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113th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1700
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
November 14, 2013Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Kirk, and Mr. Blumenthal) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
A BILL
To amend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of
1998 to extend, enhance, and revise the provisions relating to collection, use,
and disclosure of personal information of children, to establish certain other
protections for personal information of children and minors, and for other
purposes.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the
Do Not Track Kids Act of
2013.
2.
Findings
Congress finds the following:
(1) Since the enactment of the Children’s
Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, the World Wide Web has changed
dramatically, with the creation of tens of millions of websites, the
proliferation of entirely new media platforms, and the emergence of a diverse
ecosystem of services, devices, and applications that enable users to connect
wirelessly within an online environment without being tethered to a desktop
computer.
(2) The explosive growth of the Internet
ecosystem has unleashed a wide array of opportunities to learn, communicate,
participate in civic life, access entertainment, and engage in commerce.
(3) In addition to these significant benefits,
the Internet also presents challenges, particularly with respect to the efforts
of entities to track the online activities of children and minors and to
collect, use, and disclose personal information about them, including their
geolocation, for commercial purposes.
(4) Children and teens are visiting numerous
companies’ websites, and marketers are using multimedia games, online quizzes,
and mobile phone and tablet applications to create ties to children and
teens.
(5) According to a study by the Wall Street
Journal in 2010, websites directed to children and teens were more likely to
use cookies and other tracking tools than sites directed to a general
audience.
(6) This study examined 50 popular websites for
children and teens in the United States and found that these 50 sites placed
4,123 cookies, beacons, and other tracking tools on the test computer used for
the study.
(7) This is 30 percent greater than the number
of such tracking tools that were placed on the test computer in a similar study
of the 50 overall most popular websites in the United States, which are
generally directed to adults.
(8) Children and teens
lack the cognitive ability to distinguish advertising from program content and
to understand that the purpose of advertising is to persuade them, making them
unable to activate the defenses on which adults rely.
(9) Children and teens
are less able than adults to understand the potential long-term consequences of
having their information available to third parties, including advertisers, and
other individuals.
(10) According to
Common Sense Media and the Center for Digital Democracy, 90 percent of teens
have used some form of social media, 75 percent have a social networking site,
and 51 percent check their social networking site at least once a day.
(11) Ninety-one
percent of parents and 91 percent of adults believe it is not okay for
advertisers to collect information about a child’s location from that child’s
mobile phone.
(12) Ninety-four
percent of parents and 91 percent of adults agree that advertisers should
receive the parent’s permission before putting tracking software on a child’s
computer.
(13) Ninety-six
percent of parents and 94 percent of adults expressed disapproval when asked if
it is okay for a website to ask children for personal information about
their friends.
(14) Eighty-eight percent of parents would
support a law that requires search engines and social networking sites to get
users’ permission before using their personal information.
(15) A Commonsense Media/Zogby poll found that
94 percent of parents and 94 percent of adults believe individuals should have
the ability to request the deletion, after a specific period of time, of all of
their personal information held by an online search engine, social networking
site, or marketing company.
(16) According to a Pew/Berkman Center poll, 69
percent of parents of teens who engage in online activity are concerned about
how that activity might affect their children’s future academic or employment
opportunities.
(17) Eighty-one percent of parents of teens who
engage in online activity say they are concerned about how much information
advertisers can learn about their children’s online activity.
3.
Online
collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of children
(a)
Definitions
Section 1302 of the Children’s Online
Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. 6501) is amended—
(1) by amending
paragraph (2) to read as follows:
(2)
Operator
The term operator—
(A) means any person who, for commercial
purposes, in interstate or foreign commerce, operates or provides a website on
the Internet, online service, online application, or mobile application, and
who—
(i) collects or maintains, either directly or
through a service provider, personal information from or about the users of
such website, service, or application;
(ii) allows another person to collect personal
information directly from users of such website, service, or application (in
which case the operator is deemed to have collected the information); or
(iii) allows users of such website, service, or
application to publicly disclose personal information (in which case the
operator is deemed to have collected the information); and
(B) does not include
any nonprofit entity that would otherwise be exempt from coverage under section
5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C.
