Last week I posted a series of comments on my blog, The Intangible Economy, on the questions posed by the Commerce Department's RFI on the Administration's Strategy for American Innovation (see here, here, here, here, here, and here.  On Friday, these comments were submitted to Commerce in the forms of a paper entitled Rethinking Innovation Policy and is available on the Athena Alliance website. The paper notes that the President's Strategy for American Innovation and Request for Comments/Request...

While consumers have a vocal advocate for increased privacy regulation in the federal government with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), they currently lack an advocate for reducing barriers to the free flow of information. To remedy this, the Department of Commerce, whose mission it is to advance economic growth, jobs and opportunities for all Americans, should become the champion of pro-innovation information policies, rather than focus on the more narrow issue of consumer privacy at the expense...

Following on the heels of the FTC’s report on privacy, the Department of Commerce released its much anticipated green paper on online data privacy on Thursday in a report titled Commercial Data Privacy and Innovation in the Internet Economy: A Dynamic Policy Framework. Below is a summary of the major recommendations in the report, as well as an overview of some big picture takeaways. The framework consists of five principal recommendations: Create a comprehensive set of Fair Information Practice...