Data privacy public comment period summary

Summary

The response to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's request for public comment on the multistakeholder process proposed in the Privacy and Innovation Blueprint was huge: 86 comments were submitted by major corporations, small companies, industry groups, consumer and privacy advocacy groups, civic groups, a couple of senators and the Council of Europe Secretariat.

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Abine, Inc., a Boston-based online privacy startup, provided NTIA with a tutorial on: online data collection; the data broker industry; and, "restrictions on developer innovation in the mobile privacy realm".

Topics to discuss

"Due to a lack of consumer awareness of the existence of data brokers, complex opt-outs, severe risks of harm, and an industry history of deceptive behavior, the current state of the data broker industry is unacceptable to consumers," argued Abine in recommending five areas for "clarification and investigation" through the multistakeholder process:

  1. data accuracy;
  2. opt-out definition and process;
  3. transparency of data sources;
  4. compliance and compliance assurance; and,
  5. special care for high-risk groups, such as law enforcement professionals and individuals who have been stalked, abused or had their identities stolen.

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