SUMMARY AS OF:
10/26/2000--Introduced.
Electronic Privacy Protection Act - Makes it unlawful for any person to
knowingly: (1) make, import, export, or sell an information collection device
for a computer unless it has a label disclosing to the computer's primary user
or to another operator who is not a primary user that it may transmit from the
computer information identifiable to it; (2) install an information collection
device on a computer that is not under general management and control of such
person, unless such person has given notice of such installation to the
computer's primary user and obtained the user's consent to such installation; or
(3) use an information collection device to transmit from a computer that is not
under general management and control of such person any information identifiable
to such computer to a primary user or to an operator who is not a primary user,
unless such person has given notice that the device may transmit such
information to the primary user and obtained the user's consent to such
transmission.
Sets forth civil penalties for violations of this Act.