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SOPIPA and Student Privacy Pledge are all the talk among Edtech companies gathered in NYC.
California’s SOPIPA passed in 2014 has influenced other state legislation. Student data protection isn’t just for state legislatures. Its also federal- Hello, FERPA.
And, state boards of education have used rule making to address data protection that can can hinder or assist edtech companies.
The federal employee data breach this week, triggered an emergency contract of $20+million to provide credit monitoring services.
It’s a common response to offer these services. The Texas Comptroller did the same a few years ago when state employee records were breached/exposed.
The techies say credit monitoring is only part of the solution when a person’s data is breached. Other parts to the solution are:
A data breach at Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services made 6,600 Medicaid patients’ information, including Social Security numbers and private health information, available online.
A federal judge in Los Angeles Monday refused to throw out legal claims that Sony was negligent in maintaining adequate data security.
Refresher: the Sony data hack led to the release of:
4.1 million current and former federal employees had their information exposed in a federal government data hack. California’s Department of Technology regulates data security.
The California Department of Technology reports 204 data breaches in 2014 among state agencies.
State cybersecurity jobs are notoriously tough to fill. The private sector pays better and state hiring moves at a glacial pace. As a result, data security is often outsourced which opens the data up to another layer of potential data breaches.
Rand Paul has filabuster against the Patriot Act and has outspoken opinions on NSA data collection.
His opinions are echoed by Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders.
Factor in the recent federal government employee data breach and Hillary Clinton’s Department of State email, and data security and data privacy will play a key role in upcoming elections.
FBI is investigating a data breach allegedly pertetrated by the St. Louis Cardinals back office.
If you see one mouse in the barn, there are likely a lot more mice. Corporate data breaches are likley far more common.
Connecticut passed new data breach laws that will:
“Sweeping changes to provincial health privacy laws will soon cut down the red tape preventing authorities from prosecuting snoopers and force hospitals to declare all breaches of patient records to the privacy watchdog.”
Cyber Security Firms & their Investors according to the WallStreet Journal.
In the honorable mention category- are the data breach fixing firms, like the quick $21M federal contract to CSID. WashingtonPost