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                                   4850
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 15, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Internet and Technology
 
 AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
   e-mail  service  providers to implement a procedure to authenticate an
   individual's identity when such individual creates an e-mail account
   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
 390-e to read as follows:
   §  390-E.  IDENTITY  AUTHENTICATION  FOR  E-MAIL  ACCOUNTS. 1. FOR THE
 PURPOSES OF THIS  SECTION  "E-MAIL  SERVICE  PROVIDER"  SHALL  MEAN  ANY
 PERSON,  BUSINESS OR ORGANIZATION QUALIFIED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE
 THAT PROVIDES INDIVIDUALS, CORPORATIONS,  OR  OTHER  ENTITIES  WITH  THE
 ABILITY TO SEND E-MAIL MESSAGES.
   2.  ALL  E-MAIL  SERVICE  PROVIDERS DOING BUSINESS IN THIS STATE SHALL
 DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A PROCEDURE TO AUTHENTICATE AN INDIVIDUAL'S  IDEN-
 TITY WHEN SUCH INDIVIDUAL CREATES A NEW E-MAIL ACCOUNT.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06256-01-3