Cybercrime Statistics Act

Bill: 114-hr-6002
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Clark, Katherine M. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2016-09-13
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses

Computer security and identity theft

Criminal justice information and records

Government information and archives

Internet and video services

Internet, web applications, social media

Right of privacy

Sex offenses
Latest action: action_date: 2016-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-09-13
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Cybercrime Statistics Act</b></p> <p>This bill directs the Department of Justice (DOJ) to develop a national strategy to reduce the incidence, coordinate federal investigations, and increase federal prosecutions of cybercrimes against individuals. The term &quot;cybercrimes against individuals&quot; means a crime that involves the use of a computer to cause personal harm to an individual.</p> <p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation must design and create a category, in the Uniform Crime Reports, for an offense that constitutes a cybercrime against individuals.</p> <p>DOJ must publish an annual summary of statistics related to cybercrimes against individuals.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6002 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 13, 2016 Ms. Clark of Massachusetts introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To provide for the acquisition and publication of data relating to cybercrimes against individuals, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Cybercrime Statistics Act . 2. National strategy, classification, and reporting on cybercrime (a) National strategy The Attorney General shall develop a national strategy to reduce the incidence of cybercrimes against individuals, coordinate investigations of cybercrimes against individuals by Federal law enforcement agencies, and increase the number of Federal prosecutions of cybercrimes against individuals. (b) Classification of cybercrimes against individuals for purposes of crime reports Pursuant to authority under section 534 of title 28, United States Code, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall— (1) design and create within the Uniform Crime Reports a category for offenses that constitute cybercrimes against individuals; (2) to the extent feasible, within the category established pursuant to paragraph (1), establish subcategories for each type of cybercrime against an individual which is an offense under Federal or State law; (3) classify the category established pursuant to paragraph (1) as a Part 1 crime in the Uniform Crime Reports; and (4) classify each type of cybercrime against an individual which is an offense under Federal or State law as a Group A offense for the purpose of the National Incident-Based Reporting System. (c) Annual summary The Attorney General shall publish an annual summary of the information reported in the Uniform Crime Reports and the National Incident-Based Reporting System relating to cybercrimes against individuals. (d) Definitions In this section: (1) ) The term cybercrimes against individuals means Federal, State, or local criminal offenses that involve the use of a computer to cause personal harm to an individual, such as the use of a computer to harass, threaten, stalk, extort, coerce, cause fear, intimidate, without consent distribute intimate images of, or violate the privacy of, an individual, except that— (A) use of a computer need not be an element of such an offense; and (B) such term does not include the use of a computer to cause harm to a commercial entity, government agency, or any non-natural persons. (2) The term computer includes a computer network and any interactive electronic device.