BILL NUMBER: SB 568 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 18, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 10, 2013
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 1, 2013
INTRODUCED BY Senator Steinberg
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
An act to add Chapter 22.1 (commencing with Section 22580) to
Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to the
Internet.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 568, as amended, Steinberg. Privacy: Internet: minors.
Existing law requires an operator of a commercial Web site or
online service that collects personally identifiable information
through the Internet about individual consumers residing in
California who use or visit its commercial Web site or online service
to make its privacy policy available to consumers, as specified.
Existing federal law requires an operator of an Internet Web site
or online service directed to a child, as defined, or an operator of
an Internet Web site or online service that has actual knowledge that
it is collecting personal information from a child to provide notice
of what information is being collected and how that information is
being used, and to give the parents of the child the opportunity to
refuse to permit the operator's further collection of information
from the child.
This bill would, on and after January 1, 2015, prohibit an
operator of an Internet Web site, online service, online application,
or mobile application, as specified, from marketing or advertising
a product or service specified types of
products or services to a minor, as defined, if state
or federal law expressly prohibits a minor from purchasing the
product or service minor . The bill would
prohibit an operator from using, disclosing, or compiling, or
knowingly allowing a 3rd party to knowingly
use, disclose, or compile, the personal information of a minor for
the purpose of marketing or advertising specified types of
products or services if state or federal law expressly
prohibits a minor from purchasing the product or service .
The bill would also make this prohibition applicable to an
advertising service that is notified by an operator of an Internet
Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application
that the site, service, or application is directed to a minor.
The bill would, on and after January 1, 2015, require the operator
of an Internet Web site, online service, online application, or
mobile application to permit a minor, who is a registered user of the
operator's Internet Web site, online service, online application, or
mobile application, to remove, or to request and obtain removal of,
content or information publicly posted on the operator's Internet Web
site, service, or application by the minor, unless the content or
information was publicly posted by a 3rd party, any other provision
of state or federal law requires the operator or 3rd party to
maintain the content or information, or the operator anonymizes the
content or information. The bill would require the operator to
provide notice to a minor that the minor may remove the content or
information, as specified.
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. Chapter 22.1 (commencing with Section 22580) is added
to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, to read:
CHAPTER 22.1. PRIVACY RIGHTS FOR CALIFORNIA MINORS IN THE
DIGITAL WORLD
22580. (a) An operator of an Internet Web site, online service,
online application, or mobile application directed to minors or the
operator of an Internet Web site, online service, online application,
or mobile application that has actual knowledge that a minor is
using its Internet Web site, online service, online application, or
mobile application shall not do any of the following:
(1) Market or advertise a product or service on the Internet Web
site, online service, online application, or mobile application
directed to minors, or to a minor who the operator has actual
knowledge is using its Internet Web site, online service, online
application, or mobile application if state or federal law
expressly prohibits a minor from purchasing the product or service
the marketing or advertising is for a product
described in subdivision (g) .
(2) Use, disclose, compile, or knowingly allow a third
party to use, disclose, or compile, the personal information of a
minor for the purpose of marketing or advertising products or
services if state or federal law expressly prohibits a minor
from purchasing the product or service the marketing
or advertising is for a product described in subdivision (g) .
(b) "Minor" means a natural person under 18 years of age who
resides in the state.
(c) "Internet Web site, online service, online application, or
mobile application directed to minors" mean an Internet Web site,
online service, online application, or mobile application, or a
portion thereof, that is created for the purpose of reaching an
audience that is primarily comprised of minors. Provided, however,
that an Internet Web site, online service, online application, or
mobile application, or a portion thereof, shall not be deemed to be
directed at minors solely because it refers or links to an Internet
Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application
directed to minors by using information location tools, including a
directory, index, reference, pointer, or hypertext link.
(d) "Operator" means any person or entity that owns an Internet
Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application.
It does not include any third party that operates, hosts, or manages,
but does not own, an Internet Web site, online service, online
application, or mobile application on the owner's behalf or processes
information on the owner's behalf.
(c)
(e) This section shall not be construed to require an
operator of an Internet Web site, online service, online application,
or mobile application to collect or retain age information about
users.
