Georgetown University Law Center Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW 2014 High Technology, Consumer Privacy, and U.S. National Security : Hearing Before the Subcomm. On Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade of the H. Comm. On Energy and Commerce, 113th Cong., September 17, 2014 (Remarks by Professor Laura K. Donohue, Geo. U. L. Center) Laura K. Donohue Georgetown University Law Center,
[email protected] SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2497022 This paper can be downloaded free of charge from: http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cong/119 This open-access article is brought to you by the Georgetown Law Library. Posted with permission of the author. Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cong Part of the Consumer Protection Law Commons, Law and Economics Commons, and the National Security Law Commons HIGH TECHNOLOGY, CONSUMER PRIVACY, AND U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY Professor Laura K. Donohue, J.D., Ph.D.* Written Remarks Prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade “ Cross border Data Flows: Could Foreign Protectionism Hurt U.S. Jobs?” Sept. 17, 2014 I. INTRODUCTION Documents released over the past year detailing the National Security Agency’s telephony metadata collection program and interception of international content under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) directly implicated U.S. high technology companies in government surveillance.1 The result was an immediate, and detrimental, impact on U.S. firms, the economy,