Category Archives: legislative trend

Regulatory Trend: Cybersecurity & Connected Cars. (Wifi Cars, not Trains)

What agency is talking cybersecurity & cars? The FTC

What committee heard from the FTC? Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade of the House Energy and Commerce Committee

What did the FTC testify to?

  • FTC is the “the nation’s lead privacy and data security enforcement agency”
  • Proposed legislation is weaker than the FTC rulemaking on “connected cars”
  • Proposed safe harbor for auto manufacturers that submit privacy policies to the Department of Transportation was too…

5 Ways Federal CyberSecurity Bill will Impact Health Care

  • It will “create a framework that would allow different healthcare entities to exchange information regarding cybersecurity”
  • Allow for the exchange of  various potential threats
  • Allow health care entities to share best practice security measures
  • Cybersecurity bill would make the health care cybersecurity netowrk available to both private and federal healthcare entities
  • Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society supports the bill

Health IT Security | Senate Pursues…

Millions of Funding for Data Security for Electric Generation, Electric Grids & Oil & Gas.

  • Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium heads the $28.1 effort
  • Consists of 11 national laboratories and universities and is led by the University of Illinois
  • Dartmouth received a $925,000 grant to “improve the protection of the electric grid and oil and natural gas infrastructure from cyber threats”

Concord Monitor | AP | Dartmouth College gets $925K cybersecurity grant

Lege Trend: Student Data Security Bills in KeyStone State. 9 Prohibitions for Education Vendors.

Multiple bills dealing with protecting student data have been filed in the Pennsylvania legislature.

The bills include provision to set standards on education vendors for:

  • Prohibit tapping student information to target them with advertising;
  • Prohibit amassing profiles of students for non-educational purposes; 
  • Prohibit the sale or sharing of student information outside of narrow circumstances.
  • Require vendors to secure student data and delete it all upon the district’s…

Lege Trend: Model forms for Data Breach Notifications

California amended its data breach notification statutes this year to do 2 things:

1. Expand the definition of what type of information breach requires a notification for information gathered by an automatic license plate reader.

2. Provide a model form for entities that experience a data breach

National Law Review | California Amends Data Breach Notification Statute by Requiring Specific Notification Content and Expanding the Definition of Personal Information 

Drones & Data Storage. A Legislative Trend.

Drones collect data. Data everywhere. Private data. Public Data.

Legislatures and local governments are focused on …How long that data is stored, under what conditions, and under what dislcosure requirements is legislative fodder.

Are these private drones or public drones? Data release and data storage could apply to either. Here’s some of the legislative questions:

  • Are there penalties for a person’s private drone that collects data of someone’s orivate property?
  • How long can law…

City Creates CyberSecurity Squad. 5 Details to Build Your Own.

  • The local government creating the Cyber Security Squad: San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp
  • Why? The region is replete with defense and communications technology expertise
  • Goal of the Cyber Squad: “foster, enable and accelerate the cyber economy and to create an innovation hub for cyber here in the region”
  • Economic Boost from the Cyber Squad? Yes. Yes. Yes. 13 percent growth in the region for cyber, with over 100 companies, & 6,500 jobs. The economic growth rate of other…

3 Points from an Education Tech Expert on Student Data Security

Who is the expert? James Steyer

  •  Founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, a San Francisco-based not-for-profit that, among other things, studies and advocates for children’s online privacy.
  • He is a a former civil rights attorney
  • Common Sense Media helped push 2014 California legislation, the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act, that bars operators of educational websites aimed at kids from amassing data profiles on their users

What are his points to protect student…

Lege Trend: New State Data Security Laws. New State Cyber Security Agency. 8 Goals.

The New Jersey Legislature moved forward a data security law that will:

  • Create the New Jersey Cyber Security Commission
    • It will be a 13-member commission within New Jersey’s Department of Criminal Justice.
    • 6 members will be:  representatives from the state Attorney General’s Office, the chief technology officer of the Office of Information Technology, the chief executive officer of the state Economic Development Authority, the commissioner of the Department of Education, the…