Bill Text: CA AB288 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Consumer privacy: social media companies.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB288 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB288-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 19, 2019 |
Assembly Bill | No. 288 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Cunningham (Coauthors: Assembly Members |
January 28, 2019 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Title 1.81.24 (commencing with Section 1798.90.7) is added to Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code, to read:TITLE 1.81.24. Social Media Privacy
1798.90.7.
For the purposes of this title:1798.90.75.
(a) When a user of a social networking service deactivates or deletes the user’s account, the service shall provide the user the option of having the user’s personally identifiable information permanently removed from any database controlled by the service, from the service’s records, and to prohibit the service from selling that information to, or exchanging that information with, a third party in the future.(a)For the purposes of this title, “social media company” means a company who provides electronic services or accounts, or electronic content, including, but not limited to, videos, still photographs, blogs, video blogs, podcasts, instant and text messages, email, online services or accounts, or internet website profiles or locations.
(b)When a user of the services of a social media company decides to close the user’s account, the company shall provide the user the option of having the user’s personally identifiable information permanently removed from the company’s database and records and excluded from sale. If the user elects to have the user’s personally
identifiable information permanently removed and excluded from sale, the social media shall do so. The social media company shall honor that request within a reasonable time.