Obama Signs Customs Bill Containing PITFA, Judicial Redress Act
President Barack Obama signed into law two much-discussed bills Wednesday -- the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act (HR-644), which contains language permanently extending the Internet Tax Freedom Act, and the Judicial Redress Act (HR-1428). "We take our privacy seriously,"…
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Obama said before signing the Judicial Redress Act. "Along with our commitment to innovation, that’s one of the reasons that global companies and entrepreneurs want to do business here. We enforce our privacy laws, unlike a number of other countries. And in fact, just this month, we finished a landmark new agreement called the Privacy Shield, which provides tough new protections to safeguard consumer data, and it gives certainty to thousands of businesses representing hundreds of billions of dollars in trade." Judicial Redress was seen as an important factor in the establishment of the Privacy Shield agreement between the U.S. and the EU. "We’ve also established the first Privacy Council to strengthen protections of people’s personal information and privacy rights across the federal government," Obama said. "We’ve put new laws and policies in place that clarify what we do and what we do not do when it comes to people’s data and our intelligence efforts." Lawmakers attending the signing ceremony were Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., said a White House pool report. FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez also attended, as did U.S. Trade Representative Mike Froman and David O'Sullivan, EU ambassador to the U.S.