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Every sector of our economy relies on software to succeed. Members of BSA | The Software Alliance provide cutting-edge cloud services, data analytics, manufacturing tools, cybersecurity solutions, and other digital capabilities to businesses of all sizes to generate new industries and new jobs. Modernized laws and policies in these priority issue areas will improve lives and support continued economic and job growth.

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Privacy

Controllers and Processors: A Longstanding Distinction in Privacy

OCT 17, 2023 | GLOBAL

This document explains the history of the controller/processor distinction and demonstrates how widely that distinction has been adopted in global privacy laws.

AI Privacy Cybersecurity Trade Cross-Border Data

BSA’s 2024 Global Cyber Agenda: Industry’s Priorities to Build a More Secure Future

OCT 13, 2023 | GLOBAL

BSA’s 2024 Global Cyber Agenda represents the enterprise technology sector’s cybersecurity priorities. It urges policies to build on a successful foundation of public-private partnerships, risk-based approaches, and internationally recognized standards and best practices. It recommends leveraging artificial intelligence to improve secure software development and improve cybersecurity risk management.

AI

Impact Assessments: A Key Part of AI Accountability

AUG 01, 2023 | GLOBAL

Impact assessments are an increasingly important tool to promote AI accountability. This new BSA two-pager explains how it can work in high-risk AI use cases to manage risk.

Cross-Border Data

Global Data Alliance: Cross-Border Data Policy Index

JUL 19, 2023 | GLOBAL

The Global Data Alliance's Cross-Border Data Policy Index offers a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the relative openness or restrictiveness of cross-border data policies across nearly 100 economies. Global economies are classified into four levels.

Trade

BSA’s Global Sustainability Principles

DEC 06, 2022 | GLOBAL

BSA and its members have worked to develop Global Sustainability Principles that outline how the enterprise software industry is working on sustainability and climate resilience.

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BSA Welcomes Asana as New Global Member

NOV 16, 2023 | GLOBAL

WASHINGTON – Asana, a leading enterprise work management platform, joined BSA | The Software Alliance, the leading advocate for the enterprise software industry before governments and in the international marketplace, as the association’s newest global member. Read more

AI Privacy

BSA: Bipartisan AI Bill Shows Growing Consensus on Countering Bias

NOV 15, 2023 | US

WASHINGTON – BSA | The Software Alliance issued the following the introduction of the bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Research, Innovation, and Accountability Act of 2023 by Sens. John Thune (R-SD), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Roger Wicker (R-MS), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM). Read more

AI

What Is the Impact of Sectoral Regulation of Cross-Border Data Flows on Companies?

NOV 07, 2023 | ASIA PACIFIC | INDIA

MediaNama, November 7, 2023. BSA | The Software Alliance Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy joins a panel conversation on adequacy, rulemaking, and sectoral regulations on cross-border data flows. Read more

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