Groups push White House on privacy bill of rights

A coalition of more than three dozen privacy groups is urging the White House to push for privacy legislation.

The alliance marked the two-year anniversary of President Barack Obama's "Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights," which he introduced in 2012, to call for a federal law codifying privacy protections in the United States. "The key to progress is the enactment by Congress of this important privacy framework," the coalition said in a letter to the White House sent. "Only enforceable privacy protections create meaningful safeguards." The groups that endorsed the letter included the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Library Association, the Center for Digital Democracy and Public Knowledge.