Inside NYC’s citywide privacy policy

It’s been two years since New York City Chief Privacy Officer Michael Fitzpatrick joined the Priorities Podcast to discuss how an updated citywide privacy policy could foster better collaboration between cybersecurity and data privacy teams. This week, Fitzpatrick returns to share what has happened in the two years since. He explains how artificial intelligence fits into the relationship between cybersecurity and privacy and how the city’s Office of Technology and Innovation, in the three years since its inception, has fought workforce shortages common across the public sector.

This week’s top stories:

A spokesperson from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed on Tuesday that it removed support from the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center. In a statement shared with StateScoop, the spokesperson said the action will save taxpayers $10 million annually. State and local technology officials said the MS-ISAC, which was created in 2004, has been a valuable resource as they’ve sought to protect their networks from a growing barrage of cyberattacks.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick last week announced that his department is removing the “pointless requirements” inserted by former President Joe Biden into a major broadband program that is set to deliver high-speed internet to millions of Americans. Lutnick said the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program had been hampered by “woke mandates.”

At the GitHub headquarters in San Francisco last week, software developers gathered for a hackathon, where they used their coding skills to help bring information and services to survivors of the recent Los Angeles wildfires.

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