Cybersecurity
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A breach in a Minnesota Department of Human Services system allowed inappropriate access to the private data of nearly 304,000 people, with officials saying there is no evidence the data was misused. -
A contract with Motorola Solutions will enable the county to do a better job of safeguarding its emergency radio communications system. Tower sites and radio dispatch consoles will get 24/7 security.
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With its longtime federal support now withdrawn, one of the country’s largest public-sector cybersecurity support organizations has moved to a new paid model where states handle the bill for its services.
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The ransomware attack against the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office in 2016 was left unreported until the incident was made public earlier this month. Experts say that’s several years too late.
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Illinois made headlines in 2016 after state election officials notified 76,000 voters that their information in the registration database had been breached but not changed, an advent being described as a wake up call.
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Technology will dominate how we vote in the 2020 presidential elections, and so will the risks. To avoid problems, we need to get back to the basics with paper ballots and use risk-limiting audits to verify the results.
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According to a plan by Attorney General Dave Yost and Gov. Mike DeWine, the photos of nearly 8.8 million drivers will be fed into a facial recognition database used by law enforcement officers and federal immigration officials.
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The federal lawsuit filed Thursday centers on the use of Chromebook laptops in primary and secondary schools and alleges that the company is using that access to mine for personal student information.
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There are no federal rules regulating facial recognition technology or what’s done with data obtained through its use, which city officials say is forcing them to follow the lead of other cities with their own rules.
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With fears of foreign election interference on the rise, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a strategic road map ahead of the 2020 presidential elections.
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The public-private partnership hopes to bolster cybersecurity businesses geared toward protecting banks and other large companies, while also creating a wealth of new regional jobs in the process.
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Large tech companies are looking to states to create data privacy laws as Congress slows its momentum. California’s Consumer Privacy Act became a catalyst for other states deliberating similar actions.
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Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced that the county had complied with a 34-point security checklist released by his office in 2019. The measures are meant to defend against attacks on elections infrastructure.
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Many agencies failed to comply with IT security practices that protect sensitive information against data loss or theft, with findings showing no progress has been made from past reports on similar concerns.
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Washington state senators Wednesday approved a bill that would begin regulating the use of facial-recognition programs by local and state governments, one in a series of related proposals up for review this year.
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The law, which is set to go into effect in July, is among the strictest consumer privacy protections in the country, modeled on a Federal Communications Commission rule that was overturned in 2017 by President Trump.
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A senator is proposing a bill that would aim to authorize residents’ requests to remove have content removed from the Internet in Iowa. If passed, this would mandate that the operator remove the requested content within 30 days.
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The law, which passed in 2019 and takes effect in July, would require Internet service providers to obtain opt-in consent from customers before any sharing or use of personal data could occur.
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The department is piloting crime forecasting software that promises to better direct police patrols to the places where certain crimes are most likely to occur, specifically using ShotSpotter to detect gunfire.
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There is often a tension between law enforcement’s use of novel technologies to gather information that might help hold lawbreakers accountable and the civil liberties of the residents they protect.
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The draft of legislation would allow automakers to sell autonomous vehicles without steering wheels or brake pedals. The proposed law would require automakers to provide annual detailed descriptions of what they are doing to mitigate hacking risks.
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