45).
;
(2) in paragraph
(4)—
(A) by amending
subparagraph (A) to read as follows:
(A) the release of personal information for any
purpose, except where such information is provided to a person other than an
operator who provides support for the internal operations of the website,
online service, online application, or mobile application of the operator and
does not disclose or use that information for any other purpose;
and
;
and
(B) in subparagraph
(B), by striking website or online service and inserting
website, online service, online application, or mobile
application;
(3) in paragraph
(8)—
(A) by amending
subparagraph (G) to read as follows:
(G) information concerning a child or the
parents of that child (including any unique or substantially unique identifier,
such as a customer number) that an operator collects online from the child and
combines with an identifier described in subparagraphs (A) through
(G).
;
(B) by redesignating
subparagraphs (F) and (G) as subparagraphs (G) and (H), respectively;
and
(C) by inserting after
subparagraph (E) the following new subparagraph:
(F) information (including an Internet protocol
address) that permits the identification of an individual, the computer of an
individual, or any other device used by an individual to access the Internet or
an online service, online application, or mobile
application;
;
(4) by striking
paragraph (10) and redesignating paragraphs (11) and (12) as paragraphs (10)
and (11), respectively; and
(5) by adding at the
end the following new paragraph:
(12)
Online, online
service, online application, mobile application, directed to
children
The terms
online, online service, online
application, mobile application, and directed to
children shall have the meanings given such terms by the Commission by
regulation. Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of the
Do Not Track Kids Act of 2013,
the Commission shall promulgate, under section 553 of title 5, United States
Code, regulations that define such terms broadly enough so that they are not
limited to current technology, consistent with the principles articulated by
the Commission regarding the definition of the term Internet in
its statement of basis and purpose on the final rule under this title
promulgated on November 3, 1999 (64 Fed. Reg. 59891). The definition of the
term online service in such regulations shall include broadband
Internet access service (as defined in the Report and Order of the Federal
Communications Commission relating to the matter of preserving the open
Internet and broadband industry practices (FCC 10–201, adopted by the
Commission on December 21,
2010)).
.
(b)
Online
collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of
children
Section 1303 of the
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. 6502) is
amended—
(1) by striking the
heading and inserting the following: Online collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of
children.;
(2) in subsection
(a)—
(A) by amending
paragraph (1) to read as follows:
(1)
In
general
It is unlawful for an
operator of a website, online service, online application, or mobile
application directed to children, or an operator having actual knowledge that
personal information being collected is from a child, to collect personal
information from a child in a manner that violates the regulations prescribed
under subsection (b).
;
and
(B) in paragraph
(2)—
(i) by
striking of such a website or online service; and
(ii) by
striking subsection (b)(1)(B)(iii) and inserting
subsection (b)(1)(C)(iii); and
(3) in subsection (b)—
(A) by amending
paragraph (1) to read as follows:
(1)
In
general
Not later than 1 year
after the date of the enactment of the Do Not
Track Kids Act of 2013, the Commission shall promulgate, under
section 553 of title 5, United States Code, regulations to require an operator
of a website, online service, online application, or mobile application
directed to children, or an operator having actual knowledge that personal
information being collected is from a child—
(A) to provide clear
and conspicuous notice in clear and plain language of the types of personal
information the operator collects, how the operator uses such information,
whether the operator discloses such information, and the procedures or
mechanisms the operator uses to ensure that personal information is not
collected from children except in accordance with the regulations promulgated
under this paragraph;
(B) to obtain verifiable parental consent for
the collection, use, or disclosure of personal information of a child;
(C) to provide to a
parent whose child has provided personal information to the operator, upon
request by and proper identification of the parent—
(i) a
description of the specific types of personal information collected from the
child by the operator;
(ii) the opportunity
at any time to refuse to permit the further use or maintenance in retrievable
form, or future collection, by the operator of personal information collected
from the child; and
(iii) a means that is
reasonable under the circumstances for the parent to obtain any personal
information collected from the child, if such information is available to the
operator at the time the parent makes the request;
(D) not to condition
participation in a game, or use of a website, service, or application, by a
child on the provision by the child of more personal information than is
reasonably required to participate in the game or use the website, service, or
application; and
(E) to establish and
maintain reasonable procedures to protect the confidentiality, security, and
integrity of personal information collected from
children.
