[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4814 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4814

To make illegal the sale, share, or transfer of information acquired on 
       the Internet with a pledge that it would not be released.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 10, 2000

  Mr. Bachus (for himself and Mr. Delahunt) introduced the following 
         bill; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To make illegal the sale, share, or transfer of information acquired on 
       the Internet with a pledge that it would not be released.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SALE OF PRIVATE INFORMATION.

    It shall be considered an unfair practice in or affecting commerce 
which violates section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 
45) for a person to sell on the Internet information such person 
acquired with a pledge that the information would be kept private and 
not released or for a person to share or transfer to another such 
information on the Internet.
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