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From the Washington Post, this timely article, Primer: Children, The Internet and Pornography, tracks the checkered past six years of laws specifically intended to protect children on the Web. Unfortunately, no links to the enacted laws and proposed legislation are provided, so here they are: the Children’s Internet Protection Act; the Child Online Protection Act; …
An update on SB 1, the California Financial Information Privacy Act: it received approval from the Senate in a vote of 23 to 6 on March 3. See my previous post on the bill here.
On March 4, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) introduced the Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations, or BALANCE Act, that mirrors the text of H. R. 5522, the Digital Choice and Freedom Act of 2002, introduced by Lofgren October 2, 2002. From yesterday’s press release: “This legislation would ensure that consumers are able …
From Rep. Boucher’s website, this Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act Supporter List (H.R. 107). On 2/14/2003, the bill was referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
A new bill introduced in the Oregon Senate on February 25, Senate Bill 656, “Directs public libraries to install filtering software on computer terminals that provide access to Internet in children’s areas or near children’s areas.”
Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) announced “a cell phone user bill of rights…. aimed at improving wireless service and making competition an ingrained part of the wireless industry. Schumer’s bill would mandate number portability between companies; create a box with contract and service information on solicitations and contracts, and authorize the FCC to monitor cell phone …
On Monday, the Senate passed, by a vote of 84-0, the Prosecutorial Remedies and Tools Against the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003, or the ‘PROTECT Act’ (S. 151). For reference, please see Senate Rpt. 108-002 – The PROTECT Act of 2003. This legislation will assist law enforcement in their efforts to track and …
From the Capital Hill newspaper Roll Call, you may access web links to state legislatures, including audio and or video proceedings as available.
The Virginia House yesterday passed and adopted HB 2426 – Posting certain information on the Internet; prohibitions, in response to growing public concerns about privacy and ID theft. The bill “provides that beginning July 1, 2003, no state agency or court clerk shall post on a state agency or court-controlled website any document that contains …
Minnesota’s pioneering Internet privacy legislation, S.F. No. 2908, that regulates spam, protects the privacy of Internet consumers and regulates the dissemination of personal data about Internet users, is under attack just as it is scheduled to take effect March 1. AOL and other industry groups are seeking to introduce new legislation to “limit the responsibility …
According to Mary Alice Baish, Associate Washington Affairs Representative, American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), there are more than 30 organizations who support providing public access to all CRS reports on the Internet. Please see Senate Resolution 54, submitted by Senators Leahy, Lieberman, and Harkin, “…to make Congressional Research Service, CRS, reports, and other Senate …
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) released a strategic plan (PDF) detailing the goals and objectives of the Total Information Awareness Program, as required by the Senate as part of the Defense Authorization Act of 2003.
