SIIA Makes Tech, IP Policy Recommendations to Trump
The Software & Information Industry Association urged President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday to recommend tech and IP policy legislation that will “promote the availability of data and the development of improved analytics techniques to extract value from information.” SIIA policy recommendations…
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“will be a useful roadmap for policymakers throughout your new Administration, enabling them to promote software and information technology to create broad-based growth, reduce social and economic inequality, and secure America’s global leadership,” President Ken Wasch said in a letter to Trump. SIIA emphasized the need for policies “that promote the use of data and analytics while protecting privacy and data security.” Rules that “protect people from harmful uses of information encourage the trusted disclosure of the information that is the fundamental input into data-driven innovation,” SIIA said. The Trump administration and Congress should “continue and expand efforts at the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to improve the quality of patents and should work with Congress to ensure carefully crafted balances in our copyright laws, which create the flexibility and strong protections necessary for innovation and creativity,” the group said.