by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Civic Data & Tech, Data Privacy & Security
Unwilling to wait any longer for the federal government to act, legislators in Washington State are pushing for tougher rules and greater protections over the personal data that tech companies gather on their consumers. Companies that fail to comply with the proposed...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 28, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
If you’re on any social network, you’ve likely seen friends posting side-by-side pictures comparing themselves now vs. ten years ago. It’s fun. But the viral 10-Year Challenge making the rounds on social media could also pose a security risk to...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 28, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
The OPEN Government Data Act, which was passed by Congress near the end of 2018, was signed into law by President Donald Trump on January 14. The legislation requires that the federal government commit to releasing its valuable data sets to the public in a...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 28, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
The 34-day government shutdown has created huge backlog of unattended security tasks that may take weeks to unclog. But the lasting effect of the shutdown might be the drain on the institutional knowledge that is likely to happen if key cybersecurity personnel leave...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Data Privacy & Security
A law passed last December and signed by outgoing Governor Rick Snyder has placed Michigan on the leading edge of insurance data security. Sean Hoar and Bindu Nair collaborated in this report published in Mondaq: With this law, Michigan will join South Carolina, the...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Data Privacy & Security, Issues & Insights
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had been hoping to improve its data security by consolidating and streamlining its technology purchases this year. But the ongoing partial federal government shutdown has forced the TSA to postpone its planned $230...
