1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Voter Privacy Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) According to the Pew Research Center, 90 percent of Americans reported using the internet in 2019, which was an increase from 52 percent in 2000. (2) Internet service providers, browsers, websites, search engines, email providers, device manufacturers, and certain social media companies collect unique data on nearly every American’s online and increasingly offline activities, every day. (3) One United States based search engine advertises its ability to track hundreds of categories of data about specific individuals including age, gender, occupation, income level, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, medical conditions such as AIDs, erectile dysfunction, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, and sexually transmitted diseases, family information such as number of children, children with special needs, infertility, and substance misuse, and support for social issues such as reproductive rights, unions and labor issues, and support for gun rights. (4) Targeting services, such as certain large search engines and social media platforms, maintain sophisticated data profiles on nearly every American. These targeting services are used by third parties to target and deliver communications to specific individuals based on their sensitive personal information, even if a third party does not control any individual’s personal information. (5) In testimony before the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate titled, Understanding Digital Advertising Ecosystem and the Impact on Data Privacy , the Committee received the following testimony regarding behavioral advertising: almost every single time you visit a website: data about you is broadcast to tens or hundreds of companies, which lets advertisers compete for the opportunity to show you an ad. Advertising is necessary, and this sounds OK. But wait until you hear what information about you is in that big broadcast: it can include your –