Privacy

NTIA Announces First Multi-Stakeholder Meeting to Implement Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights

Published: Jun. 15, 2012

Updated: Oct. 05, 2020

In the February release of its Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights aimed at improving consumer privacy protections while preserving Internet growth, the Obama Administration requested as next steps that the NTIA convene all interested stakeholders to develop enforceable codes of conduct for different industries to implement the plan.

Today, the NTIA announced that it will convene the first multi-stakeholder meeting on July 12, 2012.  Based on input from interested stakeholders, the first meeting will focus on providing transparency in how consumer data is handled by mobile applications.

The NTIA explained that it proposed this topic for the first meeting given that mobile application privacy is “a privacy challenge that affects many consumers yet is discrete enough to be addressed in a reasonable period of time.”  The NTIA expects that the ideas and input presented at this first meeting, as well the process of creating a privacy code of conduct in the mobile industry, will inform efforts to create codes addressing privacy issues in other contexts.

The July 12 meeting will last from 9:30 am until 4:30 pm and will be held somewhere in the Washington, DC metro area.  The NTIA will release details on the venue no later than 15 days prior to the meeting.  The meeting is open to all interested stakeholders and will be webcast.  Individuals interested in attending the meeting or viewing the webcast should express their intent at http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ webform/july-12-2012-privacy-multistakeholder-meeting-expression-interest.