;
(B) in paragraph (2)—
(i) in
the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking paragraph
(1)(A)(ii) and inserting paragraph (1)(B); and
(ii) in
subparagraph (A), by inserting or to contact a different child
after to recontact the child;
(C) by amending paragraph (3) to read as
follows:
(3)
Continuation of
service
The regulations shall
prohibit an operator from discontinuing service provided to a child on the
basis of refusal by the parent of the child, under the regulations prescribed
under paragraph (1)(C)(ii), to permit the further use or maintenance in
retrievable form, or future collection, by the operator of personal information
collected from the child, to the extent that the operator is capable of
providing such service without such
information.
;
and
(D) by adding at the
end the following:
(4)
Rule for
treatment of users of websites, services, and applications directed to
children
An operator of a
website, online service, online application, or mobile application that is
directed to children shall treat all users of such website, service, or
application as children for purposes of this title, except as permitted by the
Commission by a regulation promulgated under this
title.
.
(c)
Administration
and applicability of Act
Section 1306 of the Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. 6505) is amended—
(1) in subsection
(b)—
(A) in paragraph (1),
by striking , in the case of and all that follows and inserting
the following: by the appropriate Federal banking agency with respect to
any insured depository institution (as such terms are defined in section 3 of
such Act (12 U.S.C. 1813));; and
(B) by striking
paragraph (2) and redesignating paragraphs (3) through (6) as paragraphs (2)
through (5), respectively; and
(2) by adding at the
end the following new subsection:
(f)
Telecommunications
carriers and cable operators
(1)
Enforcement by
FTC
Notwithstanding section
5(a)(2) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 45(a)(2)), compliance
with the requirements imposed under this title shall be enforced by the
Commission with respect to any telecommunications carrier (as defined in
section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 153)).
(2)
Relationship to
other law
To the extent that
sections 222, 338(i), and 631 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 222;
338(i); 551) are inconsistent with this title, this title
controls.
.
4.
Targeted
marketing to children or minors
(a)
Acts
prohibited
It is unlawful
for—
(1) an operator of a website, online service,
online application, or mobile application directed to children, or an operator
having actual knowledge that personal information being collected is from a
child, to use, disclose to third parties, or compile personal information for
targeted marketing purposes without verifiable parental consent; or
(2) an operator of a website, online service,
online application, or mobile application directed to minors, or an operator
having actual knowledge that personal information being collected is from a
minor, to use, disclose to third parties, or compile personal information for
targeted marketing purposes without the consent of the minor.
(b)
Regulations
Not later than 1 year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Commission shall promulgate, under section 553 of
title 5, United States Code, regulations to implement this section.
5.
Digital Marketing
Bill of Rights for Teens and Fair Information Practices Principles
(a)
Acts
prohibited
It is unlawful for
an operator of a website, online service, online application, or mobile
application directed to minors, or an operator having actual knowledge that
personal information being collected is from a minor, to collect personal
information from a minor unless such operator has adopted and complies with a
Digital Marketing Bill of Rights for Teens that is consistent with the Fair
Information Practices Principles described in subsection (b).
(b)
Fair Information
Practices Principles
The Fair
Information Practices Principles described in this subsection are the
following:
(1)
Collection
limitation principle
Except
as provided in paragraph (3), personal information should be collected from a
minor only when collection of the personal information is—
(A) consistent with the context of a particular
transaction or service or the relationship of the minor with the operator,
including collection necessary to fulfill a transaction or provide a service
requested by the minor; or
(B) required or
specifically authorized by law.
