A group of high-profile companies today announced that they would support congressional efforts to craft robust general privacy legislation. We were extremely pleased with the statement, which sends the clearest signal yet that substantial segments of industry and privacy advocates agree on the need to enact privacy protections to meet the challenges of the digital age.

Timed to coincide with today’s House hearing on privacy, the members of the Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum (CPL) issued a statement that calls for a process to create a national privacy law that protects consumers while allowing companies to make legitimate use of information. Eastman Kodak, eBay, Eli Lilly, Google, Hewlitt and Associates, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Procter & Gamble, Sun Microsystems and Symantec all signed onto the statement.

The statement is yet another reason to be optimistic about the upcoming congressional debate on consumer privacy. After half a decade of inactivity on the broad topic, Congress finally seems poised to seriously work towards creating meaningful protections for consumers.

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