Bill Text: NY A02357 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A02357 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02357-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2357

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 25, 2023
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        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