In New Jersey, 74% of COVID positive persons will not cooperate. New Jersey has 30 contact tracers for every 100,000 persons. NJ.com | N.J.’s big hangup in coronavirus fight gets worse. Contact tracers find 74% unwilling to cooperate.
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+1 City Bans Use of Facial Recognition Software.
Continuing Black Lives Matter reforms, Madison, Wisconsin voted to ban the use of facial recognition software by city agencies. The reasons offered for opposing the use of facial recognition software: unreliable faulty would worsen the racial disparities The exception that allows use of facial recognition software: to identify and locate “victims of human trafficking, child […]
US Supreme Court & Data Privacy. Employers & Unauthorized Access
In Van Buren v. U.S. the question is whether unauthorized use of a law enforcement database by a law enforcement officer, who was authorized to the use the database, but not for this search, is that sanctionable? Why does this matter? Did you ever check your realreal bids at the office? Or run a quick […]
COVID Broadband. Where should it go? National Governors Association
The National Governors Association has a new study about locating new broadband. The nuts & bolts: The FCC collects broadband access data, but says it is imperfect Up to 42 million could be underserved by broadband Suggests a program in North Carolina was a good way to map broadband access. North Carolina stakeholders included state […]
Bill to Develop EV Charger Data
The legislation: HR 8807 (116th Congress) What will HR 8807 do? Create a $10M grant program for local governments and utilities To determine where to locate EV charging stations What information will the data help solve? data on travel patterns and regional commutes data to address and quell range anxiety produce a map “identifying concentrations […]
COVID Data. Health Data Audits
Which legislature is calling on health care data audits? Pennsylvania How will this work? The Legislature’s House Budget and Finance Committee will audit data maintained by the Health Department to identify anomalies in its reporting What: HR 1087 (2020 | PA) Why? What was the Legislature reacting to? Discrepancy between the number of COVID-19-related deaths […]
COVID Legislation. Health Data
What: HB6314 (2020 | MI) Where: Michigan What else does HB 6314 do? Require a uniform and centralized data system to collect data related to testing sites and a public resource with detailed information about cases, testing, deaths, recoveries, available PPE, hospital occupancy and much more.
State vs. Feds on Data Privacy Protections
California’s Data Privacy Legislation, CCPA, and its amendments passed by voters in November 2020, federal legislation is thought to likely meet or exceed California data privacy standards. What would be included in federal legislation that isn’t in California’s? individual privacy rights for data privacy whether private individuals may bring a cause of action for data […]
COVID enforcement by Robot
Where: Japan What: A robot identifies individuals not wearing masks or socially distancing and politely advises the person to wear a mask or maintain social distancing. News Herald | Robot in Japan reminds people to follow coronavirus etiquette
Audit: State Should Create a privacy office
The state: Oregon Why is a state privacy office necessary? state agencies collect a lot of personal information there is no consistent statewide policy unhanding personal information state must ensure that privacy risks are identified and managed state must ensure there is a process to handle security incidents A fragmented system relying on each agency […]