G:\M\16\WALBER\WALBER_066.XML ..................................................................... (Original Signature of Member) H. R. ll 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION To amend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. WALBERG introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on llllllllllllll A BILL To amend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Preventing Real Online 5 Threats Endangering Children Today’’ or the ‘‘PRO6 TECT Kids Act’’. g:\VHLC\010820\010820.242.xml January 8, 2020 (5:34 p.m.) VerDate Mar 15 2010 17:34 Jan 08, 2020 Jkt 000000 (753403 2) PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 C:\USERS\BJYOUNG\APPDATA\ROAMING\SOFTQUAD\XMETAL\7.0\GEN\C\WALBER_066 G:\M\16\WALBER\WALBER_066.XML 2 1 SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRI- 2 VACY PROTECTION ACT OF 1998. 3 The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 4 (15 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) is amended— 5 (1) by inserting ‘‘, including a service provided 6 through a mobile application,’’ after ‘‘online service’’ 7 each place it appears; 8 (2) in section 1302— 9 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘age of 10 13’’ and inserting ‘‘age of 16’’; 11 (B) in paragraph (8)— 12 (i) in the matter preceding subpara- 13 graph (A), by inserting ‘‘including a serv- 14 ice provided through a mobile application’’ 15 after ‘‘collected online’’; 16 (ii) by redesignating subparagraphs 17 (F) and (G) as subparagraphs (H) and (I), 18 respectively; and 19 (iii) by inserting after subparagraph 20 (E) the following: 21 ‘‘(F) precise geolocation information; 22 ‘‘(G) biometric information;’’; and 23 (C) by adding at the end the following: 24 ‘‘(13) MOBILE term ‘mo- 25 bile application’ means a software program that 26 runs on the operating system of— g:\VHLC\010820\010820.242.xml January 8, 2020 (5:34 p.m.) VerDate Mar 15 2010 APPLICATION.—The 17:34 Jan 08, 2020 Jkt 000000 (753403 2) PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 C:\USERS\BJYOUNG\APPDATA\ROAMING\SOFTQUAD\XMETAL\7.0\GEN\C\WALBER_066 G:\M\16\WALBER\WALBER_066.XML 3 1 ‘‘(A) a mobile telephone; 2 ‘‘(B) a tablet computer; or 3 ‘‘(C) a similar portable computing device 4 that transmits data over a wireless connection. 5 ‘‘(14) BIOMETRIC term 6 ‘biometric information’ means the record of any 7 unique, immutable biological attribute or measure- 8 ment generated by automatic measurements of a 9 consumer’s biological characteristics, including fin- 10 gerprints, genetic information, iris or retina pat- 11 terns, facial characteristics, or hand geometry, that 12 are used to uniquely and durably authenticate the 13 identity of a consumer when such consumer accesses 14 a physical location, device, system, or account. 15 ‘‘(15) PRECISE GEOLOCATION INFORMATION.— 16 The term ‘precise geolocation information’ means 17 historical or real-time location information, or infer- 18 ences drawn from other information, capable of iden- 19 tifying the location of an individual or a consumer 20 device of an individual with specificity sufficient to 21 identify street level location information or an indi- 22 vidual’s or device’s location within a range of 1,640 23 feet or less.’’; and 24 (3) in section 1303(b)— 25 (A) in paragraph (1)— g:\VHLC\010820\010820.242.xml January 8, 2020 (5:34 p.m.) VerDate Mar 15 2010 INFORMATION.—The 17:34 Jan 08, 2020 Jkt 000000 (753403 2) PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 C:\USERS\BJYOUNG\APPDATA\ROAMING\SOFTQUAD\XMETAL\7.0\GEN\C\WALBER_066 G:\M\16\WALBER\WALBER_066.XML 4 1 (I) in subparagraph (A)(I), by insert- 2 ing 3 ‘‘website’’; mobile application’’ after 4 (ii) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by strik- 5 ing ‘‘use or maintenance in retrievable 6 form, or future online collection’’ and in- 7 serting ‘‘collection or use’’; and 8 (B) by amending paragraph (3) to read as 9 follows: 10 11 ‘‘(3) CONTINUATION OF SERVICE.—The regula- tions shall— 12 ‘‘(A) prohibit the operator of a website, on- 13 line service, or mobile application from termi- 14 nating service provided to a child whose parent 15 has refused, under the regulations prescribed 16 under paragraph (1)(B)(ii), to permit the oper- 17 ator’s further collection or use of personal in- 18 formation from that child, or has required such 19 operator to delete such information; and 20 ‘‘(B) require the operator, upon request of 21 a parent whose child has provided personal in- 22 formation to that website or, online service, in- 23 cluding a service provided through a mobile ap- 24 plication, upon proper identification of that par- g:\VHLC\010820\010820.242.xml January 8, 2020 (5:34 p.m.) VerDate Mar 15 2010 ‘‘or 17:34 Jan 08, 2020 Jkt 000000 (753403 2) PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 C:\USERS\BJYOUNG\APPDATA\ROAMING\SOFTQUAD\XMETAL\7.0\GEN\C\WALBER_066 G:\M\16\WALBER\WALBER_066.XML 5 1 ent, to delete any personal information collected 2 from such child.’’. 3 SEC. 3. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION STUDY. 4 (a) IN GENERAL.— 5 (1) Not later than 2 years after the date of en- 6 actment of this Act, the Commission shall conduct 7 a study on the knowledge standard found in section 8 1303(a)(1) of the Children’s Online Privacy Protec- 9 tion Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. 6501 et seq). 10 11 (2) In conducting such study, the Commission shall— 12 (A) consider whether the existing knowl- 13 edge standard is still appropriate for accom- 14 plishing the goals of this Act; 15 (B) consider the affect changing such 16 knowledge standard will have on children’s on- 17 line privacy, including whether it will increase 18 or decrease such privacy; 19 (C) consider the feasibility of complying 20 with any change to such knowledge standard; 21 (D) whether any federal agency has stud- 22 ied such change; and 23 (E) whether any think tank or privacy ad- 24 vocacy or digital rights group has studied such 25 a change. g:\VHLC\010820\010820.242.xml January 8, 2020 (5:34 p.m.) VerDate Mar 15 2010 17:34 Jan 08, 2020 Jkt 000000 (753403 2) PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 C:\USERS\BJYOUNG\APPDATA\ROAMING\SOFTQUAD\XMETAL\7.0\GEN\C\WALBER_066 G:\M\16\WALBER\WALBER_066.XML 6 1 (3) Based on the study, the Commission shall— 2 (A) develop recommendations as to wheth- 3 er the knowledge standard should be changed; 4 (B) develop recommendations as to what 5 the new knowledge standard should be, if ap- 6 propriate; 7 (C) provide the basis for its recommenda- 8 tion to change the knowledge standard, if ap- 9 propriate; 10 (D) cite examples of federal agency studies 11 on changing the knowledge standard; and 12 (E) cite examples of think tank or privacy 13 advocacy or digital rights group studies on 14 changing the knowledge standard. 15 (b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Following completion of 16 the study pursuant to subsection (a), the Commission shall 17 report the results and recommendations to the Committee 18 on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives 19 and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor20 tation of the Senate. g:\VHLC\010820\010820.242.xml January 8, 2020 (5:34 p.m.) VerDate Mar 15 2010 17:34 Jan 08, 2020 Jkt 000000 (753403 2) PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 C:\USERS\BJYOUNG\APPDATA\ROAMING\SOFTQUAD\XMETAL\7.0\GEN\C\WALBER_066