Virginia House Bill 325 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on January 2 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-02-12 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Right to privacy in electronic communications; civil action. Provides that a person has a right to privacy in the content and metadata of the person's electronic communications, including emails, text messages, telephone calls, location data, mobile or cellular phone signals, or other forms of electronic communications. A person may maintain a civil action for the unauthorized use of a digital image or profile generated through the aggregation or analysis of the content or metadata of his electronic communications for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade. The bill also creates a civil cause of action for a person whose transmissions of messages, data, signals, or other communications made through the Internet and other electronic service providers that are not intended for public disclosure have been intercepted, monitored, examined, or otherwise accessed without lawful authority against the person who intercepted, monitored, examined, or otherwise accessed such transmissions and any person who facilitated or allowed such interception, monitoring, examination, or access.

Electronic communications; right to privacy, civil action.

Del. Robert Marshall [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-12	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2014-01-10	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil
2014-01-02	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2014-01-02	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14103276D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	40.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+HB325
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB325+hil