ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida Congressman Darren Soto, D-Kissimmee, presented legislation to a subcommittee on Capitol Hill Wednesday that would penalize identity imposters and provide “legal remedies " for anyone whose identities are “used online without their consent.”
“We know how the internet can be the wild west, Soto told News 6. “People can pass as you or any number of our neighbors.”
The News 6 investigation into the racial slurs linked to UCF student Alex Bugay by an imposter was presented to Soto last November.
Soto’s team reviewed the WKMG-TV report and developed the SHIELD Act, an aggressive legislative action that would “prohibit and establish penalties for the use of an identity of another without authorization.”