”It is time to move forward with the...
"It is time to move forward with the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights through legislation,” wrote Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., in a Thursday letter to the White House (http://bit.ly/1cexDaf). The House Judiciary Committee member had introduced a mobile privacy bill,…
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the Application, Privacy, Protection and Security (APPS) Act. He encouraged the White House to consider his bill “as a foundation for protecting consumers’ privacy on mobile devices.” The APPS Act was developed with public input, and would codify the NTIA’s mobile privacy guidelines developed with industry stakeholders, developers and public interest groups, he said. Johnson asked the White House to follow a similar process with its consumer privacy bill. He also encouraged the White House to “equip the FTC with the tools to operationalize the requirements and prohibitions created through a stakeholder-driven process."