary of State administration
    • the Director would be responsible for recommendations to keep elections secure
  • Establishing a cyber-security advisory council appointed by the Secretary of State and made up of:
    • business community
    • technology community
    • law enforcement
    • voting advocates
    •  elections officials from both political parties

    • …

Lege TREND. +1 State. Bipartisan Data Security Bill Post-Equifax. 4 Requirements.

California’s SB 823 (2018)  requires:

  • Free credit card freezes and credit freeze lifts
  • Allowing all credit reporting agencies to freeze credit by initiaiting a request with 1 credit reporting agency
  • Allowing for electronic freezes and lifts

4 States currently allow for free credit freezes and freeze lifts:

  •  Indiana
  • Maine
  • North Carolina
  • South Carolina

Lege Trend. 8 States. Net neutrality bills.

The states looking to add net nuetrality requirements: North Carolina, Illinois, California, New York, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Rhode Island and Washington

4 policy goals of net nuetrality:

  •  A level playing field for all online services that prohibits internet providers to block or slow down sites or online services
  •  Ensure consumers find the content of the choice
  • Maintain broad access to online services and information
  • Protect businesses, large and small, from having to pay fees to reach…

Lege Trend. New Regulatory Division for Data Security. 5 Key Details to Draft one for your State.

The new federal legislation, The Data Breach Prevention and Compensation Act, would:

  • Create a new cybersecurity office within the Federal Trade Commission
  • Incentivize data security by imposing mandatory fines on credit reporting agencies with flawed security
  • Annual inspections by the FTC of credit reporting agencies
  • Fines would be divided to:
    • 50% to the consumers affected
    • 50% to the FTC to fund inspections and cybersecurity research
  • Credit reporting agencies would have to report to…