Assembly Bill A3709

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Allows consumers the right to request from businesses the categories of personal information a business has sold or disclosed to third parties

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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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2021-A3709 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S567
Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Art 39-F Art Head, add §899-cc, Gen Bus L; add 99-ii, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A6351, S4411
2023-2024: A4374, S3162

2021-A3709 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Grants a consumer a right to request a business to disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information that it collects about the consumer, the categories of sources from which that information is collected, the business purposes for collecting or selling the information, and the categories of third parties with which the information is shared.

2021-A3709 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3709
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. GUNTHER, SAYEGH, ENGLEBRIGHT, THIELE, DICKENS,
   GALEF, DARLING, ZEBROWSKI, CRUZ, J. RIVERA, NIOU, HYNDMAN,  FERNANDEZ,
   GLICK,  JONES,  GRIFFIN,  DeSTEFANO,  SMULLEN,  J. M. GIGLIO, SCHMITT,
   McDONOUGH, MONTESANO, ASHBY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  HAWLEY
   --  read  once  and  referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and
   Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law and the state finance  law,  in
   relation  to  allowing  consumers the right to request from businesses
   the categories of  personal  information  the  business  has  sold  or
   disclosed to third parties
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The article heading of article 39-F of the general business
 law, as amended by chapter 117 of the laws of 2019, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
 
          [NOTIFICATION OF UNAUTHORIZED] ACQUISITION AND CONTROL
            OF PRIVATE AND PERSONAL INFORMATION; DATA SECURITY
                                PROTECTIONS
 
   §  2. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 899-
 cc to read as follows:
   § 899-CC. CONSUMER CONTROL OF PERSONAL INFORMATION. 1. FOR PURPOSES OF
 THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING DEFINITIONS SHALL APPLY:
   (A) "BIOMETRIC DATA" MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL'S  PHYSIOLOGICAL,  BIOLOGICAL
 OR  BEHAVIORAL  CHARACTERISTICS,  INCLUDING AN INDIVIDUAL'S DEOXYRIBONU-
 CLEIC ACID THAT CAN BE USED, SINGLY OR IN COMBINATION WITH EACH OTHER OR
 WITH OTHER IDENTIFYING DATA TO ESTABLISH INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY.  BIOMETRIC
 DATA INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO IMAGERY OF THE IRIS, RETINA, FINGER-
 PRINT, FACE, HAND, PALM, VEIN PATTERNS, AND VOICE RECORDINGS, FROM WHICH
 AN  IDENTIFIER  TEMPLATE, SUCH AS A FACEPRINT, A MINUTIAE TEMPLATE, OR A
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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