jiayi-li23/proxann_data huggingface dataset:
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Science, technology, communications
Date: 2011-11-18 00:00:00

Stop Taxpayer Funded Cell Phones Act of 2011 - Prohibits a provider of commercial mobile communications service from receiving universal service support under specified provisions of the Communications Act of 1934 for the provision of such service through the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Lifeline program (a program that provides discounts on monthly telephone service to qualifying low-income consumers).
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2011-12-07 00:00:00

United States Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act - Requires a business enterprise that employs 50 or more employees, excluding part-time employees, or 50 or more employees who in the aggregate work at least 1,500 hours per week, exclusive of overtime, in a call center to notify the Secretary of Labor at least 120 days before relocating such center outside of the United States. Subjects violators to a civil penalty of up to $10,000 a day. Directs the Secretary to maintain and make publicly available a list of all such employers that relocate a call center. Requires such an employer to remain on the list for up to three years after each relocation. Makes such an employer ineligible for federal grants or federal guaranteed loans for five years after being added to the list, except where the employer demonstrates that a lack of such loan or grant would threaten national security, result in substantial job loss in the United States, or harm the environment. Requires the head of federal or state executive agency or military department, when awarding a civilian or defense-related contract, to give preference to a U.S. employer that does not appear on the list. Requires a business entity that initiates or receives a customer service communication to require each of its employees or agents participating in the communication to disclose their physical location at the beginning of each such communication unless all involved employees or agents are located in the United States. Exempts any communication: (1) initiated by a consumer if the consumer knows or reasonably should know that the employee or agent is located outside the United States, or (2) related to the provision of emergency services. Requires such a business entity, upon request, to transfer a customer to a customer service agent who is physically located in the United States. Authorizes the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to exclude certain classes or types of business entities or customer services communications from the requirements of this Act under exceptionally compelling circumstances. Sets forth enforcement provisions.
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2011-12-08 00:00:00

Requires a person who owns or operates a retail establishment and uses mobile device tracking technology in the establishment to display in a prominent location a notice that such technology is in use and that individuals can avoid being tracked by turning off their mobile devices. Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate regulations to implement such requirement. Provides for FTC enforcement of violations.
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2012-01-18 00:00:00

E911 Surcharge Fairness Act of 2011 - Prohibits any state or local government from: (1) imposing a new unfair or inequitable E911 fee, tax, or surcharge with respect to any prepaid mobile service, provider, or customer; or (2) enforcing a new or existing E911 fee in an unfair or inequitable manner. Defines "E911 fee" as any 911 or E911 fee, tax, or surcharge specifically imposed or designated by a state or local government for the support of 911 or E911 communications systems and related public safety purposes. Defines as "unfair or inequitable" any E911 fee that: (1) cannot be collected from end-users who are the intended payors of the fees under the existing wireless business model of the prepaid mobile service provider, or (2) is enforced in a manner that imposes strict liability on a prepaid mobile service provider for its inability to collect such fee as so prescribed. Defines an "unfair or inequitable manner" as: (1) the imposition against a prepaid mobile service provider or seller of any E911 fee that the provider cannot collect from its end-user customers who are the intended payors of the fees under its existing wireless business model, (2) the enforcement of an E911 fee against a prepaid mobile service provider in a manner that creates strict liability for the provider or seller for its inability to collect as so prescribed, or (3) the imposition of a E911 fee in a manner that results in the fee being subject to other state or local taxes when such taxes are not equally imposed on the E911 fees paid by postpaid mobile service customers.
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Science, technology, communications
Date: 2012-03-22 00:00:00

Cell Phone Theft Prevention Act of 2012 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit a provider of commercial mobile or commercial mobile data service from providing service on a mobile electronic device reported to such provider as stolen by: (1) the person who holds the service account, if such person submits a copy of a report made to a law enforcement agency regarding the theft; or (2) another provider of commercial mobile or commercial mobile data service required by this Act to inform all other providers of a device reported stolen and of any information necessary for identification of the device. Defines "mobile electronic device" as a personal electronic device on which commercial mobile or commercial mobile data service is provided, excluding devices: (1) for which the consumer purchases service by paying in advance for a specified amount of calling or data usage, or (2) with respect to which the consumer does not have a direct relationship with the provider. Directs providers to make available to account holders the capability of deleting, from a remote location, all information that was placed on such a device after its manufacture. Prohibits a person from manufacturing in or importing into the United States for sale or resale to the public a mobile electronic device unless it is: (1) equipped with a unique identifier that allows a provider to identify such device, and (2) configured to enable a provider to make available the remote deletion capability required by this Act.
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Science, technology, communications
Date: 2012-03-29 00:00:00