(2)
Data quality
principle
The personal
information of a minor should be accurate, complete, and kept up-to-date to the
extent necessary to fulfill the purposes described in subparagraphs (A) through
(D) of paragraph (3).
(3)
Purpose
specification principle
The
purposes for which personal information is collected should be specified to the
minor not later than at the time of the collection of the information. The
subsequent use or disclosure of the information should be limited to—
(A) fulfillment of the
transaction or service requested by the minor;
(B) support for the
internal operations of the website, service, or application, as described in
section 312.2 of title 16, Code of Federal Regulations;
(C) compliance with
legal process or other purposes expressly authorized under specific legal
authority; or
(D) other
purposes—
(i) that
are specified in a notice to the minor; and
(ii) to
which the minor has consented under paragraph (7) before the information is
used or disclosed for such other purposes.
(4)
Retention
limitation principle
The
personal information of a minor should not be retained for longer than is
necessary to fulfill a transaction or provide a service requested by the minor
or such other purposes specified in subparagraphs (A) through (D) of paragraph
(3). The operator should implement a reasonable and appropriate data disposal
policy based on the nature and sensitivity of such personal information.
(5)
Security
safeguards principle
The
personal information of a minor should be protected by reasonable and
appropriate security safeguards against risks such as loss or unauthorized
access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.
(6)
Openness
principle
(A)
In
general
The operator should maintain a general policy of openness
about developments, practices, and policies with respect to the personal
information of a minor. The operator should provide each minor using the
website, online service, online application, or mobile application of the
operator with a clear and prominent means—
(i) to
identify and contact the operator, by, at a minimum, disclosing, clearly and
prominently, the identity of the operator and—
(I) in the case of an
operator who is an individual, the address of the principal residence of the
operator and an email address and telephone number for the operator; or
(II) in the case of
any other operator, the address of the principal place of business of the
operator and an email address and telephone number for the operator;
(ii) to
determine whether the operator possesses any personal information of the minor,
the nature of any such information, and the purposes for which the information
was collected and is being retained;
(iii) to
obtain any personal information of the minor that is in the possession of the
operator from the operator, or from a person specified by the operator, within
a reasonable time after making a request, at a charge (if any) that is not
excessive, in a reasonable manner, and in a form that is readily intelligible
to the minor;
(iv) to
challenge the accuracy of personal information of the minor that is in the
possession of the operator; and
(v) if
the minor establishes the inaccuracy of personal information in a challenge
under clause (iv), to have such information erased, corrected, completed, or
otherwise amended.
(B)
Limitation
Nothing
in this paragraph shall be construed to permit an operator to erase or
otherwise modify personal information requested by a law enforcement agency
pursuant to legal authority.
(7)
Individual
participation principle
The
operator should—
(A) obtain consent
from a minor before using or disclosing the personal information of the minor
for any purpose other than the purposes described in subparagraphs (A) through
(C) of paragraph (3); and
(B) obtain affirmative
express consent from a minor before using or disclosing previously collected
personal information of the minor for purposes that constitute a material
change in practice from the original purposes specified to the minor under
paragraph (3).
(c)
Regulations
Not later than 1 year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Commission shall promulgate, under section 553 of
title 5, United States Code, regulations to implement this section, including
regulations further defining the Fair Information Practices Principles
described in subsection (b).
6.
Online collection
of geolocation information of children and minors
(a)
Acts
prohibited
(1)
In
general
It is unlawful for an
operator of a website, online service, online application, or mobile
application directed to children or minors, or an operator having actual
knowledge that geolocation information being collected is from a child or
minor, to collect geolocation information from a child or minor in a manner
that violates the regulations prescribed under subsection (b).
