Tech Groups Ask House Leaders To Support Privacy Act Extension Bill
Fourteen associations and organizations wrote House leaders Tuesday asking them to support the bipartisan Judicial Redress Act (H-1428), which would extend rights of Americans under the U.S. Privacy Act to citizens of designated allies, particularly EU members. Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner,…
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R-Wis., and John Conyers, D-Mich., introduced the bill in March. In the past two years, there has been a “significant erosion of global public trust” with the U.S. government and the U.S. technology sector, the letter said. U.S. companies are suffering and “face further burdens due to proposals to limit international data flows and impose onerous localization requirements on digital products and services,” it said. “U.S. citizens already enjoy this right in most EU Member States,” and this “will help foster a robust relationship,” the letter said. It was signed by the Computer & Communications Industry Association, Facebook, Foursquare, Google, the Information Technology Industry Council, the Internet Association, Microsoft, the Software & Information Industry Association and Yahoo.