BSA in the News

Bloomberg Law, July 16, 2021. Companies have been “beefing up” privacy commitments in their data transfer contracts, according to Aaron Cooper, vice president of global policy for the software industry association BSA|The Software Alliance. Read more

Inside Cybersecurity, July 13, 2021. Meghan Pensyl, BSA’s policy manager, said BSA is “pleased to see that NTIA’s report recognized that different considerations for an SBOM apply to SaaS, for instance, which was a key part of BSA’s comments." Read more

Government Technology, July 8, 2021. The White House likely expects forthcoming EO-critical security standards to ripple out to the wider software landscape, beyond just government procurements, according to Henry Young, director of policy at the Software Alliance (BSA), a US-headquartered international software industry advocacy group. Read more

CRN India, July 1, 2021. BSA is calling on governments to pass legislation to require private sector companies to perform impact assessments on high-risk uses of AI technologies. To aid governments in this effort, BSA today released Confronting Bias: BSA’s Framework to Build Trust in AI. Read more