Category Archives: local government

Lege Trend. 4 Pieces of Personal Information a Lawmaker wants Protected from State Disclosure in the Bluebonnet State

State: Texas

The pieces of information that State Representative Giovanni Capriglione wants to prohibit from being sold by the State of Texas:

  • A person’s precise geographic location
  • A person’s internet browsing history
  • A person’s application usage history
  • Teh functional equivalent of this information

What information is the State of Texas selling?

  • Voting records
  • Driver’s records

Houston Chronicle | Facebook may not sell the data it collects, but the state of Texas sure does

Local TREND. Promoting Cyber Security Skills in Public Education with Mayors Cyber Cup. 3 Points about the Competition.

Who is behind the California Mayors Cyber Cup? California Mayors and California Cyberhub

The competition: brings high school and junior high school students from across the state to represent their specific cities in a cybersecurity competition

The policy goals: 

  • educated workforce
  • leader in addressing the global cybersecurity skills gap
  • helps cities meet economic development goals to strengthen the workforce

CISION | California Uses Cyber Competition to Bring Cybersecurity Awareness to…

What's been the legislative & regulatory responses to Atlanta's ransomware attack?

Atlanta’s city services recently experienced a ransomware attack, the responses include:

  • Calls for more transparency for utilities about their cybersecurity to “keep consumers aware of the threats and their frequency”
  • Because electricity is a security issue, the market cannot resolve the issue & the government must act
  • FERC is beefing up mandatory reporting requirements

Eagle Tribune Opinion | Utilities should be more transparent about cybersecurity

Local Government TREND. How 1 City Arms its Citizens in CyberSecurity.

City: New York City

Cybersecurity protection offered by NYC: A free app called NYC Secure that alerts a person to mailcious attempts to hack their device

5 Components to NYC Secure:

  • Its a free app
  • It will not collect or transmit any personal identifying information
  • It will not collect or transmit private data
  • It works in coordination with increased security rollouts at NYCs public Wi-Fi networks
  • New York’s NYC Cyber Command (NYC3), a city-level cyber defense organization, will oversee…

Lege Trend. 1st in nation Criminal Case Database Run by a State + Local Governments Beating this TREND.

State: Florida

The bill: HB 7071 (2018)

What would this database do?

  • store searchable, anonymized data about individual defendants
  • includes ethnicities
  • includes details of plea agreements
  • county-level data about the daily number of people being held in a given jail pre-trial
  • annual misdemeanor caseload at each court

How is this trend progressing?

  • local governments like counties in California have created their own criminal case databases

WIRED | FLORIDA COULD START A CRIMINAL-JUSTICE…

Local TREND. Local Government Triggers Data Consortium. +1 City- Texas' Bayou City.

What role did local government play? Houston Mayor and City Council tasked a group to develop strategies to support and attract technology companies

The result of the local government task:  A land-neutral proposal for a data consortium 

Local additional elements: The Univeristy of Houston’s Institute for Data Science that will focus on:

  • cyber and physical security
  • drug development and discovery
  • sustainable communities and infrastructure
  • accessible and personalized health care

 

Houston…

Lege & Contracting TREND. +1 Western State Sends Net Neutrality Bill to its Governor. 3 Points from the Bill.

State: Oregon

The legislation: OR HB 4155 (2018)

What does Oregon’s HB4155 do?

  • It does not mandate net nuetrality
  • it prohibits agencies, cities and counties from using internet service that blocks or prioritizes specific content or apps
  • it does not apply in areas where there is only 1 service provider

oregon Live | Oregon Senate sends net neutrality bill to Gov. Kate Brown

Seattle Times | Net neutrality bill passes Oregon Legislature 

 

Business TREND. TRUST CHARTER to partner Business & Government in Data Security. 8 partners. 2 fundamentals.

The 8 partners in the TRUST CHARTER:

  • Siemens
  • Munich Security Conference
  • Airbus
  • Allianz
  • Daimler Group
  • IBM
  • NXP
  • SGS
  • Deutsche Telekom

Action Areas for Business and Government:

  • A call to responsibility at the highest levels of government and business with a dedicated government section and chief information officer at organizations
  • Companies must develop mandatory, third-party certification for infrastructure and solutions

“Governments must take a leadership role when it comes to the…

Lege TREND. Blockchain Bills in the Goldenrod flower state. 3 Key Elements to the Bills with Local Government Preemption

State: Nebraska

The legislation: 

  • LB 987 Bitcoin as acceptable currency
  • LB 691 Virtual Currency Money Laundering Act
  • LB 694  State preemtion on blockchain technology & prohibits local taxing of blockchain
  • LB 695 Blockchain state contracting

LB 694 & 695 will require that:

  • blockchain signatures are legally valid in Nebraska
  • smart contracts are valid in all commerce in Nebraska
  • local governments cannot tax, license or regulate blockchain technology

Omaha World Herald | Nebraska…

Procurement Opportunity. State Cyber Crime Labs. Anatomy of a State Cyber Crime Lab.

State: Alabama

Agency Housing the Cyber Crime Lab: Attorney General Office

What tools does the operator of a cyber crime lab need?

  • talent to unlock cell phone evidence
  • talent to track down credit/debit card skimmers
  • talent to unmask criminals behind identity theft
  • talent to help businesses &  local governments recover revenue  lost in cyber theft 

AL.com | State launches lab to fight growing problem of cyber crime