Assembly Bill A3308

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to regulating the dissemination of personal information acquired by a provider of on-line computer services

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A3308 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §397-b, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5650
2011-2012: A1324
2013-2014: A2989
2015-2016: A8413
2017-2018: A3346

2019-A3308 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Regulates the collection, disclosure and dissemination of personal information acquired by a provider of on-line computer services in order to ensure the privacy of subscriber information and wage patterns.

2019-A3308 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3308
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 29, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ORTIZ,  DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the  collection
   and  disclosure  of  certain information collected by on-line computer
   services

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 397-b to read as follows:
   §  397-B.  ON-LINE COMPUTER SERVICES.  1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION, THE
 FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A) "ON-LINE COMPUTER SERVICE" MEANS THE OFFERING OF A CAPABILITY  FOR
 GENERATING,  ACQUIRING,  STORING,  TRANSFORMING, PROCESSING, RETRIEVING,
 UTILIZING OR MAKING AVAILABLE INFORMATION USING COMPUTER-BASED  TELECOM-
 MUNICATIONS.  ON-LINE COMPUTER SERVICE SHALL ALSO INCLUDE A SERVICE THAT
 PERMITS A SUBSCRIBER TO RETRIEVE STORED INFORMATION FROM OR FILE  INFOR-
 MATION   FOR  STORAGE  IN  INFORMATION  STORAGE  FACILITIES,  ELECTRONIC
 PUBLISHING OR AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGING SERVICE.
   (B) "PERSONAL INFORMATION" MEANS INFORMATION WHICH IDENTIFIES EITHER A
 SPECIFIC FILE OR SERVICE UTILIZED OR FROM AN  ON-LINE  COMPUTER  SERVICE
 AND THE SUBSCRIBER AND/OR SUCH SUBSCRIBER'S ON-LINE COMPUTER ADDRESS WHO
 OBTAINED  SUCH  FILE  OR SERVICE. PERSONAL INFORMATION SHALL NOT INCLUDE
 ANY RECORD OF AGGREGATE DATA WHICH DOES NOT IDENTIFY A FILE  OR  SERVICE
 UTILIZED  AND  A  SUBSCRIBER  AND/OR  SUCH SUBSCRIBER'S ON-LINE COMPUTER
 ADDRESS.
   (C) "DISCLOSE" OR "DISCLOSURE" MEANS THE SALE, RENTAL OR OTHER DISSEM-
 INATION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION.
   (D) "FILE" MEANS A COLLECTION OF RELATED RECORDS TREATED AS A UNIT.
   (E) "RECORDS" MEANS A GROUP OF  DISTINCT  DATA  ITEMS  IN  A  COMPUTER
 SYSTEM, MANIPULATED AS A UNIT.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07226-01-9
              

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