Texas Privacy Protection Advisory Council published its interim report to the 87th Legislature. The report addresses multiple interim charges relating to current cybersecurity practices, privacy laws, their request for information from stakeholders, other states’ action, and recommendations for the upcoming session. The report includes letters from S The report in its entirety can be found here.

 

Spotlight on Recommendations

  • Process for ensuring that all state agencies are adhering to privacy standards, and policies are continually updated to reflect new technologies, business practices, and risks
  • Proposals should consider a new and appropriate balance between additional consumer privacy protections and data security within a fair regulatory/compliance privacy framework
  • Proposals should consider the impact to highly regulated data, like health information or banking data, and how those proposals compliment applicable federal law
  • Legislation should be written broadly enough to allow the adoption of new technology and business standards
  • Proposals should consider existing laws in Texas and other states in order to not conflict
  • Texans have the right to know how their personal information is being used and the Legislature should consider ways to strengthen that right