BSA in the News

Business Insider, July 15, 2020. Business Insider included BSA's President and CEO, Victoria Espinel in a guide of the most important people at the intersection of tech, politics, and policy in Washington. Read more

National Journal, July 14, 2020. “If either the Privacy Shield or standard contractual clauses are invalidated, it could have a significant economic impact because companies across industry sectors—including automotive, agriculture, financial, health care, manufacturing, and HR—rely on those mechanisms to transfer data,” said Kate Goodloe, policy director at BSA | The Software Alliance, a technology trade association. Read more

Bloomberg, July 14, 2020. At issue are so-called Standard Contractual Clauses and parts of the EU-US Privacy Shield, a trans-Atlantic data transfer pact adopted in 2016. Read more

Forbes, July 12, 2020. As the Business Software Alliance’s useful principles for “Building a Secure and Trustworthy IoT” say, security policies should “incentivise” security through the IoT life cycle. That means a different mindset and it's a mindset that sees the need for an infrastructure. Read more