S. 1086 · 110th Congress
Cyber Safety for Kids Act of 2007
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Max Baucus
- Introduced
- 2007-04-11
- Latest action
- 2007-04-11 · Introduced in Senate
Summary
Cyber Safety for Kids Act of 2007 - Prohibits an operator of a commercial website from knowingly placing material that is harmful to minors on the website unless: (1) any page that is initially viewable does not include any such material; (2) access to the material is restricted to a specific set of individuals through an age verification requirement; and (3) the website's source code contains the content description tag assigned to the website by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
Requires he NTIA to develop a common content description tag that: (1) will warn and inform consumers regarding the presence of material that is harmful to minors; (2) will allow consumers to block or filter website access; and (3) is technologically capable of being embedded in the website's source code.
Requires a website operator, when registering or re-registering a website, to provide to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers certain information, including the content description tag.