Calling Card Consumer Protection Act - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to promulgate regulations requiring providers and distributors of prepaid calling cards, including cards using interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) or a successor protocol, to accurately disclose applicable terms and conditions. Requires such disclosures to include: (1) the provider's name, customer service telephone number, and hours of service; (2) the card's number of minutes or dollar value; (3) per minute rates or a toll-free number to obtain rates; (4) fees and charges; (5) time period limits, any predetermined decrease in value over a period of time, and expiration dates; and (6) refund and recharge policies. Requires the accuracy of any information provided by a voice prompt relating to remaining card value and minutes. Prohibits the FCC from specifying the rates, fees, additional charges, or terms and conditions of prepaid calling cards. Directs the FCC to implement and enforce this Act under the Communications Act of 1934. Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to consult with the FCC with respect to any FTC rulemakings, regulations, or enforcement concerning prepaid calling cards. Authorizes states or state-authorized consumer protection agencies to bring civil actions to enjoin or obtain damages or other relief for practices prohibited by this Act. Requires, with respect to any such state action, that the FCC be notified and permitted to intervene. Prohibits states, during the pendency of any FCC-instituted action for an alleged violation of a regulation promulgated under this Act, from instituting an action under this Act for such alleged violations against any defendant named in the FCC complaint. Preempts state and political subdivision prepaid calling card disclosure laws, unless such requirements are identical to the regulations promulgated under this Act.
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Science, technology, communications
Date: 2012-08-02 00:00:00

Revokes a provision of Executive Order 13618 (entitled "Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions") to the extent that it requires the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to satisfy priority communications requirements through the use of privately owned communications resources. Prohibits: (1) any federal agency or instrumentality from satisfying priority communications requirements through the use of privately owned communications resources, or (2) appropriated funds from being used to take any action that expands the federal government's authority to control such resources.
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Science, technology, communications
Date: 2012-08-03 00:00:00

Cell Phone Right to Know Act - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) conduct or support a comprehensive research program to determine whether exposure to electromagnetic fields from mobile communication devices causes adverse biological effects in humans, including vulnerable subpopulations such as children, pregnant women, those with compromised immune systems and hypersensitivity reactions, men and women of reproductive age, and the elderly; (2) disseminate research results to the general public; and (3) report findings and conclusions to Congress. Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to promulgate regulations to allow a subscriber to access personally or to give consent to allow researchers with institutional review board approval to access specific usage data required to investigate the link between electromagnetic radiation exposure and potential adverse biological effects in humans. Directs the EPA to promulgate regulations establishing maximum exposure level goals and maximum exposure levels for exposure to electromagnetic fields generated by mobile communication devices. Directs the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (FDA) to promulgate regulations to provide for labeling (including exposure ratings and the maximum allowable exposure levels and goals) on mobile communication devices, packaging, instruction manuals, and at points of sale in stores and on websites. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to increase: (1) the number and size of grants to institutions for training scientists in the field of examining the relationship between electromagnetic fields and human health; and (2) the number of career development awards for such training for health professionals pursuing careers in pediatric basic and clinical research, including pediatric pharmacological research. Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish a graduate educational loan repayment program and authorize national awards for researchers in such fields. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 with respect to the prohibition on state or local government zoning regulation of personal wireless service facilities on the basis of the environmental effects of radiofrequency emissions. Excludes from such prohibition state or local regulation based on the adverse human health effects of emissions of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields.
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2012-09-12 00:00:00

Mobile Device Privacy Act - Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate regulations requiring sellers or manufacturers of mobile devices and software, providers of mobile services, and operators of online services offering downloads of monitoring software for installation on a mobile device to disclose to consumers information about the installation and purpose of such software. Allows exemptions for uses consistent with the reasonable expectations of consumers. Defines "monitoring software" as software with the capability to monitor mobile device usage or the location of the user and to transmit the information collected to another device or system, whether or not such capability is the primary function of the software or the purpose for which it is marketed. Directs the FTC to promulgate regulations requiring: (1) the express consent of a consumer before monitoring software begins collecting and transmitting information and giving the consumer the opportunity to prohibit such collection and transmission at any time; (2) recipients of information transmitted from monitoring software to implement information security practices for the treatment and protection of the information; and (3) the filing with the FTC or the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as appropriate, of a copy of an agreement under which a person receives the type of information regarding which disclosure is required by this Act. Provides for enforcement by the FTC and FCC of regulations promulgated under this Act under the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Communications Act of 1934, respectively. Allows civil enforcement actions by states and by private persons injured by an act in violation of such regulations.
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Science, technology, communications
Date: 2012-09-21 00:00:00

