BSA’s 50-State Advocacy program represents the enterprise software industry before state policymakers across the country, advancing policies that promote responsible innovation and a competitive digital economy. The program focuses on key state priorities including artificial intelligence, privacy and other emerging technology issues. BSA works closely with member companies and policymakers to advance practical, solutions-oriented approaches and ensure the software industry has a strong voice in state capitals nationwide.
MAR 17, 2026 | US
States that most effectively promote secure AI adoption in the private and public sectors will see the greatest economic benefits, stimulate further innovation, and deliver substantial economic gains across every industry sector.
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MAY 05, 2026 | US
BSA appreciates the opportunity to share insights from the enterprise software sector on AI and SB 189.
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MAY 29, 2026 | US
Twenty-two states have enacted comprehensive consumer privacy laws that create new rights for consumers, impose obligations on businesses that handle consumers’ personal data, and create new mechanisms to enforce those laws. Twenty-one of those states adopt the same basic structural model to protect consumer privacy. Some of those states have added greater substantive protections to that basic structural model while other states have adapted the same model to create narrower substantive protections, as reflected in the chart below. In contrast, California adopted a legislative model that creates a new state privacy agency charged with issuing regulations on more than 20 topics, including on issues addressed by statute in other states.
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JUL 30, 2026 | GLOBAL
This document explains the history of the controller/processor distinction and demonstrates how widely that distinction has been adopted in global privacy laws.
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JUN 09, 2026 | GLOBAL
BSA's primer on AI roles and responsibilities describes the AI value chain, which includes developers, integrators, and deployers, and emphasizes a key policy principle: responsibilities should fit the role of the company.
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