Today, NextGov ran an SIIA op-ed highlighting our view that industry — not Congress — is best positioned to develop effective practices that ensure consumer confidence.
SIIA recently joined an application privacy working group through the Future of Privacy Forum, a Washington think tank. With this group, we are bringing forth the expertise of our member companies to develop voluntary guidelines that will spread best practices to all participants in the industry. In addition, the FPF project website, supported by SIIA and others, makes available a variety of tools to help app developers manage issues of data collection and use.
Mark MacCarthy, Vice President, Public Policy at SIIA, directs SIIA’s public policy initiatives in the areas of intellectual property enforcement, information privacy, cybersecurity, cloud computing and the promotion of educational technology.