‘‘(iv) is reflected in operational poli-
cies and procedures necessary to embed it 
through it throughout the company; and 
‘‘(v) is independently assessed by a 
third party to demonstrate compliance in 
practice, which should include— 
‘‘(I) whether the assessment was 
conducted under the supervision of 
any third party organization or multi- 
stakeholder initiative; 
‘‘(II) a description of the assess-
ment process; 
‘‘(III) a description of measures 
taken to ensure the assessor’s inde-
pendence; and 
‘‘(IV) inclusion of the assessor’s 
public report. 
‘‘(B) NON-COMPLIANCE.—If the company’s 
policy does not comply with any of the require-
ments of subclauses (I) through (IV) of sub-
paragraph (A)(v), an explanation of why the 
company’s policy does not meet each such re-
quirement. 
‘‘(C) POLICIES PERTAINING TO THE COL-
LECTION
OF
PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE
IN-
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FORMATION.—If the company collects or ob-
tains personally identifiable information, the 
contents of wire or electronic communications 
in electronic storage, or the contents of wire or 
electronic communications in a remote com-
puting service on the Internet, the details of 
any internal policies or procedures of the com-
pany that set out how the company will assess 
and respond to requests by the governments of 
Internet-restricting countries for disclosure of 
such information or communications. 
‘‘(D) RESTRICTIONS ON INTERNET SEARCH 
ENGINES
AND
INTERNET
CONTENT
HOSTING 
SERVICES.—If the company creates, provides, 
or hosts an Internet search engine or an Inter-
net content hosting service, all steps taken to 
provide users and customers with clear, promi-
nent, and timely notice when access to specific 
content has been removed or blocked at the re-
quest of an Internet-restricting country. 
‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY
OF
INFORMATION.—The 
Commission shall make all information reported by 
an issuer pursuant to this subsection available online 
to the public. 
‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
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‘‘(A) INTERNET
COMMUNICATIONS
SERV-
ICES
COMPANY.—The term ‘Internet commu-
nications services company’ means an issuer 
that— 
‘‘(i) is required to file an annual re-
port with the Commission; and 
‘‘(ii)(I) provides electronic commu-
nications services or remote computing 
services; or 
‘‘(II) is a domain name registrar, do-
main name registry, or other domain name 
registration authority. 
‘‘(B) 
ELECTRONIC
COMMUNICATIONS 
SERVICES.—The term ‘electronic communica-
tions services’ has the meaning given such term 
under section 2510(15) of title 18, United 
States Code. 
‘‘(C) INTERNET-RESTRICTING COUNTRY.— 
The term ‘Internet-restricting country’ has the 
meaning given such term under section 3 of the 
Global Online Freedom Act of 2011. 
‘‘(D) REMOTE
COMPUTING
SERVICES.— 
The term ‘remote computing services’ has the 
meaning given such term under section 1711(2) 
of title 18, United States Code.’’. 
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