The undersigned organizations appreciate the opportunity to respond to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) request for comment on the proposal to establish a multistakeholder process to develop voluntary codes of conduct for consumer data privacy.

We commend the Administration for introducing its Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, which sets out baseline principles that the Administration believes should govern the handling of personal data. We hope that these principles will lay a strong foundation for codes of conduct regarding how consumers’ personal information should be collected and used. We are also pleased that the Administration has called for comprehensive privacy legislation in its white paper, Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Innovation in the Global Digital Economy.