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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3119
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2021
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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 amended by chapter 117 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read
3 as 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, the telephone numbers and websites of the relevant state
7 and federal agencies that provide information regarding security breach
8 response and identity theft prevention and protection information, and a
9 description of the categories of information that were, or are reason-
10 ably believed to have been, accessed or acquired by a person without
11 valid authorization, including specification of which of the elements of
12 personal information and private information were, or are reasonably
13 believed to have been, so accessed or acquired. If the person or busi-
14 ness providing the notification was the source of the breach, an offer
15 to provide appropriate identity theft prevention and mitigation
16 services, shall be provided at no cost to the affected person for not
17 less than twelve months, along with all information necessary to take
18 advantage of the offer to any person whose information was or may have
19 been breached if the breach exposed or may have exposed personal infor-
20 mation as defined in subdivision one of this section.
21 § 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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