(2)
Disclosure to
parent or minor protected
Notwithstanding paragraph (1), neither
an operator nor the operator’s agent shall be held to be liable under any
Federal or State law for any disclosure made in good faith and following
reasonable procedures in responding to a request for disclosure of geolocation
information under subparagraph (C)(ii)(III) or (D)(ii)(III) of subsection
(b)(1).
(b)
Regulations
(1)
In
general
Not later than 1 year
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission shall promulgate,
under section 553 of title 5, United States Code, regulations that require an
operator of a website, online service, online application, or mobile
application directed to children or minors, or an operator having actual
knowledge that geolocation information being collected is from a child or
minor—
(A) to provide clear and conspicuous notice in
clear and plain language of any geolocation information the operator collects,
how the operator uses such information, and whether the operator discloses such
information;
(B) to establish
procedures or mechanisms to ensure that geolocation information is not
collected from children or minors except in accordance with regulations
promulgated under this paragraph;
(C) in the case of collection of geolocation
information from a child—
(i) prior to
collecting such information, to obtain verifiable parental consent; and
(ii) after collecting
such information, to provide to the parent of the child, upon request by and
proper identification of the parent—
(I) a
description of the geolocation information collected from the child by the
operator;
(II) the opportunity
at any time to refuse to permit the further use or maintenance in retrievable
form, or future collection, by the operator of geolocation information from the
child; and
(III) a means that is reasonable under the
circumstances for the parent to obtain any geolocation information collected
from the child, if such information is available to the operator at the time
the parent makes the request; and
(D) in the case of collection of geolocation
information from a minor—
(i) prior to collecting such information, to
obtain affirmative express consent from such minor; and
(ii) after collecting
such information, to provide to the minor, upon request—
(I) a
description of the geolocation information collected from the minor by the
operator;
(II) the opportunity
at any time to refuse to permit the further use or maintenance in retrievable
form, or future collection, by the operator of geolocation information from the
minor; and
(III) a means that is reasonable under the
circumstances for the minor to obtain any geolocation information collected
from the minor, if such information is available to the operator at the time
the minor makes the request.
(2)
When consent not
required
The regulations
promulgated under paragraph (1) shall provide that verifiable parental consent
under subparagraph (C)(i) of such paragraph or affirmative express consent
under subparagraph (D)(i) of such paragraph is not required when the collection
of the geolocation information of a child or minor is necessary, to the extent
permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information to law
enforcement agencies or for an investigation on a matter related to public
safety.
(3)
Continuation of
service
The regulations
promulgated under paragraph (1) shall prohibit an operator from discontinuing
service provided to—
(A) a child on the basis of refusal by the
parent of the child, under subparagraph (C)(ii)(II) of such paragraph, to
permit the further use or maintenance in retrievable form, or future online
collection, of geolocation information from the child by the operator, to the
extent that the operator is capable of providing such service without such
information; or
(B) a minor on the basis of refusal by the
minor, under subparagraph (D)(ii)(II) of such paragraph, to permit the further
use or maintenance in retrievable form, or future online collection, of
geolocation information from the minor by the operator, to the extent that the
operator is capable of providing such service without such information.
(c)
Inconsistent
State law
No State or local
government may impose any liability for commercial activities or actions by
operators in interstate or foreign commerce in connection with an activity or
action described in this section that is inconsistent with the treatment of
those activities or actions under this section.
7.
Removal of
content
(a)
Acts
prohibited
It is unlawful for
an operator of a website, online service, online application, or mobile
application to make publicly available through the website, service, or
application content or information that contains or displays personal
information of children or minors in a manner that violates the regulations
prescribed under subsection (b).
(b)
Regulations
(1)
In
general
Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Commission shall promulgate, under section 553 of title 5, United
States Code, regulations that require an operator—
(A) to the extent technologically feasible, to
implement mechanisms that permit a user of the website, service, or application
of the operator to erase or otherwise eliminate content or information
submitted to the website, service, or application by such user that is publicly
available through the website, service, or application and contains or displays
personal information of children or minors; and
(B) to take appropriate steps to make users
aware of such mechanisms and to provide notice to users that such mechanisms do
not necessarily provide comprehensive removal of the content or information
submitted by such users.
