User:Avery Jensen/Legislation
Text of letter at Wikimania
On Saturday, August 12, 2017 11:38 AM,...
Hi, our Wikimedia DC group has been tracking legislation related to internet safety. We are particularly interested in the Online Safety Modernization Act H.R.3067.
If anyone is interested, there is a two-page powerpoint here:
https://averyjensen.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/legislation.pptx
and further info on my WikiMania user pages:
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Avery_D_Jensen/Legislation
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Avery_D_Jensen/Online_Safety_Modernization_Act_of_2017
Hope to see you today (Sat 8/12) at the lunch meeting from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in room #722 on the 7th floor.
Summary of Legislation for Wikimania
115th Congress (2017-2018)
- Online Safety Modernization Act – H.R.3067 text
- Servicemember Intimate Privacy Protection Act – H.R.1588 Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14] (Introduced 03/16/2017) text
- PRIVATE Act – H.R.2052 Rep. McSally, Martha [R-AZ-2] (Introduced 04/06/2017) – To amend the Uniform Code of Military Justice to prohibit the wrongful broadcast or distribution of intimate visual images; PRIVATE Act S.1296 - Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] (Introduced 06/06/2017) text
114th Congress (2016-2017)
- Intimate Privacy Protection Act of 2016 H.R.5896 (against non-consensual porn) [2] – Rep. Jackie Speier – text
113th Congress (2015 – 2016)
IPPA
More about Online Safety Modernization Act – H.R.3067 — 115th Congress (2017-2018)
Endorsements
- National District Attorneys Association [4]
- Cyber Civil Rights Association [5]
- Women's Media Center [6]
- National Network to End Domestic Violence [7]
- Facebook, Twitter, the National Organization for Women, the National Democratic Institute, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Feminist Majority, and Girls, Inc. [8]
Text of bill (LOC)
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3067
Introduced by Representatives Katherine Clark (D-MA), Susan Brooks (R-IN) and Patrick Meehan (R-PA)
Sources
- The Verge, "A new internet safety bill would ban swatting, doxxing, and sextortion all at once". https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/29/15888764/katherine-clark-online-safety-modernization-act-bill-announced
“$4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 through 2022.” for “National Resource Center on Cybercrimes Against Individuals to provide resource information, training, and technical assistance to improve the capacity of…”
- Engadget: "Proposed bill would make doxxing a federal crime: It would also address swatting, revenge porn and sextortion". https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/29/online-safety-modernization-act-outlaws-doxxing-swatting/#comments
“The bill is supported by Facebook; it’s not clear what other tech or social media companies are on board.”
See also
- Intimate Privacy Protection Act (2016 proposal)
- Danielle Citron (law professor and author specializing in cyber harassment, information privacy law, cyber law, administrative law, and civil rights) Twitter.
- Kamala Harris "Kamala created the largest e-crime unit in the nation and a privacy enforcement and protection unit within the California Attorney General’s office." [9]
- Soraya Chemaly Still Too Female @schemaly (Twitter)
- The New Yorker, "The Attorney Fighting Revenge Porn: Carrie Goldberg is a pioneer in the field of sexual privacy, using the law to defend victims of hacking, leaking, and other online assaults". http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/05/the-attorney-fighting-revenge-porn
- U.S. Rep Katherine Clark (D-Mass) http://katherineclark.house.gov/index.cfm/2016/8/clark-proposals-to-combat-online-abuse Twitter
Powerpoint here.