Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Cybercrime Statistics Act”.
Cybercrime Statistics Act
A BILL
To provide for the acquisition and publication of data relating to cybercrimes against individuals, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 National strategy, classification, and reporting on cybercrime
National strategy— The Attorney General shall develop a national strategy to reduce the incidence of cybercrimes against individuals, coordinate investigations of cybercrimes against individuals by Federal law enforcement agencies, and increase the number of Federal prosecutions of cybercrimes against individuals.
Classification of cybercrimes against individuals for purposes of crime reports— Pursuant to authority under section 534 of title 28, United States Code, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall—
design and create within the Uniform Crime Reports a category for offenses that constitute cybercrimes against individuals;
to the extent feasible, within the category established pursuant to paragraph (1), establish subcategories for each type of cybercrime against an individual which is an offense under Federal or State law;
classify the category established pursuant to paragraph (1) as a Part 1 crime in the Uniform Crime Reports; and
classify each type of cybercrime against an individual which is an offense under Federal or State law as a Group A offense for the purpose of the National Incident-Based Reporting System.
Annual summary— The Attorney General shall publish an annual summary of the information reported in the Uniform Crime Reports and the National Incident-Based Reporting System relating to cybercrimes against individuals.
Definitions— In this section:
) The term cybercrimes against individuals means Federal, State, or local criminal offenses that involve the use of a computer to cause personal harm to an individual, such as the use of a computer to harass, threaten, stalk, extort, coerce, cause fear, intimidate, without consent distribute intimate images of, or violate the privacy of, an individual, except that—
use of a computer need not be an element of such an offense; and
such term does not include the use of a computer to cause harm to a commercial entity, government agency, or any non-natural persons.
The term computer includes a computer network and any interactive electronic device.