https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-technology-202/2018/12/06/the-technology-202-more-than-200-companies-are-calling-for-a-national-privacy-law-here-s-an-inside-look-at-their-proposal/5c0819be1b326b60d128012e/
By Cat Zakrzewski
The Washington Post
December 6, 2018
A broad coalition of more than 200 retailers, banks and technology
companies is releasing new recommendations for national privacy
legislation today in a clear push to get out in front of lawmakers
promising to rein in their data collection practices in the next Congress.
The Business Roundtable's consumer privacy legislation framework, provided
exclusively to The Technology 202, calls on the United States to adopt a
national privacy law that would apply the same data collection
requirements to all companies regardless of sector -- while ramping up
Federal Trade Commission staffing and funding to enforce the rule. It
calls on companies to give consumers more control of their data and form a
national standard for breach notification.
"We see a real need to both protect consumers at a time when digital
services and the digital economy is so important and expanding, and at the
same time, making sure we’re advancing global competitiveness," Julie
Sweet, chief executive of Accenture North America, who chairs the Business
Roundtable's technology committee, tells me.
Members of the Business Roundtable include chief executives from companies
such as Apple, Walmart and Wells Fargo. And some of its top executives
such as J.P. Morgan chief executive Jamie Dimon and AT&T chief executive
Randall L. Stephenson will meet with policymakers including Ivanka Trump
and Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) at a CEO Innovation Summit in Washington
later today.
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