View CDT's Congressional Agenda for the 110th Congress (published January 22, 2007)
PFF/CDT Index to Child Safety and Content Regulation Bills
CDT Analysis of Safety & Content Bills in Congress
To prohibit the making, importation, exportation, distribution, sale, offer for sale, installation, or use of an information collection device without proper labeling or notice and consent.
(Holt)
To require the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe regulations to protect the privacy of personal information collected from and about individuals on the Internet, to provide greater individual control over the collection and use of that information, and for other purposes.
(Green)
A bill to provide for the disclosure of the collection of information through computer software, and for other purposes.
(Edwards)
Internet Integrity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2000 (Hatch)
A bill to protect the privacy of consumers who use the Internet.
(McCain)
A bill to protect the privacy of American consumers.
(Hollings)
CDT Notes: 10/3/00: Committee hearing held. CDT
testified.
A bill to require the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe regulations to protect the privacy of personal information collected from and about private individuals who are not covered by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 on the Internet, to provide greater individual control over the collection and use of that information, and for other purposes.
(Burns)
Privacy Commission Act (Hutchinson)
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the disclosure of electronic monitoring of employee communications and computer usage in the workplace.
(Canady)
CDT Notes: 9/6/00: Subcommittee hearing held. CDT
testified.
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the disclosure of electronic monitoring of employee communications and computer usage in the workplace.
(Canady)
To provide for the recognition of electronic signatures for the conduct of interstate and foreign commerce, to restrict the transmission of certain electronic mail advertisements, to authorize the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe rules to protect the privacy of users of commercial Internet websites, to promote the rapid deployment of broadband Internet services, and for other purposes.
(Boucher)
CDT Notes: Bill's main focus is
bandwidth ; also requires companies to post and comply with privacy policies on the web.
To amend title II of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect the integrity and confidentiality of Social Security account numbers issued under such title, to prohibit the establishment in the Federal Government of any uniform national identifying number, and to prohibit Federal agencies from imposing standards for identification of individuals on other agencies or persons.
(Paul)
A bill to strengthen control by consumers over the use and disclosure of their personal financial and health information by financial institutions, and for other purposes.
(Leahy)
To protect consumers from exorbitant fees for basic financial services, and for other purposes.
(Schakowsky)
A bill to amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to provide for a limitation on sharing of behavioral profiling information, and for other purposes.
(Shelby)
To establish a system for businesses engaged in electronic commerce to adopt, and certify their compliance with, internationally recognize principles concerning the collection, use, and dissemination of personal information, and for other purposes.
(Campbell)
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the applicability to operators of Internet Web sites of restrictions on the disclosure or records and other information relating to the use of such sites, and for other purposes.
(Jackson)
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the applicability to operators of Internet Web sites of restrictions on the disclosure or records and other information relating to the use of such sites, and for other purposes.
(Torricelli)
To require the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe regulations to protect the privacy of personal information collected from and about individuals who are not covered by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 on the Internet, to provide greater individual control over the collection and use of that information, and for other purposes.
(Frelinghuysen)
To prevent unfair and deceptive practices in the collection and use of personal information, and for other purposes.
(Markey)
A bill to establish the Privacy Protection Study commission to evaluate the efficacy of the Freedom of Information Act and the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 1996, to determine whether new laws are necessary, and to provide advice and recommendations.
(Kohl)
Collections of Information Antipiracy Act (Coble)
To prohibit Federal, State, and local agencies and private entities from transferring, selling, or disclosing personal data with respect to an individual to other agencies or entities without the express consent of the individual except in limited circumstances, and to require such agencies and entities to provide individuals with personal data maintained with respect to such indviduals.
(Hinchey)
A bill to give customers notice and choice about how their financial institutions share or sell their personally identifiable sensitive financial information, and for other purposes.
(Sarbanes)
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Gramm)
A bill to protect the privacy and constitutional rights of Americans, to establish standards and procedures regarding law enforcement access to location information, decryption assistance for encrypted communications and stored electronic information, and other private information, to affirm the rights of Americans to use and sell encryption products as a tool for protecting their online privacy, and for other purposes.
(Leahy)
To require insured depository institutions, depository institution holding companies, and insured credit unions to protect the confidentiality of financial information obtained concerning their customers, and for other purposes.
(Markey)
To regulate the use by interactive computer services of personally identifiable information provided by subscribers to such services.
(Vento)
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the sale of personal information about children without their parents' consent, and for other purposes.
(Franks)
To regulate the use by interactive computer services of Social Security account numbers and related personally identifiable information.
(Franks)