The text of the Children's Privacy Protection and Parental Empowerment Act is available at the Epic "Children's Privacy" web site: http://epic.org/privacy/kids/ Read it before you trash it! ------------ Summary: Rep. Bob Franks (R-NJ) and Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) have introduced the Children's Privacy Protection and Parental Empowerment Act. The bill would establish fair information practices for personal information about kids and curb recent abuses in the direct marketing industry. The Children's Privacy Protection and Parental Empowerment Act would: Prohibit the sale or purchase of personal information about children without parental consent. Require list brokers and solicitors to disclose to parents, upon request, the source and content of personal information on file about their children. Require list brokers to disclose to parents, upon request, the names of persons or entities to whom they have distributed personal information on that parent's child. Prohibit prisoners and convicted sex criminals from processing the personal information of children. Prohibit any exchange of children's personal information that one has a reason to believe will be used to harm or abuse a child. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lauren Amy Gelman gelmanl@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu George Washington University gelman@epic.org Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program gelman@acm.org