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So many investigations, complaints, concerns, and media stories focus on America’s largest online platforms and marketplaces. They revolutionized global commerce...
Column: Breaking up Big Tech platforms would hurt small businesses
Far too often, policymakers and thought leaders focus only on the largest companies, the loudest voices and assertions of negative impacts or challenges when considering how to regulate the digital economy.
3C Urges Congress to Consider Small Businesses in International Trade Deals
The Connected Commerce Council (3C) is committed to ensuring that America’s small business community has easy and affordable access to digital platforms they need to increase profitably and efficiency in today’s global economy. Barrier-free trade and the free flow of cross-border data is essential to ensuring small businesses are able to reach new customers and…
3C Outlines National Data Privacy Framework to U.S. Senators
March 27, 2019 Sen. Jerry Moran, Chairman Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Ranking Member Subcommittee on Manufacturing, Trade, and Consumer Protection 512 Dirksen Senate Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Chairman Moran and Ranking Member Blumenthal: Thank you for convening a hearing to bring greater attention to “Small Business Perspectives on a Federal Data Privacy Framework.” Our organizations…
EXCLUSIVE: SURVEY SAYS! Small Business Owners Concerned New Privacy Regulations Will Hurt Bottom Line
California Consumer Protection Act. Washington Privacy Act. Data Dividends. Right of Action. Preemption. A flood of data regulation activity is sweeping across the country at all levels of government. All of this activity is intended to make things better, but it could actually make things worse particularly for the small business community. To raise awareness…
Legislators Must Consider Small Business When Drafting Privacy Regs
We live in an increasingly data-driven world. Collecting and analyzing data influences everything in our society, from the ads we see on TV to the products our favorite brands sell. However, despite data being at the core of the 21st century economy and the U.S. leading the world in technology and innovation, we lack a clear…
It’s Past Time For A National Data Privacy Law
It’s been nearly twenty years since the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recommended that Congress adopt legislation to ensure adequate protection of consumer privacy online. By the turn of the century, it was already apparent that self-regulation of online privacy wasn’t working, yet Congress failed to act. The parade of privacy scandals that have been grabbing media attention over the…
Microsoft bats for cross-border data flow, says international law needed
Tech giant Microsoft Thursday batted for cross-border data flows but asserted that the same needs to be protected through suitable international measures and standards both legal and technical. Microsoft India Group Head and Assistant General Counsel Corporate, External and Legal Affairs Keshav Dhakad said India’s IT sector companies, tech startups and developers may need access…
Is 2019 the year we stand up for protecting our privacy? Apple CEO Tim Cook says it’s time
“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” That’s what Scott McNealy, who was Sun Microsystems CEO then, stunningly proclaimed to a group of reporters and analysts at a press launch 20 years ago. And two decades later, we consumers still haven’t gotten over it, nor should we. Especially with one high-profile data rupture after another…
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