ITI Names Legislative Counsel

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Shannon Taylor has joined the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) as director of government affairs and legislative counsel.

Taylor has been counsel for commerce, manufacturing and trade for the House Energy & Commerce Committee, where her issues included privacy, data breach and patent assertion entity demand letters.

Before that, she was counsel for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

ITI members include Apple, Dell, Yahoo!, eBay, Sony, Motorola, and a host of Web, tech and other companies.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.