A Unified Industry Approach

Because many local governments fail to protect FOE, the private sector has decided a unified set of principles and procedures may provide at least a baseline set of protections. A few tech companies are now moving through the process under the facilitation of the Center for Democracy & Technology. It sounds like there's a very good chance that they may not even come to agreement. Unfortunately, without actually seeing the proposal (which is confidential), there's really not much to say. Guess I'll just have to wait and see.