Subcommittee on Privacy and Internet Policy

Overview
The Subcommittee on Privacy and Internet Policy is a subcommittee of the Committee on Technology of the National Science and Technology Council. The purpose of the Subcommittee is to develop strategic direction on information privacy policy that can guide legislative, regulatory and international policy consensus. The public policy direction established by the Subcommittee will be closely synchronized with privacy practices in federal departments and agencies, resulting in a broad, visible, forward-looking commitment to a common set of Internet policy principles across government.

Those core principles include facilitating transparency, promoting competition, empowering individuals to make informed and intelligent choices, strengthening multi-stakeholder governance models and building trusts in online environments. An affirmative articulation of such principles will also bolster U.S. efforts in trace and other economic fora by strengthening the development of the Internet as a platform for global trade and investment, particularly in areas where the U.S. has strong commercial comparative advantages such as the supply of network services and the delivery of content and applications.