Online Privacy Act of 2026
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Online Privacy Act of 2026, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors. The main policy domain is Criminal Justice, Finance, Civil Rights.
Who Benefits and How
law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section HEDA882CA4C974F53988A44A8C9CEB11E: 1. Short title; table of contents This Act may be cited as the Online Privacy Act of 2026. The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
- Section H25295F2670724ABD955990AFB52B62B4: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term behavioral personalization means the processing of the personal information of an individual, using an algorithm, model,...
- Section H81D8417BC54345A69AFB4B230532F1BE: 3. General provisions In this Act— any reference to information as being of or belonging to an individual shall be construed to mean that such information is...
- Section H08CE82CA579C495CA81EADFF0C02823B: 4. Limitation on disclosing nonredacted government records A government entity may not use a channel of interstate commerce to disclose the personal...
- Section H3DB10B2CF3EE4E10BEB2C839C3C164A3: 5. Criminal prohibition on doxxing Chapter 41 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 881.Disclosing of personal...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Online Privacy Act of 2026, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors.
Key Policy Areas
Criminal Justice, Finance, Civil Rights
Primary Purpose
This bill, Online Privacy Act of 2026, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in …
Introduced in House
Ms. Lofgren introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
a covered entity that— does not earn revenue from the sale of personal information
any information maintained by a person that, on its own or combined with other information, is linked or reasonably linkable to a specific individual. The term personal information does not include— publicly available information linked to an individual
any information maintained by a person that, on its own or combined with other information, is linked or reasonably linkable to a specific individual. The term personal information does not include— publicly available information linked to an individual
a category of products and services established by the Director under subsection (a)(1)(A)— for which the sum obtained by adding the number of users or estimated users of each product or service in such category is greater than 10,000,000
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