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Regulation of the Tech Sector
sf.citi supports a collaborative, multi-sector approach to regulating the tech industry. We are dedicated to maintaining San Francisco’s status as the world’s leading center of innovation by working with the City and other stakeholders to promote industry growth and success while balancing the needs of all San Franciscans and industry employees.
- sf.citi supports an agile permitting process to deploy new technologies and encourages more collaboration through public-private partnerships to generate reasonable regulations for future technologies
- sf.citi supports efforts to promote safe and reasonable research and development opportunities for emerging technology
- sf.citi supports establishing an economy-wide, uniform policy on data privacy across each level of government that strikes an appropriate balance between privacy and prosperity
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