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Utah Office of Data Privacy outlines framework, urges state-endorsed digital identity
Summary
State chief privacy officer Christopher Bramwell told a legislative interim committee the Utah Office of Data Privacy is rolling out a privacy program framework, annual reporting for government entities, and work on a state-endorsed digital identity to increase public trust in government data use.
Christopher Bramwell, chief privacy officer and director of the Utah Office of Data Privacy, told the Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee that Utah has created a statewide privacy program framework and is moving to standardize how public entities govern, retain and use data. Bramwell said the office — placed in the Department of Government Operations and only about a year old — aims to improve data governance incrementally while research and stakeholder input shape new policy recommendations.
Bramwell said the office’s goals include comprehensive data governance, verifiable data and verifiable identity so the public can “verify technologically” that data and the actors processing it are legitimate. “When all three of those requirements are met, then you’d have verifiable trust,” he said.
The office published version 2 of its privacy program framework and tracks more than 20 practices. Bramwell described an annual reporting requirement that requires governmental entities to file a privacy…
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