Title: Own Your Own Data Act
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Own Your Own Data Act
This bill requires a social media company to (1) provide a user with the ability to obtain and export their user data, along with any analysis of such data by the company; and (2) ensure that each user knowingly and willingly licenses their data to the company during the registration of an account.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 806 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 806

  To prohibit the collection of data or information generated on the 
                               internet.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 14, 2019

  Mr. Kennedy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the collection of data or information generated on the 
                               internet.

    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 ``Own Your Own Data Act''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION GENERATED ON INTERNET.

    (a) In General.--Each individual owns and has an exclusive property 
right in the data that an individual generates on the internet under 
section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 45).
    (b) Social Media Companies.--
            (1) In general.--Each social media company shall--
                    (A) have a prominently and conspicuously displayed 
                icon each user may click to obtain a copy of the user's 
                data with any analysis of the user's data performed by 
                the social media company;
                    (B) have a prominently and conspicuously displayed 
                icon each user may click to easily export the user's 
                data with any analysis of the user's data performed by 
                the social media company;
                    (C) require that each user, during the registration 
                of an account, knowingly and willfully enter into a 
                licensing agreement--
                            (i) that uses plain language that a 
                        reasonable person of average intelligence can 
                        understand the first time the person reads or 
                        hears the licensing agreement;
                            (ii) in which the user agrees to license 
                        the user's data to the social media company; 
                        and
                            (iii) that is no longer than 500 words, 
                        using a measure of 6 characters to a word; and
                    (D) have an icon each user may click to cancel 
                immediately the license agreement.
            (2) Regulations.--The Federal Trade Commission shall 
        promulgate regulations carrying out this subsection, which 
        shall be approved by Congress.
    (c) Enforcement.--The Federal Trade Commission shall enforce the 
provisions of this Act.
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