Congress should explicitly allow utilities, telecommunications companies, and landlords to report on-time payments to credit-reporting agencies.

To Do: Promote Alternative Credit Data

Data-driven insights can enable utilities and consumers to manage water use better, identify leaks sooner, and discover opportunities to use water more efficiently, writes the Center for Data Innovation.

How to Promote Smarter Water Use by Giving Consumers Access to Their Consumption Data

Congress should pass the e-KNOW Act and take other steps to enable ICT-based innovation in energy.

Innovation for Control: Smart Technology to Empower Energy Producers and Users

Better information on water use presents an opportunity for consumers to save money on their water bills while contributing to greater environmental sustainability, write Daniel Castro and Henry Sherwin of the Center for Data Innovation in Brink News.

Giving Consumers Access to Water Data Promotes Smarter Use

Congress should allow agencies to reach out to customers who affirmatively opt in to ask their views on the quality of government services and to give them timely information.

To Do: Allow Federal Agencies to Talk to “Customers”

To Do: Allow Federal Agencies to Talk to "Customers"

Congress should pass legislation requiring that all states collect corporate beneficial-ownership data and make it easily accessible to regulators and the public by publishing it online in open and machine-readable formats.

To Do: Require Corporate Data Transparency

ITIF's Center for Data Innovation has submitted written testimony to the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Legislative Branch regarding ways to improve the accessibility of legislative data.

Comments to House Appropriations Subcommittee on Legislative Data

Congress should pass legislation to create a national privacy framework that streamlines regulation, preempts state laws, establishes basic consumer data rights, and minimizes the impact on innovation.

To Do: Create a National Privacy Framework

State regulators should consider how they can unlock additional data sets to enable the development of sophisticated choice engines that help consumers make wiser purchasing decisions in economic areas where the market lacks transparency, writes Daniel Castro in Government Technology.

To Do: Let Consumers Access Utility Data

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