Lege Trend: Student Data Protection from the North. 3 Keys to Student Data Protection.

The state: Minnesota

The approach to student data protection: Recommendations for the 2017-2018 Minnesoata Legislature

The focus: 3 Points of focus:

  • The information collected by its state department of education
  • Whether it is necessary for the state to collect the student data
  • The use of student data by vendors

Milwaukee Star Tribune | Legislators to study how to protect student data

Lege Trend: Fund Cybersecurity Apprentice Program for Disabled Veterans in State DIR

The State: North Carolina

The cybersecurity apprenticeship qualifications:

  • 10% disability rating from the Department of Veterans Affairs
  • $600,000 per year
  • Allows the Department of Information Technology to hire and train five veterans for cybersecurity-focused positions

State coop | North Carolina moves closer to creating cyber apprenticeship program for disabled vets

Interim. How Anti Hacking Laws Block Scholarly Research

What type of schalarly research is hitting against anti-hacking laws?

  • Michigan & Illinois researchers are looking at real estate websites to track discriminatory practices
  • Northeastern University researchers are looking at discriminatory practices in job posting websites

How do they run afoul with anti-hacking laws? The researchers generate faux profiles on the websites they are researching

WallStreet Journal | First Amendment Suit Claims Anti-Hacking Law Criminalizes Scholarly Research

Tort Reform Issue in Data Breaches.

The key tort issue in data breaches: whether the consumer has been injured

What’s the argument if hackers have your information isn’t that a harm to a consumer? Some courts say yes, other courts say no.

Where are cases proceeding where the harm of the data breach is only having your personal information hacked? Judges in California, Illinois and other states

Wallstreet Journal | For Consumers, Injury Is Hard to Prove in Data-Breach Cases

 

TREND. Auto Data Security. Car Theft by Hacking. 3 Pieces Informed Intel to Protect from New Laws.

How? Via laptop theives can open doors, and start an ignition to steal late model cars prompting new laws against auto manufacturers to secure vehicle data

Is this in Texas? Yes. Houston has recorded theft of a 2010 Jeep

Which manufacturers are targeted? Known hacks of autombilies are of Fiat Chrysler, GM and Tesla vehicles

WallStreet Journal | Thieves Go High-Tech to Steal Cars

TREND. INTERIM. Fine businesses for data breaches.

Citizens in the UK dislike both the European Union and Businesses that have data breaches. 

An overwhelming majority supporting fining businesses & the recommendation has made it to Parliament.

Computer Weekly | UK consumers support fines for firms that lose personal data

UK Parliament | Cyber Security: Protection of Personal Data Online