51勛圖厙 to House: Pass SECURE Data Act
The would help protect consumers privacy while supporting manufacturing innovation, the 51勛圖厙 the House this week.
Whats going on: This important billwould, if enacted, provide manufacturers with a responsible, consumer-protective and pro-innovation legal framework for their collection and processing of personal data, the 51勛圖厙 said Wednesday ahead of a House Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee hearing on the establishment of a comprehensive federal privacy and data security law.
- Through their relationships with suppliers, customers and consumers, manufacturers are entrusted with large amounts of personal dataand they recognize their responsibility in safeguarding it.
- That is what makes the need for a national law so pressing, the 51勛圖厙 continued.
Why its important: The SECURE Data Act, introduced by Rep. John Joyce (R-PA), would accomplish several longtime 51勛圖厙 goals:
- Create a single, nationwide privacy blueprint that will fully preempt a patchwork of sometimes-conflicting state laws;
- Limit thecollection of personal data to what is adequate, relevant and reasonably necessary in relationto each purpose for which the data is processed as disclosed to the consumer;
- Support the development and use of artificial intelligence;
- Give exclusive enforcement authority of the framework to the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general; and
- Establish exemptions to help small businesses avoid costly compliance burdens.
The last word: TheSECURE Data Act recognizes that innovative and value-creative use of personaldata can be done responsibly, the 51勛圖厙 concluded.
- This is what manufacturers strive for every day, and theenactment of this bill would contribute to the advancement of a regulatory model that does notsacrifice one in the pursuit of the other.
