Microsoft Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co and other high-tech companies are preparing to push for data-privacy legislation next year to replace what they consider an outdated patchwork of state and federal laws that are inconsistent and burdensome.
“We think the time has come for a comprehensive privacy bill that would protect consumers’ personal information while still allowing the flow of information needed for commerce online,” Ira Rubinstein, a Microsoft lawyer, said this week.
Several recent high-profile breaches of consumers’ personal information have made consideration of privacy proposals more likely, Rubinstein said. The
Social Security numbers and medical data of approximately 930,000 people were compromised this June, for example, when computer equipment belonging to insurance provider American International Group Inc. was stolen.
Microsoft, HP and eBay Inc. earlier this year formed the Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum to lobby for privacy legislation. Google Inc., Intel Corp., Oracle Corp. and other companies later joined.
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