Protecting Children Over Profits Act

Summary

Creates a narrow exception in federal electronic-communications law so that certain privacy or disclosure limits do not apply to records held by internet or cloud providers when those records relate to child exploitation as defined in the PROTECT Our Children Act. Also makes targeted edits to related surveillance statutes to align with that exception. The change applies to records maintained by providers of electronic communications services or remote computing services and cites the child-exploitation definition in 34 U.S.C. §21101. Two additional, but unspecified, textual insertions are made to other federal wiretapping/pen-register statutes to conform related authorities to this change.

• Creates a new exception so certain statutory protections do not block access to provider-held records that relate to child exploitation.
• Specifically amends 18 U.S.C. §2706(c) to add a child-exploitation subparagraph tied to the definition in 34 U.S.C. §21101.
• Applies to records or information held by electronic communications service and remote computing service providers.
• Also inserts unspecified conforming language into 18 U.S.C. §2518 and §3124(c) to align related surveillance statutes.
• Affects how providers, law enforcement, and courts handle disclosures in child-exploitation investigations.
• Does not create new programs or appropriations and does not change the statutory definition of child exploitation.
• May reduce some privacy protections for records that fall within the child-exploitation definition, while aiming to aid child-protection investigations.
• The summary does not show procedural details (e.g., notice, warrant standards) for disclosure beyond the textual exception.