H.R. 4977 · 117th Congress
Better Cybercrime Metrics Act
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Sponsor
- Abigail Spanberger
- Introduced
- 2021-08-06
- Latest action
- 2021-12-08 · Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Summary
Better Cybercrime Metrics Act
This bill establishes various requirements to improve the collection of data related to cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime (cybercrime). Among the requirements
the Department of Justice (DOJ) must enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to develop a taxonomy for categorizing different types of cybercrime faced by individuals and businesses; DOJ must establish a category in the National Incident-Based Reporting System for collecting cybercrime reports from federal, state, and local officials; DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Bureau of the Census must include questions about cybercrime in the annual National Crime Victimization Survey; and the Government Accountability Office must assess the effectiveness of reporting mechanisms for cybercrime and disparities in reporting cybercrime data and other types of crime data.