3.0.0 3065 2023-03-08T20:12:35Z 2023-03-08T20:12:35Z Senate S 2021-10-26 117 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2021-10-26T17:00:09Z DATA Privacy Act 117 5807 HR 2021-11-02 Referred to the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce. Related bill CRS Promoting Digital Privacy Technologies Act 117 847 HR 2022-05-12 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Related bill CRS Promoting Digital Privacy Technologies Act 117 224 S 2021-02-04 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Related bill CRS 2021-10-26 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2021-10-26 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001113 Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV] Catherine Cortez Masto D NV N Commerce Accounting and auditing Administrative law and regulatory procedures Civil actions and liability Computer security and identity theft Computers and information technology Consumer affairs Employee hiring Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Inflation and prices Research administration and funding Right of privacy State and local government operations Commerce 00 2021-10-26 Introduced in Senate 2021-12-08T15:45:39Z Digital Accountability and Transparency to Advance Privacy Act or the DATA Privacy Act

This bill establishes information security requirements for businesses that collect, process, store, or disclose information relating to at least 50,000 people in a 12-month period. The bill applies to information that may be linked to a specific individual or a device associated with a specific individual. It does not cover data related to employment or publicly available government records.

Specifically, covered businesses must

  • provide consumers with accessible notice of the business's privacy practices with respect to such information; and
  • if meeting a certain revenue threshold, appoint a privacy officer to oversee compliance with the business's privacy practices.

The bill further requires the Federal Trade Commission to promulgate rules requiring covered businesses to

  • limit the purpose and amount of consumer data collection to reasonable business purposes, provide consumers with clear methods to opt-in and opt-out of such collection, and refrain from using such data for discriminatory purposes;
  • provide consumers with a method to access, revise, transmit, and delete collected information; and
  • establish information security standards based on the sensitivity and level of identifiability of the collected data, risk of exposure of such data, widely-accepted practices of securing such data, and cost and impact of implementing such practices.

Finally, the bill requires the National Science Foundation, and other agencies, to support research of technology that increases the privacy and confidentiality of collected data.

]]> DATA Privacy Act Display Title DATA Privacy Act Short Title(s) as Introduced DATA Privacy Act Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Digital Accountability and Transparency to Advance Privacy Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to establish national data privacy standards in the United States, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s3065is/xml/BILLS-117s3065is.xml 2021-10-26 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.