(d)
(f) (1) With respect to marketing or advertising
provided by an advertising service, the operator of an Internet Web
site, online service, online application, or mobile application
directed to minors shall be deemed to be in compliance with
subdivision (a) if the operator informs the advertising service
, in the manner required by the advertising service, that the
site, service, or application is directed to minors.
(2) If an advertising service is notified , in the manner
required by the advertising service, that an Internet Web site,
online service, online application, or mobile application is
directed to minors pursuant to paragraph (1), the advertising service
shall not market or advertise a product or service on the operator's
Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile
application that state or federal law expressly prohibits a minor
from purchasing.
(g) The marketing and advertising restrictions described in
subdivision (a) shall apply to the following products and services as
they are defined under state law:
(1) Alcoholic beverages.
(2) Firearms or handguns.
(3) Ammunition or reloaded ammunition.
(4) Handgun safety certificates.
(5) Aerosol container of paint that is capable of defacing
property.
(6) Etching cream that is capable of defacing property.
(7) Any tobacco, cigarette, or cigarette papers, or blunts wraps,
or any other preparation of tobacco, or any other instrument or
paraphernalia that is designed for the smoking or ingestion of
tobacco, products prepared from tobacco, or any controlled substance.
(8) BB device.
(9) Dangerous fireworks.
(10) Tanning in an ultraviolet tanning device.
(11) Dietary supplement products containing ephedrine group
alkaloids.
(12) Tickets or shares in a lottery game.
(13) Salvia divinorum or Salvinorin A, or any substance or
material containing Salvia divinorum or Salvinorin A.
(14) Body piercing.
(15) Body branding.
(16) Permanent tattoo.
(17) Drug paraphernalia.
(18) Electronic cigarette.
(19) Harmful matter or obscene matter.
(20) Laser pointer.
(21) A less lethal weapon.
22581. (a) An operator of an Internet Web site, online service,
online application, or mobile application directed to minors or an
operator of an Internet Web site, online service, online application,
or mobile application that has actual knowledge that a minor is
using its Internet Web site, online service, online application, or
mobile application shall do all of the following:
(1) Permit a minor who is a registered user of the operator's
Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile
application to remove, or to request and obtain removal of, content
or information publicly posted on the operator's Internet Web site,
online service, online application, or mobile application by the
user.
(2) Provide notice to a minor who is a registered user of the
operator's Internet Web site, online service, online application, or
mobile application that the minor may remove, or request and obtain
removal of, content or information publicly posted on the operator's
Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile
application by the registered user.
(3) Provide clear instructions to a minor who is a registered user
of the operator's Internet Web site, online service, online
application, or mobile application on how the user may request and
obtain the removal of content or information publicly posted on the
operator's Internet Web site, online service, online application, or
mobile application.
(4) Provide notice to a minor who is a registered user of the
operator's Internet Web site, online service, online application, or
mobile application that the removal described under subdivision (b)
does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or
information publicly posted on the operator's Internet Web site,
online service, online application, or mobile application by the
registered user.
(b) An operator or a third party is not required to erase or
otherwise eliminate, or to enable erasure or elimination of, content
or information in any of the following circumstances:
(1) Any other provision of federal or state law requires the
operator or third party to maintain the content or information.
(2) The content or information was publicly posted to the operator'
s Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile
application by a third party other than the minor, who is a
registered user, including any content or information publicly posted
by the registered user that was republished or reposted by the third
party.
(3) The operator anonymizes the content or information posted by
the minor who is a registered user, so that the minor who is a
registered user cannot be individually identified.
(c) This section shall not be construed to limit the authority of
a law enforcement agency to obtain any content or information from an
operator as authorized by law or pursuant to an order of a court of
competent jurisdiction.
(d) An operator shall be deemed compliant with this section if:
(1) It renders the content or information posted by the minor user
no longer visible to other users of the service and the public even
if the content or information remains on the operator's servers in
some form.
(2) Despite making the original posting by the minor user
invisible, it remains visible because a third party has copied the
posting or reposted the content or information posted by the minor.
(e) This section shall not be construed to require an operator or
an Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile
application to collect age information about users.
(f) "Publicly posted" means content or information that can be
accessed by a user in addition to the minor who posted the content or
information, whether the user is a registered user or not, of the
Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile
application where the content or information is posted.
22582. This chapter shall become operative on January 1, 2015.