Category Archives: legislative trend

Health Care Data Protection Changes from the Feds Will Filter to States

  • Improving Health Information Technology Act (S. 2511)
    • electronic health records interoperability
    • establishing a medical device postmarket surveillance system
    • loyal subscribers will recall the hacking of medical devices
  • Ranking Member Patty Murray’s amendment to S.1878
    • medical device data safety and effectiveness
    • how do we keep consumers aware of medical device data security issues?

Healthcare IT | How Recent Senate HELP Bills Affect Healthcare Data Security

INTERIM. Lege TREND: National Commission on Security and Technology Challenges. 3 Bits Informed Intel.

Data security and new government agency leadership posts and new agencies go hand in hand. 

Pending federal legislation would create the National Commission on Security and Technology Challenges.

Here’s the info you need abou the National Commission on Security and Technology Challenges:

  • its bipartisan: Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) & House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Tex.)
  • required new agency report detailing:
    • benefits…

5 Bits Informed Intel on License Plate Reader Data and Legislative Restrictions. Procurement Doors Closing.

How much data has been gathered by license plate readers in Texas? Estimated 10 million license plate pictures, with locations, collected by month.

What can be done with this stored license plate information?  It can track the location of a vehicle by plotting its sightings by day and time

What’s happening on this legislatively?

  • In 2015, Texas bills preventing license plate recording & collection died
  • Arkansas & Utah prohibit private companies from amassing license plate data…

Lege Trend: Curtail Release of Any and All Student Data to 3rd parties. Bonjour, education vendors.

What happened to spark stronger student data privacy protections? A court allowed for the release of student data to a group of parents who are fighting a court battle over the quality of education for disabled students.

What data do legislators want to prevent schools from releasing?

  • student social security numbers
  • medical histories
  • mental health assessments
  • student disciplinary records

​What is the nobel purpose of the legislative action? Schools collect data that is neither…

INTERIM State Attorney General Releases Data Security Recommendations. 3 Bits Informed Intel.

Which Attorney General office analyzed state data security breaches? California

What is the most popular data to breach?

  • social security numbers
  • credit card information
  • medical information

What recommendations to policymakers emerged?

  • Follow all the 20 controls in the Center for Internet Security’s Critical Security Controls, otherwise your company isn’t offering reasonably data security
  • multi-factor authentication must be available
  • encryption must be standard business…

Business Trend & Lege Trend: Data Security Regulation Impact to Car Manufacturing & Dealers. 3 Keys .

  • Auto Manufacturers are facing data security issues related to connected cars
  • Car Dealers are facing dats security issues related to customer data, the link of that customer data ties to car data
  • This combination that ties customer data privacy to hackable connected cars requires “robust cyber security infrastructure could give his firm competitive advantages against their competitors.”

Computer Business Review | Cyber security showroom – How Lookers put data security into car dealership

Lege Trend: Data Security in Probate

Providing mechanisms to address a decedent’s online presence is a growing trend. 

This sounds rather nerdy, why is it important to a corporate client? Because the state may tell your client what it can and cannot do with customer data.

So, what state is now wading into this territory? Wyoming

What could happen with data at death?

  • A user would be able to direct a service, like Facebook,  to turn their accounts over to a fiduciary at death
  • Or, if a will isn’t so set up, then a data…

Data Security and Motor Vehicles. Who Proposes What.

What regulation proposals are floating around related to connected cars and data security?

Trending: Create an Executive Branch Position to Coordinate Cyber Security

Which executive is proposing a new cabinet level position to coordinate cybersecurity? President Obama’s proposed budget includes the creation of “new high-level federal official to coordinate cybersecurity across civilian agencies and to work with military and intelligence counterparts”

Is there a new cyber security plan? Yes, the “Cybersecurity National Action Plan”

What’s the goal?  build a cohesive, broad federal cybersecurity response that will:

  • “drive cybersecurity policy,…

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…