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If you believe that dealers should control their data and access to it then show your support by joining OSA.

During 2007 we plan to work with our members and other industry participants to create comprehensive data security guidelines and a certification program.  Your support is critical to creating programs that represent the perspectives of the whole industry from Dealers to OEMS to DMS providers to third parties providing products and services.

With dealer's needs in mind, OSA members stand behind five key principles:

• Dealers should control who accesses their data and how it's used.
• Industry participants should work together to ensure dealer data is secure.
• Third parties that have dealer permission to utilize a dealer’s data should be able to access the data through their own efforts or through the services of an independent company.
• DMS companies should facilitate interaction with all data available to a DMS user by providing technologically advanced means to interact with (read and write) that data, either through a robust set of APIs, system functionality, or direct access to the database.
• Industry participants, including DMS companies, that provide essential services required to facilitate access to, and interactions with, dealer-permissioned data should be reasonably compensated.