InfoHive – Data Security

What are examples of prop tech?

• planning
  • real-estate development companies improve labor efficiency & reduce overhead with digital platforms like LegalZoom, QuickBooks and Google Drive
  • Citybldr to clarify land title issues
  • Coda Compliance streamlines entitlement — the process of obtaining government permissions for a property’s specific use
• construction
  • 3-D-printed prefab materials
• marketing
  • Matterport cameras to offer virtual touring of units
  • Latch smart door locks that allow self-guided in-home tours
• sale and rent of homes and commercial property
• for the management and maintenance of buildings
  • digital dashboards to monitor and operate indoor utilities

Local government policy issues:

• is the data transparent?
• is the data tractable?

Governing | Why Local Governments Should Nurture the Growth of Proptech

What local governmental entity has one of the longest running facial recognition software programs? Tampa Florida’s Pinella County

Has the software been used to identify protestors? No

What would cause the Sheriff to stop using the facial recognition software? Regulations

Tampa Bay Times via Governing | Tampa Has No Plans to Discontinue, Pause Facial Recognition

First came local bans on facial recognition software.

Now, Santa Cruz, California is banning predictive policing.

What’s predictive policing?  An algorithm that uses crime data to predict where crime is most likely to occur in the future

Arguments against the use of crime data for predictive policing:

• cements biased police practices
• disproportionately impact minority residents
• “put officers in conflict with communities” – Santa Cruz Police Chief

Santa Cruz Sentinel via Governing | Santa Cruz, Calif., Becomes First to Ban Predictive Policing

The legislation: The Security and Privacy in Your Car S2182 (116th Congress)

What does the legislation require?

• Establish standards to guarantee cybersecurity in computerized vehicles
• Protect users’ privacy
• Establish a “cyber dashboard,” a rating system about a vehicle’s performance capabilities
• The Federal Highway Administration would develop a “cybersecurity tool,” to identify, detect, safeguard and respond to cybersecurity concerns

Transport Topics | Democratic Senators Raise Cybersecurity Concerns About Autonomous Vehicles

The legislative proposal: The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act

What would the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee ask of Tech Companies? “end to “warrant-proof” encryption that’s disrupted criminal investigations”

What does this mean in practical terms? Requires tech companies to help law enforcement access encrypted data if their help would assist in carrying out a warrant

Is this the same as a backdoor into encrypted devices? Almost, but no, it is not the same

What else does the bill do? The Attorney General can create a competition for who can devise a way to access encrypted data while protecting privacy and security

CNET | Republicans push bill requiring tech companies to help access encrypted data

Where: New York

The legislation: So8600 (2020 | NY)

What limitations would be placed on TikTok? it could not be placed on any government owned device

Why ban Tiktok?

• data privacy concerns
• accusations it censors content critical of the Chinese government

Have there been other TikTok bans? Yes

• federal agencies including the State Department & Homeland Security
• The U.S. House passed an amendment to ban Tiktok
• A Republican U.S. Senator is also proposing legislation

Times union | Bill would ban TikTok from state-issued devices

Who is suing over locally collected scooter data? ACLU

Where is this happening? Los Angeles

What data is in dispute? Data collected by  Mobility Data Specification (MDS), developed by LADOT and a private-sector consultant that collects trip data

Why is this important to businesses & government?

• need clear data privacy rules. Privacy advocates want privacy protections and anonymized data
• need to document policy decisions tied to data collection. The lawsuit concerns whether there is a policy connection derived from the data collection

Governing | Los Angeles DOT in Federal Lawsuit over Scooter Data

The Local Government: New York City

The legislation to shine light on surveillance methods: The POST Act

What steps would law enforcement have to take under the POST Act?

• Requires police to inventory & publicize all of the surveillance devices that they use
• Requires a “surveillance impact and use” policy, or privacy policy, that creates guidelines for data collection and protection
• Requires an annual audit by the Office of the NYPD Inspector General

Which cities are model cities for transparency & oversight? Oakland and Seattle

Government Tech | New Legislation Could Mean Oversight of NYPD Spy Tools

Who: The Exemption Project

How does The Exemption Project identify un-utilized tax exemptions?

• Offers county governments an online portal and data service
• The data service identifies unqualified and unclaimed exemptions on tax rolls
  • it’s like homestead exemption auditing
• By processing a county’s tax roll through more than 80 data sets that aren’t stuck at 1 single point in time

Why was the project created? 2 government data experts wanted to create a project that was socially responsible

Gov Tech Biz | Startup Aims to Modernize the Property Tax Exemption Audit

• Iowa SF 2351 (2020 | IA)
• Washington
• Arizona
• New Mexico
• Nebraska
• Minnesota
• Wisconsin
• Illinois
• South Carolina
• Mississippi
• Virginia
• Maryland
• Florida
• Pennsylvania
• New York
• New Jersey
• Rhode Island
• New Hampshire
• Hawaii

States that have enacted California style data privacy laws: California, Nevada, Maine

IAAP | US State Comprehensive Privacy Law Comparison