SOFTWARE & INFORMATION INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION

Budget/Appropriations

Education funding with respect to education technology, broadband, as well as increasing funding for k-12 and higher education.

TargetedSENATE · HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES · Office of Management & Budget (OMB) · Education, Dept of

Computer Industry

HR 8152 - ADDPA and other privacy legisaltion, focusing on private rights of action, prohibited data practices and First Amendment-related issues with regard to regulating publicly available information. Opposed changes to competition law, including S.2992 (The American Innovation and Choice Online Act), H.R.3618 (The American Choice Online and Innovation Act), S. 673 (The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act of 2021) as well as S.2710/H.R.5017 The Open App Markets Act) due to effect on innovation, first amendment concerns, national security, and consumer privacy. Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) implementation as well as student data privacy w/r/t draft but unintroduced legislation Patent subject matter eligibility and its application to computer software (no bill introduced); legislation regarding overruling the Finitiv rule at PTO. Artificial intelligence and algorithmic bias Online content moderation Expressed information industry views about data flows in the context of the EU Data Act EU-US Trade & Technology Council Indo Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity Global CBPR Forum EU Artificial Intelligence Act Kids and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act (S.3663) - expressed concern over legislation's overbreadth and interoperability with existing education-related privacy regimes Cybersecurity legislation including measures relating to open source softwareHR 4350 - NDAA - Overbreadth of bar on federal contractors S. 4913- opposed singling out open source software as problems occur in other models Replacing the privacy shield and preserving cross-border data flows in the wake of Schrems II