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Feb 02, 2018 | referred to consumer affairs and protection |
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
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Co-Sponsors
Felix Ortiz
N. Nick Perry
William Colton
Michele Titus
Multi-Sponsors
Carmen E. Arroyo
Jeffrey Dinowitz
Richard Gottfried
Andrew Hevesi
A9691 (ACTIVE) - Details
A9691 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Relates to establishing the online consumer protection act; defines terms; provides that an advertising network shall post clear and conspicuous notice on the home page of its own website about its privacy policy and its data collection and use practices related to its advertising delivery activities; makes related provisions.
A9691 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 9691 I N A S S E M B L Y February 2, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, ORTIZ, PERRY, COLTON, TITUS, GUNTHER, LUPARDO, JAFFEE, O'DONNELL, CUSICK, ZEBROWSKI, BENEDETTO, GALEF, CAHILL, HOOPER, PRETLOW, TITONE, L. ROSENTHAL, WEPRIN, QUART, MAYER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, HEVESI, HIKIND, PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to establishing the online consumer protection act THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "online consumer protection act". § 2. Legislative findings. The state has the authority to enact consumer regulations to protect the people of the state. Recently, the state has enacted a series of laws to address problems arising from the ubiquity of the internet. From protecting consumers from electronic breaches of security to enacting laws prohibiting the practice of "phishing" -- an electronic form of identify theft -- the state has an obligation to enact sensible protections for the people. The internet age has changed, often for the better, the way people work, enjoy entertainment and interact with one another. However, with the internet age new problems have arisen that must be addressed, chief among them, the loss of personal privacy. Recent examples, including one where search engine results were tracked to an individual, have illus- trated that a person's privacy can be breached easily and with grave consequences. There is a fundamental rift between tracking technology and consumers' right to control what data is collected and where it goes. Action must be taken in order to prevent more egregious violations of privacy occurring including price discrimination, exposure of personal information to subpoenas and warrantless government access. This act establishes provisions to allow consumers the ability to simply opt-out of being monitored on the internet. Such protections, akin to the do not call registry, are a fair, sensible and common sense way to give consumers a clear choice with respect to being monitored. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets