Welcome to the Future!
Who: University of Alabama
What: Sent its football players Apple Watches to track locations during COVID
The justification: The Apple watches are resources to provide for the health and well-being of student-athletes during this crisis
USA Today | Alabama’s use of Apple watches to track football players sets off rules debate
When did Nevada first pass blockchain legislation? 2017
What type of investments in block chain have been made since 2017? $400 million
What applications of blockchain are included in the investments?
Lahontan Valley News | Blockchain investment growing in Nevada, but what is it?
Where: Alabama
What: Alabama’s Department of Health is sharing the physical addresses of people who tested positive for COVID 19 with emergency responders
How does HIPPA calculate into this health information privacy issue? Alabama determined that public safety outweigh privacy concerns
Does Alabama have a law that also addresses this exception to health care information privacy? Yes, a state law permits the state to “notify a third party of the presence of a contagious disease in an individual where there is a foreseeable, real or probable risk of transmission of the disease.”
Have other states also released addresses of COVID positive individuals? Yes, Massachusetts
Alabama Media Group via Governing | Alabama Shares Addresses, Not Names, of COVID-19 Patients
Where: Michigan
How is Michigan’s CISO helping local governments with cyber security?
Will local cybersecurity help the state too? Yes, a cybersecurity partnerships with local governments benefit the state.
State Tech | Michigan’s CISO as a Service Boosts Local Cybersecurity
The association representing fintech interests: Innovative Lending Platform Association
How does fintech operating lending services in ways that differ from the traditional? underwrite loans using algorithms at speed and scale
How much COVID stimulus could be available for fintech startups? $450 billion in loans are set to be distributed through the Small Business Administration
Tech Crunch | Lending startups are angling for new business from the COVID-19 bailout
The company: Estimote
How can Estimote technology limit the spread of COVID? By monitoring the potential spread of the coronavirus from person-to-person
Why an Estimate device and why not just mobile phone or watch tracking? A dedicated wearable can help employers avoid doing something that may be seen as an invasive privacy issue
Tech Crunch | Estimote launches wearables for workplace-level contact tracing for COVID-19
A sampling of business booms in the time of COVID:
Who is hiring in droves:
The Mercury News via Governing | For Some Companies, Coronavirus Brought a Business Boom
Which state regulator: New York’s department of financial services (NYDFS)
What is the regulator requiring of cryptocurrency companies?
Top 4 data privacy issues associated with the pandemic:
EU Observer | Privacy issues arise as governments track virus
Who: “Cyber School,” by the Academy of Cybersecurity, operated voluntarily by cybersecurity experts
What: Daily live stream of coding and algorithms, online safety, ethical hacking and social engineering
Cyber Scoop | This team wants to teach your kids cybersecurity while they’re home from school