Groups Ask NTIA for More Privacy Meeting Access

In a letter to the National Telecommunications & Information Administration, a dozen activist groups have called for better remote participation in the July 12 stakeholder meeting on the Administration's privacy Bill of Rights.

NTIA, which is hosting the talks, has agreed to have staffer act as proxies for those not able to attend in person to relay questions and comments, and the meeting is being webcast -- but the groups, which include the ACLU, Center for Digital Democracy, Consumers Union, say that is inadequate. "For the multistakeholder process to be credible, civil society must be able to participate in the meetings to the fullest extent possible, and that means two-way, contemporaneous communication," they wrote.