White Papers
Internet Privacy: Overview and Pending Legislation - CRS
Overview Internet privacy issues generally encompass two types of concerns. One is the collection of personally identifiable information (PII) by website operators from visitors to government and commercial websites, or by software that is surreptitiously installed on a user's computer ("spyware") and transmits the information to someone else. The other is the monitoring of electronic mail and Web usage by the government or law enforcement officials, employers, or Internet Service Providers. This paper provides an overview of Internet privacy, tracks Internet privacy legislation pending before the 108th Congress, and describes the laws that were enacted in the 107th Congress.
| Publisher | Library of Congress | File Format | |
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| Date Published | July 2004 | Downloads | 3 |
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