BSA | The Software Alliance (“BSA”), the leading advocate for the global software industry, welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the United Kingdom’s Comprehensive Spending Review. Fully embracing the digital economy further transforms and grows the economy, helps build social and economic resilience and recovery, and enables global trade. BSA offers concrete recommendations on the role that the software industry can play to support the following priorities of the UK’s Comprehensive Spending Review.  Read more

Joint BSA - Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) Letter to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) regarding Independent National Security Legislation Monitor (INSLM) report on the Telecommunications and other Legislation Amendment (Access and Assistance) Act 2018 (TOLA). The AIIA and BSA support the Australian Government’s desire to have more powerful tools to aid in the fight against criminal and terrorist activities. Both our associations have engaged in multiple public consultations, urging the adoption of safeguards to ensure that the authorities under the TOLA are not exercised to the detriment of privacy, security and trust in the digital economy.   Read more

BSA | The Software Alliance (BSA) again thanks the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) for the opportunity to testify on 13 May 2020. As a result of our testimony during the public hearing for the inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (International Production Orders) Bill 2020 (the Bill), we took several questions on notice that we would like to address. Read more