Wednesday, June 10, 2020

June 10, 2020-Do You Know Where Connecticut Sends Your Personal Information To?

Do you know where Connecticut sends your personal information to?  Do you know if this legal?  Were you told that your personal information would be used without your knowledge and your consent by Connecticut?
If one looks more closely to the secret signed agreement/contract between Executive Order Governor Ned Lamont and the Boston Consulting Group, there is an unreported provision regarding "identifier information" for "contact tracing". This provision allows this company to access without question or notification Connecticut residents personal information that includes:(from the contract)

Appendix A Page 6

Appendix A: Contract Terms
1. DEFINITIONS
Confidential Information:  Any name, number or other information that may be used, alone or in conjunction with any other information, to identify a specific individual including, but not limited to, such individual's name, date of birth, mother's maiden name, motor vehicle operator's license number, Social Security number, employee identification number, employer or taxpayer identification number, alien registration number, government passport number, health insurance identification number, demand deposit account number, savings account number, credit card number, debit card number or unique biometric data such as fingerprint, voice print, retina or iris image, or other unique physical representation. Without limiting the foregoing, Confidential Information shall also include any information that the  State classifies as “confidential” or “restricted.”  Confidential Information shall not include information that may be lawfully obtained from publicly available sources or from federal, state, or local government records which are lawfully made available to the general public. 
I am curious as to why we as Taxpayers and citizens of the state are not notified of this?   Since when is our personal information allowed to be given to a consulting group?   We still have not been given an explanation as to what the state is going to receive on this apparent open ended contract that apparently can be renewed through 2021 with this Boston Consulting Group.  Nor do we hear anything from our inoperative legislature (which in theory is our real government) during this crisis or on this contract. 
Moreover, it seems that this legislature failed to report the details of this contract, and this development is even more appalling as more than one legislator has sent an article linking to this contract to recipients on their mailing lists, thereby proving the contract information was in hand, (and unread).

My friend Tony De Angelo continues to discuss this and other Lamont profit issues and the web of Lamont ties to companies doing business with the state on his weekly segment "Ten Minutes With Tony" from June 9, 2020  that can be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDVbvTcJ8xY&feature=youtu.be. Please listen to it as I highly recommend it.   The media seems to be continuing to ignore these issues.  I wonder why?

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