(2)
Exception
The
regulations promulgated under paragraph (1) may not require an operator or
third party to erase or otherwise eliminate content or information that—
(A) any other provision of Federal or State law
requires the operator or third party to maintain; or
(B) was submitted to the website, service, or
application of the operator by any person other than the user who is attempting
to erase or otherwise eliminate such content or information, including content
or information submitted by such user that was republished or resubmitted by
another person.
(3)
Limitation
Nothing
in this section shall be construed to limit the authority of a law enforcement
agency to obtain any content or information from an operator as authorized by
law or pursuant to an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
8.
Enforcement and
applicability
(a)
Enforcement by
the Commission
(1)
In
general
Except as otherwise provided, this Act and the
regulations prescribed under this Act shall be enforced by the Commission under
the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.).
(2)
Unfair or
deceptive acts or practices
Subject to subsection (b), a violation of
this Act or a regulation prescribed under this Act shall be treated as a
violation of a rule defining an unfair or deceptive act or practice prescribed
under section 18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C.
57a(a)(1)(B)).
(3)
Actions by the
Commission
Subject to
subsection (b), and except as provided in subsection (d)(1), the Commission
shall prevent any person from violating this Act or a regulation prescribed
under this Act in the same manner, by the same means, and with the same
jurisdiction, powers, and duties as though all applicable terms and provisions
of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) were incorporated
into and made a part of this Act, and any person who violates this Act or such
regulation shall be subject to the penalties and entitled to the privileges and
immunities provided in the Federal Trade Commission Act.
(b)
Enforcement by
certain other agencies
Notwithstanding subsection (a), compliance
with the requirements imposed under this Act shall be enforced as
follows:
(1) Under section 8 of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1818) by the appropriate Federal banking agency, with
respect to an insured depository institution (as such terms are defined in
section 3 of such Act (12 U.S.C. 1813)).
(2) Under the Federal
Credit Union Act (12 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) by the National Credit Union
Administration Board, with respect to any Federal credit union.
(3) Under part A of
subtitle VII of title 49, United States Code, by the Secretary of
Transportation, with respect to any air carrier or foreign air carrier subject
to such part.
(4) Under the Packers
and Stockyards Act, 1921 (7 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) (except as provided in section
406 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 226; 227)) by the Secretary of Agriculture, with
respect to any activities subject to such Act.
(5) Under the Farm
Credit Act of 1971 (12 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.) by the Farm Credit Administration,
with respect to any Federal land bank, Federal land bank association, Federal
intermediate credit bank, or production credit association.
(c)
Enforcement by
State attorneys general
(1)
In
General
(A)
Civil
actions
In any case in which
the attorney general of a State has reason to believe that an interest of the
residents of that State has been or is threatened or adversely affected by the
engagement of any person in a practice that violates this Act or a regulation
prescribed under this Act, the State, as parens patriae, may bring a civil
action on behalf of the residents of the State in a district court of the
United States of appropriate jurisdiction to—
(i) enjoin that
practice;
(ii) enforce
compliance with this Act or such regulation;
(iii) obtain damages,
restitution, or other compensation on behalf of residents of the State;
or
(iv) obtain such other
relief as the court may consider to be appropriate.
(B)
Notice
(i)
In
general
Before filing an action under subparagraph (A), the
attorney general of the State involved shall provide to the Commission—
(I) written notice of
that action; and
(II) a copy of the
complaint for that action.
(ii)
Exemption
(I)
In
general
Clause (i) shall not apply with respect to the filing of
an action by an attorney general of a State under this paragraph, if the
attorney general determines that it is not feasible to provide the notice
described in that clause before the filing of the action.
(II)
Notification
In
an action described in subclause (I), the attorney general of a State shall
provide notice and a copy of the complaint to the Commission at the same time
as the attorney general files the action.
