I’ve been listening to a lot of Legislative meetings lately. In this weather one of the things I really appreciate about broadband is the ability to listen to these from the comfort of my own home on my own time, rather having to head to sessions at a set time. Also a recorded session lets me fast forward past the parts that aren’t interesting to me.

Yesterday I listened to Representative Freiberg discuss changing the privacy setting for email addresses submitting to the State for update – such as snow emergency updates.

Here’s the basic info:

HF20 – Personal contact information classified except where disclosure is specifically authorized by law.  – Authors: Freiberg, Laine; Schoen; Isaacson; Uglem; Nelson

And notes on the sessions:

Bill addresses privacy when residents give email address to get updated from government agencies. So residents who give their email address – say to get updated on snow emergencies – can assume that their addresses will not be shared.

The Chairs lays the bill over.

Folks testify: It protects email addresses and phone but not USPS address because that info is available in so many other ways. There was discussion about making this info via website as well. And there was discussion about how to counter the fact that the government might send out info that someone might not like and that person would not have a means to express their displeasure in the same way.