(ii) any record of aggregate data 
which cannot be used to identify particular 
persons. 
(11) PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION 
USED TO ESTABLISH OR MAINTAIN AN ACCOUNT.— 
The term ‘‘personally identifiable information used 
to establish or maintain an account’’ does not in-
clude— 
(A) information collected in the course of 
establishing or operating accounts for commu-
nications within a company; 
(B) information collected in the course of 
the purchase, sale, shipment, or distribution of 
goods, including transactions for goods or serv-
ices utilizing the Internet, other than commu-
nication services on which a political, religious, 
or ideological opinion or belief may be ex-
pressed; or 
(C) personally identifiable information vol-
unteered in an electronic communication, other 
than in a communication made in the course of 
establishing an account for Internet commu-
nications services, such as an electronic mail 
signature line or an electronic mail, on-line 
video, or Web page in which the author volun-
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tarily provides personally identifiable informa-
tion. 
(12) SUBSTANTIAL
RESTRICTIONS
ON
INTER-
NET FREEDOM.—The term ‘‘substantial restrictions 
on Internet freedom’’ means actions that restrict or 
punish the free availability of information via the 
Internet for reasons other than legitimate foreign 
law enforcement purposes, including— 
(A) deliberately blocking, filtering, or cen-
soring information available via the Internet 
based on the expression of political, religious, or 
ideological opinion or belief, including by elec-
tronic mail; or 
(B) persecuting, prosecuting, or otherwise 
punishing an individual or group for posting or 
transmitting peaceful political, religious, or ide-
ological opinion or belief via the Internet, in-
cluding by electronic mail. 
(13) TRAFFIC DATA.—The term ‘‘traffic data’’ 
means, with respect to an electronic communication, 
any information contained in or relating to such 
communication that is processed for the purpose of 
the conveyance of the communication by an elec-
tronic communications system or for the billing 
thereof, including any Internet Protocol address or 
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other means of identifying a location within an elec-
tronic communications system, but that cannot be 
used to identify a particular person. Such term can-
not be used to include the contents of any electronic 
communication. 
(14) UNITED
STATES
BUSINESS.—The term 
‘‘United States business’’ means— 
(A) any corporation, partnership, associa-
tion, joint-stock company, business trust, unin-
corporated organization, or sole proprietorship 
that— 
(i) has its principal place of business 
in the United States; or 
(ii) is organized under the laws of a 
State of the United States or a territory, 
possession, or commonwealth of the United 
States; and 
(B) any issuer of a security registered pur-
suant to section 12 of the Securities Exchange 
Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78l). 
SEC. 4. SEVERABILITY. 
If any provision of this Act, or the application of such 
provision to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, 
the remainder of this Act, and the application of such pro-
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vision to other persons not similarly situated or to other 
circumstances, shall not be affected by such invalidation. 
TITLE I—PROMOTION OF 
GLOBAL INTERNET FREEDOM 
SEC. 101. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It shall be the policy of the United States— 
(1) to promote as a fundamental component of 
United States foreign policy the right of every indi-
vidual to freedom of opinion and expression, includ-
ing the right to hold opinions, and to seek, receive, 
and impart information and ideas through any 
media and regardless of frontiers, without inter-
ference; 
(2) to use all appropriate instruments of United 
States influence, including diplomacy, trade policy, 
and export controls, to support, promote, and 
strengthen principles, practices, and values that pro-
mote the free flow of information without inter-
ference or discrimination, including through the 
Internet and other electronic media; and 
(3) to deter any United States business from 
cooperating with officials of Internet-restricting 
countries in effecting the political censorship of on-
line content. 
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