Bill > A2171

Introduced Session

This bill requires an Internet service provider (ISP) to keep confidential a subscriber's personally identifiable information unless the subscriber, expressly and in writing or by email, authorizes the ISP to disclose this information. An ISP is required to provide written notice of this bill's requirements to each subscriber. An ISP is not to add a supplemental charge or penalize a subscriber either financially or in quality or speed of delivery of service for choosing not to authorize the disclosure of personally identifiable information. The provisions of this bill do not apply to disclosures incidental to the ISP's ordinary course of business or to investigations undertaken pursuant to the "New Jersey Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act." This bill provides that a violation of this bill is to be an unlawful practice in accordance with the State's Consumer Fraud Act. In this bill, "personally identifiable information" means any information that personally identifies, describes, or is able to be associated with a subscriber or users of a subscriber's account, including, but not limited to, several examples listed in this bill. This bill also provides that "subscriber" means a residential or business subscriber located in this State that subscribes with an Internet service provider to receive access to the Internet on equipment located in the State.

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Annette Chaparro (D)*,  Angelica Jimenez (D)*,  Gordon Johnson (D)*,  Raj Mukherji (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (on 01/14/2020)