ITI Wants Best Privacy Practices Baseline From NIST; BSA Hopes for 'Useful Tool'

The National Institute of Standards and Technology should offer best practices (see 1812170032) so companies can demonstrate compliance with various national privacy “obligations,” Information Technology Industry Council commented Monday. Develop a road map with the framework, providing accessible language for “identifying, assessing, managing and communicating privacy risks,” ITI asked. The U.S. is at a “critical” moment for evaluating consumer privacy protections, said BSA|The Software Alliance Policy Director Shaundra Watson, and hopefully NIST’s effort leads to “a useful tool that will help companies strengthen their privacy practices.”