15 U.S.C. § 6554 — Online Safety and Technology working group

(a) Establishment. Within 90 days after October 10, 2008, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information must establish an Online Safety and Technology working group. It must include representatives of relevant business sectors, public-interest groups, other appropriate groups, and Federal agencies. The group must review and evaluate: (1) industry efforts to promote online safety through education, parental-control technology, blocking and filtering software, age-appropriate content labels, or other technologies or initiatives for a safe online environment for children; (2) industry efforts by electronic-communications and remote-computing service providers to promote online safety by reporting apparent child pornography under section 13032, including barriers to reporting; (3) those providers' record-retention practices concerning crimes against children; and (4) technologies that help parents shield children from inappropriate Internet^* material. (b) Report. Within one year after the group first meets, it must report to the Assistant Secretary, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The report must (1) describe its findings in detail, including information about the effectiveness of the strategies and technologies and their prevalence in industry, and (2) recommend incentives that could be used or developed to make those strategies and technologies more effective and more widely implemented. (c) Chapter 10 of title 5 not to apply to working group. Chapter 10 of title 5 does not apply to the working group.