S.Amdt. 4950

SA 4950. Mr. SANDERS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 4935 proposed by Mr. McConnell (for Mr. Roberts) to the
bill S. 764, to reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College
Program Act, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

On page 9, line 17, insert ``, and any company
manufacturing or marketing a product with a quick response
code may not coordinate with a company selling a product with
a quick response code in order to track consumers or better
market to consumers'' after ``consumers''.
On page 9, line 21, after the semicolon, insert the
following: ``and
``(C) information described in subparagraph (A) may be
collected and kept only with respect to consumers who opt in
to that collection, and a consumer's decision to not opt in
to such collection shall not be the basis for a company to
withhold information such company is otherwise required to
disclose under this subtitle;''.
On page 10, between lines 3 and 4, insert the following:
``(e) Personally Identifiable Information.--For purposes of
subsection (d)(3), the term `personally identifiable
information' means--
``(1) any representation of information that allows the
identity of an individual to whom the information applies to
be reasonably inferred by either direct or indirect means; or
``(2) information--
``(A) that directly identifies an individual (such as a
name, address, social security number, or other identifying
number or code, telephone number, or email address),
including through metadata;
``(B) that indirectly identifies specific individuals in
conjunction with other data elements (which may include a
combination of name, address, gender, race, birth date,
physical location, geographic indicator, and other
descriptors); or
``(C) through which a specific individual may be contacted
physically or electronically, which may be maintained in
paper, electronic, or other means.''.
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