Directs the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to establish the National Telecommunications and Information Security Advisory Committee. Requires the Committee to report periodically to the Assistant Secretary with information and advice from the perspective of the telecommunications industry on national security telecommunications, including: (1) information and advice on the implementation of Presidential Directive 53 concerning National Security Telecommunications Policy, (2) information and advice on the feasibility and effectiveness of implementing specific measures to improve the telecommunications aspects of the national security posture of the United States, and (3) the identification and solution of problems the Committee considers will affect national security telecommunications capability. Sets forth membership provisions and requires members to serve without pay. Directs executive agency heads, to the extent permitted by law, to provide the Committee such information with respect to national security telecommunications matters as the Committee may require to carry out its duties under this Act. Requires termination of the Commission within two years after its establishment unless the Assistant Secretary renews the Committee under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Science, technology, communications
Date: 2012-09-21 00:00:00

Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to expand the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) coordination of interconnectivity among telecommunications networks to include: (1) assistance in the development of essential information security technologies and capabilities for protecting telecommunications networks, (2) efforts to mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities, and (3) support of nationwide awareness and outreach efforts to educate the public about ways to mitigate threats to network security. Directs the FCC to include network security considerations in its procedures for overseeing coordinated network planning of telecommunications carriers and providers.
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Science, technology, communications
Date: 2012-09-21 00:00:00

Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to continue the advisory committee known as the FCC's Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council. Requires the Council to submit to the FCC and Congress recommendations on how to: (1) promote reliable 9-1-1 services, E9-1-1 services, and Next Generation 9-1-1 services and extend next generation capabilities to other services using abbreviated dialing codes; (2) make broadband networks, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems, and other communications networks more secure, resilient, and defendable against Internet-based attacks; (3) leverage advanced technologies and the Internet to distribute emergency alerts and warnings to the public; and (4) improve priority services programs related to national security and emergency preparedness, including Government Emergency Telecommunications Service, Telecommunications Service Priority, and Wireless Priority Service. Directs the Council to include with such recommendations a summary of the greatest and growing threats to the security of communications networks and an itemization of any statutory or regulatory obstacles. Prohibits this Act from being construed as a grant of authority to the FCC to adopt rules or regulations imposing binding obligations on businesses or consumers.
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Science, technology, communications
Date: 2012-09-21 00:00:00

Expands the purposes of the Communications Act of 1934 to include a requirement that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) execute and enforce such Act to make communications networks more secure, resilient, and defendable against Internet-based attacks.
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Science, technology, communications
Date: 2011-02-07 00:00:00

Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to make federal provisions prohibiting the obligation or expenditure of funds either in excess of appropriated amounts or in violation of sequestration orders under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1986 inapplicable to: (1) any amount collected or received as federal universal service contributions, or (2) the expenditure or obligation of amounts attributable to such contributions.
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Science, technology, communications
Date: 2011-04-05 00:00:00

Cell Phone Bill Shock Act of 2011 - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to promulgate regulations requiring a commercial mobile service provider to: (1) notify a subscriber who has used in excess of a certain percentage of the monthly limit of specified services (voice minutes, text messages, or data megabytes) agreed to in a service contract; (2) obtain a subscriber's consent before it allows the subscriber to use such services in excess of the monthly limit; and (3) ensure that the subscriber is not charged for any such notice or any consent.
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2011-05-17 00:00:00

Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2011 - Amends numerous provisions of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (specifically, a chapter within such Act commonly referred to as the Stored Communications Act) to: (1) add geolocation information services to the category of electronic and remote computing service providers required, under specified circumstances, to disclose customer or subscriber information to a governmental entity (an agency of the United States or any state or political subdivision thereof); (2) apply equally to such providers revised standards for disclosing, either voluntarily or pursuant to a warrant, subpoena, or other requirement, the contents of wire or electronic communications (eliminates existing standards based on whether such communications are stored electronically for more than 180 days) and records and specified identification information other than the contents of such communications; and (3) enumerate circumstances under which a governmental entity may use an electronic communications device to acquire geolocation information, including during designated emergencies or in response to a call for emergency services, or require a provider to disclose such contemporaneous, prospective, or historical information. Defines "geolocation information" as information concerning the location of an electronic communications device generated by or derived from the operation or use of such a device, excluding certain customer identification information and the contents of communications. Requires customer notice of certain disclosures. Allows a governmental entity to request delayed notice in permitted instances. Sets forth provisions: (1) concerning suppression of certain geolocation evidence at various proceedings, (2) barring legal actions against providers and related persons assisting in providing authorized geolocation information, and (3) revising certain voluntary disclosures based on cybersecurity rights. Authorizes the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to request the toll billing records and electronic communication identifiable information of a person or entity if the Director certifies in writing that such information is relevant to an authorized investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities.
Topic: Technology — Telecommunications
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2011-05-17 00:00:00

Telephone Excise Tax Repeal Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on communication services (i.e., local telephone service, toll telephone service, and teletypewriter exchange service).