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(Bloomberg) --Alphabet Inc.’s Google tapped its longtime privacy lawyer, Keith Enright, to become chief privacy officer as the company proposed policies for potential federal regulation of data. The Internet Association, an industry trade group that counts Google as a member, released its own principles earlier in September, and the powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce has also abandoned its usual distaste for regulation in proposing its own principles. Business groups are weighing in on privacy as tech companies face greater scrutiny in Washington over their data practices following revelations earlier this year that Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm, obtained information on millions of Facebook users without their permission, through the maker of a personality app.