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Council Member Paladino raises concerns about MyCity portal security
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Council Member Vickie Paladino introduces her concerns about the security of the MyCity portal, particularly focusing on the proposed digital wallet feature. She references Intro 821, which calls for the creation of a centralized mobile application for accessing city services, and raises questions about identity protection, data accuracy, and potential privacy issues.
- Paladino emphasizes the importance of protecting personal information and preventing identity theft
- She inquires about the measures being taken to ensure secure data exchanges and protect against tracking
- The council member expresses worry about the 'Big Brother' aspect of centralized data systems
Vickie Paladino
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Thank you very much.
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I'm taking a slightly different turn on this.
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I'm going to talk a little bit about security.
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And when we brought up last year, we talked about the wallet, you know, the city wallet, how how what security measures are being put into place.
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But let me start off by reading a little paragraph here.
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Intro 0821, a local law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to the creation of a centralized mobile application for accessing city services.
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This bill would require the Department of Information Technology And Telecommunications to create a single mobile application allowing the public access services provided by different city agencies.
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The application would be accessible for persons with disabilities.
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Now here it is.
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The the department would encrypt all exchanges or transfers between the web server, the mobile application, the application software would open a source and public and make it publicly accessible.
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So here's where my question is.
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What measures a gonna be taken to ensure the identity is protected.
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AI information is accurate.
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Yes?
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How much money has been spent so far on the my city portal?
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But let me go back again to the protection of a person's public trust.
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And it seems like a 21 is addressing that.
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Centralized system to accept access services is great.
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It needs to be simple them.
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But more importantly, what I fear and I've always I always do that, it's the big brother stuff that I always have a problem with.
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I we have data breaches all the time.
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Identity thefts, is common.
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Encrypted exchanges as outlined in intro a 21 would ensure safe exchanges.
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Can you explain this to me, please?
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And how can we be concerned about the track asking aspect of all of this.
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I know I just laid out a whole bunch of stuff to you.
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So let's just let's just talk about what measures are being taken to ensure that a person's identity is not like this is like super important.
