ITI (the Information Technology Industry Council) has weighed in with its Policy Recommendations for a European Tech Agenda as the European Union that it says can help that future be a secure and prosperous one.
Those include embracing free trade, preserving technological sovereignty without excluding foreign entities, and relying on global, adopting industry-led standards rather than regulation-driven, overly prescriptive government standards, avoiding artifical boundaries on the use of data, pushing back on data localisation efforts (requiring that a member country’s citizens’ data be collected and stored in that country under local privacy laws), and a host of others.
It contains the tech trade group’s recommendations for helping to shape the EU’s “vision for a digital future…” as the EU pursues its Shaping Europe’s Digital Future initiative launched this month as a road map to Europe’s goal of investing in “connectivity, deep tech and human capital, as well as in smart energy and transport infrastructures,” with the security of those connected systems a key to that “digital transformation.”
ITI says the tech industry must be a constructive and active partner in…
