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Lege TREND. Disclosure of Election Hacks. Disclosure, Good for the Goose & the Gander?

The legislation: Congress’ Achieving Lasting Electoral Reforms on Transparency and Security Act (ALERTS Act)

The government disclosure requirement:

Disclosue to state and local officials and Members of Congress i
Disclose credible evidence of an unauthorized intrusion into an election system
If they have a reasonable basis to believe that such intrusion could have resulted in voter information being altered or otherwise affected.
Rquires state & local officials to alert potentially…

Hawaii’s Public Land Trust Information System allows for searchable information such as:

Washington State is considering SB 5376 and HB 1854 (WA | 2019) will:

Consumer Access to data collected on them
Consumers can delete data collected on them
Consumers can correct their data
Consumers can restrict access to their data
Consumers can get a copy of their data
Consumers can object to their data for marketing
No profiling based on data
Comapnies collecting data have 30 days to respond to consumer requests, with an extention of an additional 60 days for voluminous requests

The…

Tim Cook (Apple) is recommending a Data Broker Registry.

What’s a data broker? they buy and sell data from third parties

So how would it work?

every consumer can opt into their data being collected or not
consumers would be able to remove their data from the registry
the FTC would house the registry and consumers could see what info is being collected and by whom

Why does this sound familiar? Because in 2018 informed:intel told you about the first in the nation data broker state law in VT,…

data helps create more efficient permitting processes
- CT allows local governments to get occupational licensing data directly form the state
overdose data helps first responders and hospitals prepare for epidemics
Prevent fraud
- IN adopted its Indiana’s Management and Performance Hub to “integrate” data from several agencies to build custom analytics solutions.” Its addressing issues from car crashes and infant mortality to Medicaid optimization.
- TX shared data across agencies…

tech companies should de-identify customer data or not collect customer data
comprehensive federal law is necessary
- why? tech companies that collect a lot of data are basically spies
people should have a right in their data, and a right to have that data minimized
consumers must be told what data is being collected & why
the data belongs to the users and users (consumers) should always have access to it

The gold standard law: GDPR in the EU

An Atlanta news station asked for public records related to Atlanta’s ransomware attack.

The city repsonse: No. Not going to happen.

Why is the city denying the open records request? ongoing investigation, ongoing security concerns

What do freedom of information experts say? The Freedom of Information Act does allow for exemptions during open investigations

State: Texas

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

What information is the State of Texas selling?

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

Michigan enacted HB 4973 (2018) which will exclude cybersecurity information from open records requests.

It creates these 4 cybersecurity definitions to protect the state’s cybersecurity: