1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Customer Online Notification for Stopping Edge-provider Network Transgressions or the CONSENT Act . 2. Privacy of customers of edge providers (a) Definitions In this section— (1) the term breach of security means any instance in which a person, without authorization or in violation of any authorization provided to the person, gains access to, uses, or discloses sensitive customer proprietary information; (2) the term Commission means the Federal Trade Commission; (3) the term customer means— (A) an individual who is a customer of an edge provider; and (B) an individual who is a user of an edge service provided by an edge provider; (4) the term edge provider means a person that provides an edge service, but only to the extent to which the person provides that service; (5) the term edge service — (A) means a service that is provided over the Internet— (i) for which the edge provider requires the customer to subscribe or establish an account in order to use the service; (ii) that the customer purchases from the edge provider without a subscription or account; (iii) through which a program searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the customer; or (iv) through which a customer divulges sensitive customer proprietary information of the customer; and (B) includes any service that is provided— (i) through a software program, including a mobile application; or (ii) over the Internet, directly or indirectly, through a connected device; (6) the term opt-in consent means a method by which an edge provider may obtain from a customer affirmative, express consent to use, disclose, or permit access to the sensitive customer proprietary information of the customer after the customer has received explicit notification of the request of the edge provider with respect to that information