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The California Department of Technology and the Franchise Tax Board are both looking for leadership for critical technology programs.
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Legal scrutiny of California's net neutrality law will likely continue, but a federal appeals court ruling is seen as a win in the battle over Internet autonomy.
The proposed act, from the group behind the California Consumer Privacy Act, would ensure companies follow the standards of that earlier legislation.
State CIO Amy Tong was a key speaker Tuesday at the annual conference of the Municipal Information Systems Association of California meeting in Monterey.
His background in Splunk and other log tools includes installation, configuration, migration of data, installation of apps and add-ons, creation of custom reports and dashboards, performance management and tuning.
Fifty discrete sets of state-level privacy laws — like the California Consumer Privacy Act coming Jan. 1 — would come down hard on local business and government and create confusion for consumers.
The position will be 'housed' at the Government Operations Agency, a spokesperson has said, but that department is working with Gov. Gavin Newsom's office on the hiring process.
A Palo Alto tech company aims to use open source technology to help local agencies aggregate and analyze dockless mobility and rideshare data.
An official cited the new director's "background in network operations and security." He leaves a similar job at a nearby Bay Area municipality.
The college's first three program offerings for what's known as the "beta cohort" will each have a technology focus.
The Northern California municipality plans to create its formal policy during the next roughly 12 months, in order to maintain the trust of residents whose information it may collect and store.
"In the age of big data, it’s like we’ve become data hoarders. It’s not that more data is bad, but more data without cleaning is a mess."
The advocate, who drove creation of the California Consumer Privacy Act, said: “Now it is the time to push for even more rights for privacy.”
Both of the department's efforts deployed in 2018 and have found success in handling high-volume, repetitive tasks and questions.
One county in the state is already using the service and a second is running a pilot program. The idea is to capture tax revenue lost through illicit vacation rentals and unpermitted property improvements.
Four noteworthy positions are in recruitment — two in state government and two in county government.
The proposal raised the ire of business groups and transit advocates, who said broadband Internet should not qualify for funding through Measure M, the sales tax increase for transportation projects.
When complete, the initiative will unify more than a score of now separate IT systems, many of which are aging and don't communicate well.
The state's former chief information security officer has returned to the private sector, but he's volunteering to beef up the California Military Department's cyberdefenses. And he wants vendors to join him.
"There is a gray area with respect to internal digital service teams and external vendor support. What we don’t talk about much is that the reality is the smaller a government gets, the less likely they’re able to attract or afford digital talent, regardless of the sense of mission it brings."
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