Provides that if the person or business providing the notification was the source of the breach, an offer to provide appropriate identity theft prevention and mitigation services, shall be provided at no cost to the affected person for not less than 12 months, along with all information necessary to take advantage of the offer to any person whose information was or may have been breached if the breach exposed or may have exposed personal information.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2868
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to credit monitor-
ing services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 899-aa of the general business
2 law, as added by chapter 442 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 7. Regardless of the method by which notice is provided, such notice
5 shall include contact information for the person or business making the
6 notification and a description of the categories of information that
7 were, or are reasonably believed to have been, acquired by a person
8 without valid authorization, including specification of which of the
9 elements of personal information and private information were, or are
10 reasonably believed to have been, so acquired. If the person or busi-
11 ness providing the notification was the source of the breach, an offer
12 to provide appropriate identity theft prevention and mitigation
13 services, shall be provided at no cost to the affected person for not
14 less than twelve months, along with all information necessary to take
15 advantage of the offer to any person whose information was or may have
16 been breached if the breach exposed or may have exposed personal infor-
17 mation as defined in subdivision one of this section.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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