Title: Protecting Diplomats from Surveillance Through Consumer Devices Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Protecting Diplomats from Surveillance Through Consumer Devices Act
This bill directs the Department of State to: (1) establish a policy on the use of location-tracking consumer devices, including GPS-enabled devices, at U.S. diplomatic and consular facilities by U.S. government employees, contractors, locally employed staff, and members of other agencies deployed to or stationed at such facilities; and (2) submit a related report to Congress.
Existing and new employees at such facilities shall, as a part of their security briefings, be informed of such policy and given instructions on the use of location-tracking consumer devices on and off facility premises.
The State Department may coordinate policy formulation with other agencies whose employees are deployed to or stationed at U.S. diplomatic and consular facilities.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4989 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4989

To require the Department of State to establish a policy regarding the 
 use of location-tracking consumer devices by employees at diplomatic 
            and consular facilities, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 8, 2018

    Mr. Castro of Texas (for himself and Mr. McCaul) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Department of State to establish a policy regarding the 
 use of location-tracking consumer devices by employees at diplomatic 
            and consular facilities, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Diplomats from 
Surveillance Through Consumer Devices Act''.

SEC. 2. SECURE UNITED STATES DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR FACILITIES AGAINST 
              CYBERSURVEILLANCE.

    (a) Policy on Location-Tracking Consumer Devices.--Not later than 
60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
State shall establish a policy on the use of location-tracking consumer 
devices, including GPS-enabled devices, at United States diplomatic and 
consular facilities by United States Government employees, contractors, 
locally employed staff and members of other agencies deployed to or 
stationed at such facilities.
    (b) Security Briefing.--Existing and new employees at United States 
diplomatic and consular facilities, including contractors, locally 
employed staff, and members of other agencies deployed to or stationed 
at such facilities, shall, as a part of the security briefings provided 
to such employees, be informed of the policy described in subsection 
(a) and given instructions on the use of location-tracking consumer 
devices both on and off the premises of such facilities.
    (c) Coordination.--The Secretary of State may coordinate with the 
heads of any other agencies whose employees are deployed to or 
stationed at United States diplomatic and consular facilities in the 
formulation of the policy described in subsection (a) and the 
dissemination of such policy pursuant to subsection (b).
    (d) Report.--Not later than 30 days after the formulation of the 
policy described in subsection (a), the Secretary of State shall submit 
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report on the 
details of such policy.
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