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Effort To Craft Apps “Transparency Code” Shows Futility of Multi-Stakeholder Process

John M. Simpson

Obama Must Propose Legislation If He Cares About Privacy, Consumer Watchdog Says WASHINGTON, DC – A yearlong effort convened by the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA) demonstrates the futility of crafting codes of conduct through a voluntary multi-stakeholder process and the way participants were asked their opinion of the proposed code makes a mockery of the effort, Consumer Watchdog said today.

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