Bill Text

Bill Information


Add To My Favorites | print page

AB-632 Internet-based social networking: privacy.(2009-2010)

SHARE THIS: share this bill in Facebook share this bill in Twitter
AB632:v95#DOCUMENT

Enrolled  September 02, 2009
Passed  IN  Senate  August 27, 2009
Passed  IN  Assembly  August 31, 2009
Amended  IN  Senate  June 22, 2009
Amended  IN  Assembly  May 12, 2009
Amended  IN  Assembly  April 23, 2009

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2009–2010 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 632


Introduced  by  Assembly Member Davis

February 25, 2009


An act to add Section 1708.9 to the Civil Code, relating to privacy.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 632, Davis. Internet-based social networking: privacy.
Existing law provides that a person is liable for constructive invasion of privacy when he or she attempts to capture, in a manner that is offensive to a reasonable person, any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of another person engaging in a personal or familial activity under circumstances in which that other person had a reasonable expectation of privacy, through the use of a visual or auditory enhancing device, regardless of whether there is a physical trespass, if this image, sound recording, or other physical impression could not have been achieved without a trespass unless the visual or auditory enhancing device was used.
This bill would require a social networking Internet Web site to provide a specified disclosure to a user, as defined, of the site stating that an image which is uploaded onto the social networking Internet Web site is capable of being copied by persons who view the image without the consent of the user who initially uploads the image, or copied in violation of the privacy policy, terms of use, or other policy of the site.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 1708.9 is added to the Civil Code, to read:

1708.9.
 (a) A social networking Internet Web site shall provide a disclosure in at least one location, including, but not limited to, in the privacy policy, in the terms of use, or on the upload page, to users of the social networking Internet Web site that an image, including, but not limited to, a photograph, which is uploaded onto the social networking Internet Web site is capable of being copied by persons who view the image without the consent of the user who initially uploads the image or copied in violation of the privacy policy, terms of use, or other policy of the social networking site.
(b) For purposes of this section, “user” means a person registered with the social networking Internet Web site as a member, and the parent or guardian of the user if the user is registered as a minor.