Internet Safety Act

Updated on Nov 21, 2023

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The Internet Safety Act and the Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act (acronymized SAFETY) were two United States bills introduced in 2009 requiring "a provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service [to] retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user."

In addition, these bills had the following purposes:

to stop child pornography,

to keep Internet predators offline and in prison cells,

to make Internet safety public service announcements

to make Internet safety a concern

to stop child and teen abduction

to get children and teens to report issues on the Internet to parents and Internet officials, rather than to be afraid and to log off and be worried that they did something wrong.

Neither bill was passed by Congress.

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Internet Safety Act Wikipedia

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