b'2021 ANNUAL REPORT two parallel efforts effectively expressed our views on this topic and are likely to have an impact on the trajectory of the SECs rulemaking. Privacy: Many privacy bills were proposed in Congress in 2021, but there was no real movement. The action was in the states. The California legislature passedthe first state genetic privacy law in the nation, which CFA supported. CFA once again successfully opposed a bill in the state of Washington on the grounds that it would provide inadequate privacy protections, but efforts by CFA and other groups to stop an extremely weak privacy bill in Virginia from being enacted were thwarted by strong support from the tech industry. CFA provided suggestions to a Virginia legislative working group for further action to improve that law. CFA also provided testimony on privacy bills in Florida and Massachusetts. In addition, CFA was invited to participate in working groups in Connecticut and Oregon to discuss possible privacy legislation in those states for 2022. On the federal front, CFA endorsed bills in Congress that would provide better privacy protection for children, create a new data protection agency, regulate data practices, and ban surveillance advertising. While prospects for progress on these bills remains dim at present, there are grounds for hope that the newly invigorated Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may initiate privacy rulemaking in 2022. CFA joined with other groups in petitioning the FTC to conduct a rulemaking on surveillance advertising and a broader rulemaking to address concerns about discriminatory use of consumers personal information. CFA also joined a coalition that was formed to promote the idea that surveillance advertising should be banned because of privacy and other concerns that it raises. CFA and other groups also focused on pressuring businesses to adopt more privacy-protective practices, calling on Facebook to cancel its plans to launch a version of Instagram for children, demanding that retailers refrain from using facial recognition technology, urging concert promoters not to use palm scanning to authenticate ticket holders, and meeting with companies to discuss privacy issues. Product Safety: CFA continued to lead efforts on both broad and product-specific safety issues. We worked closely with the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards (CSS), as Co-Chairs of the Coalition and as the leader of the lobby 2021 ANNUAL REPORT13'