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WWW.GOVTECH.COM 4 September 2018 // www.govtech.com GT09_02.indd 4 8/16/18 8:23 AM __________Designer __________Creative Dir. 100 Blue Ravine Road Folsom, CA 95630 916-932-1300 __________Editorial __________Prepress www.erepublic.com CMY grey T1 T2 T3 5 25 50 75 95 100 5 25 50 75 95 100 5 25 50 75 95 100 5 25 50 75 95 100 Page # __________Other ____________OK to go BLACK YELLOW MAGENTA CYAN POINT OF VIEW By Noelle Knell / Editor The Price of Privacy e live our lives online. Accord- wondered if American lawmakers should and regulation, the public sector must ing to Pew Research, a grow- take similarly aggressive measures. Calls for collect a lot of personal information. That Wing percentage of Americans action got louder with recent discoveries same data is then available by extension to — 26 percent of American adults as of about just how much personal data was any number of private-sector partners. If a January 2018 — are online “almost con- being collected and sold by “free” online breach occurs, will citizens be comforted stantly.” Those numbers jump to close to services like Facebook. It didn’t take long. by fi ngers pointed at a third party? 40 percent for people 49 years of age or As mentioned in our cover story, In the Many leading jurisdictions have started younger. And of those who visit the Inter- Balance (p. 16), the California Legislature to hire chief privacy offi cers, granting them net using mobile devices, 89 percent go passed its own set of privacy protections a seat at the table alongside agency leaders online daily.