On the Priorities podcast, New York City Chief Privacy Officer Micahel Fitzpatrick says a brand new privacy policy will additional how the town’s privacy and cybersecurity workplaces work collectively.
The new policy comes a few yr after Mayor Eric Adams consolidated IT operations that had been scattered throughout metropolis authorities right into a single new company. Before the consolidation, three separate businesses handled cybersecurity, privacy and information know-how.
“The theory of that [consolidation] was that in the prior state of affairs in new York City related to technology matters you had offices with different reporting structures, often creating administrative barriers that didn’t allow for the kinds of collaboration that really are necessary,” Fitpzatrick tells StateScoop’s Keely Quinlan. “[Now] we’re driving that conversation and that collaboration at the agency level.”
The collaborative efforts lengthen past the 5 boroughs, and out into the bigger authorities privacy neighborhood, Fitzpatrick says. He says repeatedly talks with New York State’s privacy officer, Michele Jones, and is constructing relationships in cities throughout the U.S., in addition to internationally.
In the news this week:
Code for America will reduce off monetary and operational assist for its community of native volunteer teams. The transfer will depart some 60 brigades needing to chart paths to monetary independence. The resolution comes because of declines in funding and volunteerism after the pandemic.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbot this week issued formal directions for state businesses to implement the TikTok ban he signed final December. Under the steerage, developed by the Texas departments of Public Safety and Information Resources, businesses businesses should “identify, track and control” state-owned gadgets in an effort to prohibit entry to TikTok and a listing of different Chinese-made tech merchandise.
California has a brand new director of its Data and Innovation Office. Nolwenn Godard, the product director on the monetary know-how firm SoFi, will take over the workplace, which was created out of a merger final yr of the state’s knowledge analytics and digital innovation workplaces.
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