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Broad Industry Coalition Calls for Federal Privacy Law

Congress should pass a federal privacy law, which would benefit startup compliance and the application of AI throughout the economy, industry groups from several sectors wrote the Senate Commerce and House Commerce committees Tuesday.

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Signees included the American Advertising Federation, Business Software Alliance, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Consumer Technology Association, CTIA, Interactive Advertising Bureau, NetChoice, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and USTelecom.

“Congress should adopt a federal privacy framework that fully preempts state laws related to data privacy and security and establish a uniform privacy standard,” they wrote.

They recommended a bill with data deletion rights for individuals, data processing transparency and reasonable data security standards.