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Policy \ Govt Initiative
- Policies/Regulations (public-sector/policy.md & public-sector/public-sector.md)
- Europe
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- California SB786
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California
- Our Input to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Pre-Rulemaking Stakeholder Sessions Me2BA
California is a major center of new privacy law and regulation, creating opportunities for internet safety advocates to help design policies that will ripple out well beyond the state’s borders. Their Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), passed by ballot proposition in 2020, created the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), which seems to be getting closer to initiating its first formal rulemaking process.
- Data Broker Registry State of California Department of Justice
California law requires a data broker, as defined in California Civil Code § 1798.99.80, to register with the Attorney General on its internet website that is accessible to the public, on or before January 31 following each year in which a business meets the definition of a data broker.
On May 4th, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into effect a “Blockchain Executive Order”
“[to] assess how to deploy blockchain technology for state and public institutions, and build research and workforce development pathways to prepare Californians for success in this industry”.
- Our Input to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Pre-Rulemaking Stakeholder Sessions Me2Ba
We have monitored and involved ourselves in this new agency since its inception, and Lisa LeVasseur (our Executive Director) and Noreen Whysel (Director of Validation Research) shared their expertise on product audits and dark patterns, respectively, in a recent pre-rulemaking CPPA Stakeholder Session (May 5-6).
- Soulbound Tokens, Trust Networks, and California's Big Test Wrenchinthegears
California SB1190 that would establish a “Trust Framework” at the state level. This bill was introduced to the state senate in early March by Robert Hertzberg, close friend of Los Angeles billionaire investor Nicholas Berggruen
The Verifiable Credential’s Policy Committee, (that Kaliya Chairs) in California had a big win this week
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California Moves Forward to Allow Vital Records to be Issued on Blockchain Coindesk
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approved another on Wednesday that instructs county records offices to allow for the use of blockchain technology and verifiable credentials. The technology would be established in the distribution of birth, death and marriage records, allowing PDFs to be sent immediately rather than using a typical 10-day postal delivery.
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California Legalizes Blockchain-based Vital Records MobileDataWorld
As an abstract of the bill explains, while existing law requires such records “to contain certain information and to be printed on chemically sensitized security paper, as specified,” the new legislation enables a county recorder to, upon request, issue a birth, death, or marriage record “by means of verifiable credential, as defined, using blockchain technology, defined as a decentralized data system, in which the data stored is mathematically verifiable, that uses distributed ledgers or databases to store specialized data in the permanent order of transactions recorded.”
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VCs Policy Committeee (California) – Participate in passing legislation to create a California Trust Framework! by Kaliya Young, Ally Medina Slides
discussed how the Blockchain Advocacy Coalition’s sponsorship of AB 2004 pushed verifiable credentials into mainstream political discourse and how companies can help us shape public policy and government pilot programs of Verifiable Credential technology.
We are planning on working with legislators to introduce a bill that creates a California Trust Framework and lays the groundwork for use of the technology in the public and private sector.
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Me2BA provides human-centered recommendations to the California Privacy Protection Agency
The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”) established the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”). The CPPA has full administrative power and authority to implement the CCPA and CPRA, which basically means that the CPPA will be in charge of updating regulations and adopting new regulations, while enforcement of these regulations will be done by both the CPPA and the Attorney General
- California Digital Vaccine Record based on VCs Heather Vescent June 18
May be of interest: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-18/california-unveils-system-to-provide-digital-covid-19-vaccine-records
SMART Health Card Framework: https://vci.org/about#smart-health
To achieve this purpose, the founding members of VCI™ have collaborated to develop (1) the SMART Health Cards Framework Implementation Guide based on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Verifiable Credential and Health Level 7 (HL7) SMART on FHIR standards, and (2) the SMART Health Cards: Vaccination & Testing Implementation Guide.
If you are in California, you can get your vaccine record here: https://myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov/
You’re invited to participate in an exciting pilot program being launched by ATB Ventures and the Government of Alberta.