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Oregon Lawmakers Introduce Privacy and Data Security Bill
Oregon legislators have proposed a bill to establish guidelines outlined by the state’s CIO office to address data privacy concerns. Other state legislatures are looking at similar laws. Shutterstock/LuckyStep
Oregon senators are considering a bill that would incorporate privacy and data security measures within shared IT services in state government, making Oregon one of several states to introduce legislation to address privacy concerns.
Senate Bill 293 would call for the appointment of a privacy officer within the state CIO’s office; the development of a privacy assessment tool for government IT projects; and communication with those whose information has been collected, stored or used as part of state agency IT projects.
here, we’ve provided updates on the pending Oklahoma Computer Data Privacy Act, House Bill 1602 (HB 1602), which – if passed – would require that businesses receive a consumer “opt-in” for the collection, use, and sale of the information of Oklahoma residents online. This bipartisan legislation had received national press as one of the first such “opt-in” laws in the country, and recently passed the Oklahoma House by a vote of 85 to 11 in early March.
Within the last week, however, the legislation has hit a potentially fatal roadblock in the Oklahoma Senate, as the Senate Judiciary Committee has not scheduled a committee hearing before a critical deadline next week due to opposition from Oklahoma senators. Failure to receive a committee hearing before next week’s legislative deadline means that the bill will not pass this legislative session.
In an effort to “lead by example,” Gov. Kevin Stitt received his COVID-19 vaccine – the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine – in front of a group of reporters gathered at a press conference held at the Oklahoma Capitol. Stitt said Oklahoma is one of the first states to reach the point of making all residents age 16 and older eligible, closing in on 2 million doses of vaccine administered since the rollout began three and a half months ago. State and county health departments administered 85% of those vaccines, 11% came from tribal partners and the rest through federal partners, Stitt said.
Oklahoma is doing a phenomenal job of getting the COVID-19 vaccine into people’s arms, but fallout from the disease will remain long after the pandemic ends, health experts said March 26 in a JR/Now webinar. All Oklahomans 16 or older are eligible to receive the vaccine beginning, as of March 29. As of March 26, nearly 1.5 million doses of vaccine had been given statewide and more than 32
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Keypoint: It was another busy week with developments in Washington, Florida, Oklahoma, Alaska, Nevada, and Rhode Island.
For the sixth week in a row, we are providing an update on the status of proposed CCPA-like privacy legislation. Before we get to our update, we wanted to provide three notes.
First, we are pleased to announce the results of our poll on whether to call Virginia’s new privacy law – the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act – the CDPA or VCDPA. By an overwhelming 85-15% margin readers prefer VCDPA to CDPA.