Microsoft President Brad Smith on Digital Privacy
On May 24, 2017, Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith told the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism why Congress needs to update digital privacy and data access laws for today’s cross-border cloud computing technology. Read about & watch his testimony.
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The United States leads the world in technology innovation, but only one in four K-12 schools teach computer science education, jeopardizing our leadership. We can and must do better!
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Senate Hearing Highlights Need to Update Data Privacy and Access Laws
On May 24, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism held a hearing on a critical digital policy issue, “Law Enforcement Access to Data Stored Across Borders: Facilitating Cooperation and ...
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Voices for Innovation on Capitol Hill
Voices for Innovation members came to Washington, DC to meet with their members of Congress and the House Small Business Committee and advocate for 21st century technology policies.
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The Need to Modernize Data Privacy Laws for the Cloud Computing Age Current digital privacy law—the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)—was enacted in 1986, before the invention of the Web and the emergence of global cloud computing. Simply put, U.S. law no longer (...)
The United States leads the world in technology innovation, but our leadership is jeopardized by insufficient support for computer science education in our nation’s K-12 schools. Today, even as our economy is increasingly driven by information technology, only one of four K-12 schools (...)
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