Bill Text: NY A02357 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires e-mail service providers to implement a procedure to authenticate an individual's identity when such individual creates a new e-mail account.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A02357 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A02357-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2357 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 25, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection 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: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 390-e to read as follows: 3 § 390-e. Identity authentication for e-mail accounts. 1. For the 4 purposes of this section "e-mail service provider" shall mean any 5 person, business or organization qualified to do business in this state 6 that provides individuals, corporations, or other entities with the 7 ability to send e-mail messages. 8 2. All e-mail service providers doing business in this state shall 9 develop and implement a procedure to authenticate an individual's iden- 10 tity when such individual creates a new e-mail account. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06256-01-3
