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Consumer Privacy Legislation (109th)
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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


Veterans Identity and Credit Security Act of 2006 (Buyer)
To amend title 44, United States Code, to strengthen requirements related to security breaches of data involving the disclosure of sensitive personal information. (Davis)
A bill to protect information relating to consumers, to require notice of security breaches, and for other purposes. (Bennett)
Undertaking Spam, Spyware, And Fraud Enforcement With Enforcers beyond Borders Act of 2005 (Smith)
To require owners of Internet websites to destroy obsolete data containing personal information. (Markey)
To make the sale or fraudulent transfer of telephone records a criminal offense. (Boswell)
To amend title 18, United States Code, to strengthen protections for law enforcement officers and the public by providing criminal penalties for the fraudulent acquisition or unauthorized disclosure of phone records. (Smith)
To prohibit the obtaining of customer information from telecommunications carriers by false pretenses, and the sale or disclosure of such records obtained by false pretenses. (Blackburn)
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prevent the selling of telephone customer proprietary network information. (Lipinski)
A bill to make the stealing and selling of telephone records a criminal offense. (Schumer)
A bill to make the sale or fraudulent transfer of telephone records a criminal offense. (Durbin)
Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2005 (Specter)
To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide for secure financial data, and for other purposes. (LaTourette)
To protect consumers by requiring reasonable security policies and procedures to protect computerized data containing personal information, and to provide for nationwide notice in the event of a security breach. (Stearns)
A bill to strengthen data protection and safeguards, require data breach notification, and further prevent identity theft. (Smith)
A bill to establish procedures for the protection of consumers from misuse of, and unauthorized access to, sensitive personal information contained in private information files maintained by commercial entities engaged in, or affecting, interstate commerce, provide for enforcement of those procedures by the Federal Trade Commission, and for other purposes. (Shelby)
A bill to prevent and mitigate identity theft; to ensure privacy; and to enhance criminal penalties, law enforcement assistance, and other protections against security breaches, fraudulent access, and misuse of personally identifiable information. (Specter)
To expand the protections for sensitive personal information in Federal law to cover the information collection and sharing practices of unregulated information brokers, to enhance information security requirements for consumer reporting agencies and information brokers, and to require consumer reporting agencies, financial institutions, and other entities to notify consumers of data security breaches involving sensitive consumer information, and for other purposes. (Bean)
A bill to require agencies and persons in possession of computerized data containing sensitive personal information, to disclose security breaches where such breach poses a significant risk of identity theft. (Sessions)
Internet Spyware (I-SPY) Prevention Act of 2005 (Goodlatte)
A bill to provide for comprehensive identity theft prevention. (Schumer)
A bill to require Federal agencies, and persons engaged in interstate commerce, in possession of data containing personal information, to disclose any unauthorized acquisition of such information. (Feinstein)
A bill to regulate the unauthorized installation of computer software, to require clear disclosure to computer users of certain computer software features that may pose a threat to user privacy, and for other purposes. (Burns)
To regulate information brokers and protect individual rights with respect to personally identifiable information. (Markey)
A bill to regulate information brokers and protect individual rights with respect to personally identifiable information. (Nelson)
To establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards. (Davis)
The Anti-Phishing Act of 2005 (Leahy)
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2005 (Snowe)
02/16/2005: Held at the desk.
CDT Notes: On 2/17/2005 S.306 passed the Senate and was referred to the House.
REAL ID Act (Sensenbrenner)
CDT Notes: On 2/10/2005 HR 218 passed the House and was referred to the Senate.
Privacy Act of 2005 (Feinstein)
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to limit the misuse of social security numbers, to establish criminal penalties for such misuse, and for other purposes. (Feinstein)
A bill to require Federal agencies, and persons engaged in interstate commerce, in possession of electronic data containing personal information, to disclose any unauthorized acquisition of such information. (Feinstein)
To protect users of the Internet from unknowing transmission of their personally identifiable information through spyware programs, and for other purposes. (Bono)
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