President Barack Obama signed a bipartisan bill into law Friday...
President Barack Obama signed a bipartisan bill into law Friday to deter online sharing and possession of child pornography. The Child Protection Act (HR-6063) aims to increase penalties for those possessing child porn, give law enforcement officers tools to combat…
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online child porn, and reauthorizes the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force for five years. The legislation was authored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. The law is a watered-down version of HR-1981, the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act, which sparked bipartisan furor over the its potential impact on consumer privacy and cybersecurity. HR-6063 differs from HR-1981 by omitting the provision that would require ISPs to retain data about consumer browsing habits.