Legislation to protect consumer privacy doesn’t have to hamper innovation in the tech sector, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) said Thursday at a Senate hearing on privacy featuring testimony from Apple, Google and Facebook. In fact protecting consumer privacy would boost consumer confidence, Kerry said.“I reject the notion that privacy protection is the end of innovation, it absolutely doesn’t have to be and isn’t,” Kerry said, adding that he believed privacy protections could help the marketplace by building trust with consumers that their personal data was being protected.
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