Bill Text: CA SB501 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Drivers' licenses: examinations: driving tests: proof of financial responsibility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-23 - From committee: Be re-referred to Coms. on INS. and TRANS. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on INS. [SB501 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: SB 501	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 30, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 15, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 9, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Corbett

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to add Part 2.8 (commencing with Section 60) to Division 1
of the Civil Code, relating to privacy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 501, as amended, Corbett. Social networking Internet Web sites:
privacy: minors.
   Existing law requires an operator of a commercial Internet Web
site or online service that collects personally identifiable
information through the Internet about individual consumers residing
in California who use or visit its site or online service to
conspicuously post its privacy policy on its Internet Web site.
Existing law also prescribes various prohibitions with regard to
disclosures of personal information related to, among other things,
driver's licenses, social security numbers, and direct marketing.
   This bill would require a social networking Internet Web site, as
defined, to remove the personal identifying information, as defined,
of any registered user  , as defined,  within 96
hours after his or her request and would also require removal of that
information in that same manner regarding a user under 18 years of
age upon request by the user's parent or legal guardian.  The
bill would also authorize a social networking Internet Web site to
require a request submitted for the removal of personal identifying
information to include a specified statement. The bill would not
require removal of the personal identifying information if federal or
state law otherwise requires the social networking Internet Web site
to maintain the information.  The bill would impose a civil
penalty, not to exceed $10,000, for each willful and knowing
violation of these provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Part 2.8 (commencing with Section 60) is added to
Division 1 of the Civil Code, to read:

      PART 2.8.  SOCIAL NETWORKING PRIVACY ACT


   60.  (a) A social networking Internet Web site shall remove the
personal identifying information of a registered user in a timely
manner upon his or her request. In the case of a registered user who
identifies himself or herself as being under 18 years of age, the
social networking Internet Web site shall also remove the information
in a timely manner upon the request of a parent or legal guardian of
the registered user.
   (b) A request submitted by a registered user pursuant to
subdivision (a) shall include sufficient information to verify the
identity of the user and shall specify any known location of the
information that is the subject of the request. 
   (c) A social networking Internet Web site may require a request
submitted by a registered user pursuant to subdivision (a) to include
the following statement:  
    "I attest that the information in this request is accurate, that
I am the registered user or the parent or legal guardian of the
registered user to whom the personal identifying information in this
request pertains, and that I am authorized to make this request under
the laws of the State of California."  
   (d) A social networking Internet Web site is not required to
remove or otherwise eliminate personal identifying information if any
other provision of federal or state law requires the Internet Web
site to maintain the information.  
   (e) This section shall not be construed to limit the authority of
a law enforcement agency to obtain any content or information from a
social networking Internet Web site as authorized by law or pursuant
to an order of a court of competent jurisdiction. 
   62.  For purposes of this part:
   (a) "In a timely manner" means within 96 hours of delivery of the
request.
   (b) "Personal identifying information" means a person's address,
telephone number, driver's license number, state identification card
number, social security number, employee identification number,
mother's maiden name, demand deposit account number, savings account
number, or credit card number.
   (c) "Registered user" means any person who has created an account
for purposes of accessing a social networking Internet Web site.
   (d) "Social networking Internet Web site" means an Internet
Web-based service that allows an individual to construct a public or
partly public profile within a bounded system, articulate a list of
other users with whom the individual shares a connection, and view
and traverse his or her list of connections and those made by others
in the system.
   65.  A social networking Internet Web site that willfully and
knowingly violates any provision of this part shall be liable for a
civil penalty, not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for each
violation of this part.                             
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