The Technology 202: More than 200 companies are calling for a national privacy law. Here's an inside look at their proposal.

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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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