privacy Archives - Seattle City Council Insight

Council passes surveillance technology ordinance

On 07/31/2017 By Kevin Schofield In police, public safety

This afternoon the Council adopted an ordinance updating the city’s existing law restricting the acquisition of surveillance technologies.

City finally discloses last week’s privacy bug (UPDATED)

On 09/23/2016 By Kevin Schofield In IT, utilities

Yesterday Seattle City Light and Seattle Public Utilities finally disclosed last week’s privacy leak. SEE UPDATE BELOW

City still covering up last week’s privacy leak

On 09/20/2016 By Kevin Schofield In IT, utilities

Eight days ago, city employees discovered a second vulnerability in the new NCIS billing system for Seattle Public Utilities and Seattle City Light, which exposed customers’ private information. The city still has not publicly disclosed this incident, in violation of its own policy.

NCIS went live today, with a couple of problems

On 09/05/2016 By Kevin Schofield In utilities

The new NCIS billing and customer information system for Seattle City Light and Seattle Public Utilities went live this morning — mostly. According to the team, they had two problems with one of the 40 external applications that NCIS connects to. One of the problems is just slightly annoying; the other one is a small privacy breach that was caught and plugged quickly.