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Recent News About Computer & Communications Industry Association
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Washington – Leaders of the House Committee on the Judiciary have reintroduced the Stopping Harmful Offers on Platforms by Screening Against Fakes in E-commerce Act (SHOP SAFE Act). Similar legislation was introduced last Congress and faced opposition from numerous businesses, civil society organizations, and trademark scholars.
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Washington – The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) have issued a letter signed by three other associations in anticipation of a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing. The hearing will address cybersecurity risks that have compromised numerous government agency servers. Microsoft’s Vice Chairman and President, Brad Smith, is expected to respond to questions regarding Microsoft's security incidents.
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The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has joined ten other trade associations in urging the Biden Administration to address Canada’s imminent digital services tax (DST). The associations have sent a letter calling for an investigation into the discriminatory aspects of the DST under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement (USMCA).
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The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has formally opposed New York State Legislature's proposed bill S. 7694A/A.8148A, citing concerns over the online age verification requirements it entails. The CCIA argues that these requirements would necessitate the collection of sensitive personal information from users and their parents, potentially cutting off access to online communities for many individuals.
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The Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust has scheduled a hearing on Wednesday titled “Strengthening U.S. Economic Leadership: The Role of Competition in Enhancing Economic Resiliency.” This hearing aims to examine how competition and robust supply chains contribute to economic resilience and the role of the current antitrust framework in achieving these goals in the U.S. and other major economies.
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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced a decision requiring certain streaming providers to allocate 5% of their revenue to funds supporting the production of Canadian content. This obligation, part of the implementation process for the Online Streaming Act, aims to generate $200 million CAD annually, primarily from U.S. suppliers.
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Washington – The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has urged Vermont Governor Phil Scott to veto H.121, a bill proposing the Vermont Data Privacy Act and an age-appropriate design code standard in the state. While the CCIA supports Vermont's aim to enhance data privacy protections and online safety for minors, it raises concerns about several components of H.121 that present constitutional and compliance issues.
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The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has filed an amicus brief at the Federal Circuit, urging it to uphold a ruling that Idaho's bad faith patent law is not preempted. The legislation was enacted to address the misuse of demand letters by patent trolls.
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During the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Commission meetings in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) raised concerns over Canada’s proposed digital services tax (DST). The DST, part of Bill C-59 nearing final legislative stages, is viewed as disproportionately harmful to U.S. companies and detrimental to digital exports and Canadian innovation. It is estimated that the DST could cost U.S. companies billions of dollars and result in significant job losses.
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A major new study on strengthening EU digital competitiveness explains why the EU has been less successful than the United States and China in growing its tech sector, and proposes actionable recommendations to close the widening gap. Solutions proposed by the authors include a temporary pause on new EU digital legislation and changes that would allow European pension and insurance funds to make tens of billions in new funding available to cash-strapped tech startups.
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The House Committee on Energy & Commerce, Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce is set to review a discussion draft of the "American Data Privacy Rights Act" (APRA) on Thursday, May 23. The draft includes elements from the Child Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) and the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). APRA seeks to establish baseline federal privacy protections aimed at minimizing data collection by private businesses, while COPPA 2.0 and KOSA focus specifically on younger users.
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Ahead of the Illinois General Assembly’s hearing on the proposed Journalism Preservation Act, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has submitted a coalition letter opposing SB 3591.
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The House Committee on Energy & Commerce, Subcommittee on Communications & Technology is set to hold a hearing on Wednesday to discuss the potential sunsetting of a law that has been pivotal in shaping the open internet as we know it today. Passed by Congress over two decades ago, Section 230, as it is commonly known, grants digital services the ability to moderate user content in response to online misconduct or for child protection.
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Ahead of the upcoming meeting of EU Telecommunications Ministers, a coalition of consumer groups, digital rights NGOs, and industry stakeholders has expressed serious concerns about the future EU regulatory framework for telecoms. The group argues that the European Commission's latest proposals risk undermining both the open internet and a competitive EU telecoms market.
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The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has submitted written comments to the New Jersey Assembly’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, voicing its opposition to three pieces of legislation that would regulate tools in employment decisions. The proposed bills – A. 3854, A. 3855, and A. 4030 – focus on automated decision-making, a tool that streamlines tasks that would otherwise be done manually.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer's Artificial Intelligence Working Group has endorsed a roadmap for AI policy, supporting a proposal that the federal government should allocate $32 billion towards AI. The spending proposal, which was unveiled at a news conference today, encompasses expenditures on private-public partnerships and an emergency call akin to Sputnik for R&D funding across various government agencies including Energy, Commerce, the National Science Foundation and NASA.
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The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has submitted comments on the Report on Digital Competition prepared by the Indian Ministry of Corporate Affairs’ Committee on Digital Competition Law. The report also includes a Draft Digital Competition Bill. CCIA urged Indian policymakers to carefully consider how the proposed regulations might affect consumers and India's burgeoning digital economy and startup ecosystem.
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The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has released two white papers that explore the history of cross-border data flow commitments and underscore the advantages of digital trade. These publications, titled “USTR’s Revisionist History on Data and Trade Agreements” and “Responding to the Myths Holding Back U.S. Action on Digital Trade,” address quotes from recent testimonies of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) during oversight hearings before the House Ways & Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee.
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The UK government has recently announced £2 billion in investments from the tech industry. The significant funding comes from decisions made by AI firm CoreWeave to establish its headquarters in the UK, and Siemens' choice to manufacture superconducting magnets for MRI scanners at a new facility in North Oxfordshire.
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The Computer & Communications Industry Association submitted comments (translation here) in response to Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL) consultation regarding investment into connectivity infrastructure.