(2)
Intervention
(A)
In
general
On receiving notice under paragraph (1)(B), the
Commission shall have the right to intervene in the action that is the subject
of the notice.
(B)
Effect of
intervention
If the Commission intervenes in an action under
paragraph (1), it shall have the right—
(i) to
be heard with respect to any matter that arises in that action; and
(ii) to
file a petition for appeal.
(3)
Construction
For
purposes of bringing any civil action under paragraph (1), nothing in this Act
shall be construed to prevent an attorney general of a State from exercising
the powers conferred on the attorney general by the laws of that State
to—
(A) conduct
investigations;
(B) administer oaths
or affirmations; or
(C) compel the
attendance of witnesses or the production of documentary and other
evidence.
(4)
Actions by the
Commission
In any case in
which an action is instituted by or on behalf of the Commission for violation
of this Act or a regulation prescribed under this Act, no State may, during the
pendency of that action, institute an action under paragraph (1) against any
defendant named in the complaint in the action instituted by or on behalf of
the Commission for that violation.
(5)
Venue; Service
of Process
(A)
Venue
Any
action brought under paragraph (1) may be brought in the district court of the
United States that meets applicable requirements relating to venue under
section 1391 of title 28, United States Code.
(B)
Service of
process
In an action brought under paragraph (1), process may be
served in any district in which the defendant—
(i) is
an inhabitant; or
(ii) may
be found.
(d)
Telecommunications
carriers and cable operators
(1)
Enforcement by
FTC
Notwithstanding section
5(a)(2) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 45(a)(2)), compliance
with the requirements imposed under this Act shall be enforced by the
Commission with respect to any telecommunications carrier (as defined in
section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 153)).
(2)
Relationship to
other law
To the extent that
sections 222, 338(i), and 631 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 222;
338(i); 551) are inconsistent with this Act, this Act controls.
9.
Rule for
treatment of users of websites, services, and applications directed to children
or minors
An operator of a
website, online service, online application, or mobile application that is
directed to children or minors shall treat all users of such website, service,
or application as children or minors (as the case may be) for purposes of this
Act, except as permitted by the Commission by a regulation promulgated under
this Act.
10.
Definitions
(a)
In
general
In this Act:
(1)
Minor
The
term minor means an individual over the age of 12 and under the
age of 16.
(2)
Targeted
marketing
The term targeted marketing means
advertising or other efforts to market a product or service that are directed
to a specific individual or device—
(A) based on the
personal information of the individual or a unique identifier of the device;
and
(B) as a result of use by the individual, or
access by the device, of a website, online service, online application, or
mobile application.
(b)
Terms defined by
Commission
In this Act, the
terms directed to minors and geolocation information
shall have the meanings given such terms by the Commission by regulation. Not
later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission
shall promulgate, under section 553 of title 5, United States Code, regulations
that define such terms broadly enough so that they are not limited to current
technology, consistent with the principles articulated by the Commission
regarding the definition of the term Internet in its statement of
basis and purpose on the final rule under the Children’s Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) promulgated on November 3, 1999
(64 Fed. Reg. 59891).
(c)
Other
definitions
The definitions
set forth in section 1302 of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of
1998 (15 U.S.C. 6501), as amended by section 3(a), shall apply in this Act,
except to the extent the Commission provides otherwise by regulations issued
under section 553 of title 5, United States Code.
11.
Effective
dates
(a)
In
general
Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), this Act
and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the date that is 1
year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(b)
Authority To
promulgate regulations
The following shall take effect on the
date of the enactment of this Act:
(1) The amendments made by subsections (a)(5)
and (b)(3)(A) of section 3.
(2) Sections 4(b),
5(c), 6(b), and 7(b).
(3) Subsections (b)
and (c) of section 10.
(c)
Digital
Marketing Bill of Rights for Teens
Section 5, except for
subsection (c) of such section, shall take effect on the date that is 180 days
after the promulgation of regulations under such subsection.