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
Identity Theft Victims Assistance Act of 2002 (Cantwell)
CDT Notes: 3/20/02: Committee on Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information
hearings held.
To restore standards to protect the privacy of individually identifiable health information that were weakened by the August 2002 modifications, and for other purposes.
(Markey)
Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act (Barr)
To protect and enhance consumer privacy, and for other purposes.
(Stearns)
CDT Notes: - 9/24/02: Hearing held in House Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade & Consumer Protection Testimony
- CDT Analysis
Online Personal Privacy Act (Hollings)
Homeland Security Information Sharing Act (Chambliss)
National Homeland Security and Combating Terrorism Act of 2002 (Lieberman)
To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish standards for State programs for the issuance of drivers' licenses and identification cards, and for other purposes.
(Moran)
A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to require that agencies, in promulgating rules, take into consideration the impact of such rules on the privacy of individuals, and for other purposes.
(Cleland)
To provide criminal penalties for providing false information in registering a domain name on the Internet.
(Coble)
CDT Notes: 5/22/02: Subcommittee oversight
hearing on the accuracy of the Whois database.
A bill to facilitate the protection of minors using the Internet from material that is harmful to minors, and for other purposes.
(Landrieu)
A bill to require the consent of an individual prior to the sale and marketing of such individual's personally identifiable information, and for other purposes.
(Feinstein)
A bill to amend section 222 of the Communications Act of 1934 to require affirmative written consent by a customer to the release of customer proprietary network information.
(Wellstone)
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 (Sensenbrenner)
Uniting and Strengthening America Act (Sensenbrenner)
CDT Notes: CDT has prepared several
in-depth analyses of this bill and its companions.
Uniting and Strengthening America Act (Daschle)
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that machine-readable privacy policies and the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project specification, commonly known as the P3P specification, are important tools in protecting the privacy of Internet users, and for other purposes.
(Smith)
To protect consumer privacy.
(Sawyer)
A bill to establish a commission to conduct a study of government privacy practices, and for other purposes,
(Thompson)
To amend title 18, United States Code, to punish the placing of sexual explicit photographs on the Internet without the permission of the persons photographed.
(Green)
To ensure confidentiality with respect to medical records and health care-related information, and for other purposes.
(Greenwood)
To establish the Commission for the Comprehensive Study of Privacy Protection.
(Hutchinson)
Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2001 (Grassley)
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)
To protect the privacy of consumers who use the Internet.
(Eshoo)
To require customer consent to the provision of wireless call location information.
(Frelinghuysen)
A bill to increase parental involvement and protect student privacy.
(Dodd)
To amend section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the use of the text, graphic, or image messaging systems of wireless telephone systems to transmit unsolicited commercial messages.
(Holt)
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 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)
A bill to provide for the disclosure of the collection of information through computer software, and for other purposes.
(Edwards)
