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Opposed Bills - State William Owen 6/12/23 Opposed Bills - State William Owen 6/12/23

New York Privacy Act (A7423A / S365)

This bill would enact the New York privacy act to require companies to disclose their methods of de-identifying personal information, to place special safeguards around data sharing and to allow consumers to obtain the names of all entities with whom their information is shared.

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Opposed Bills - State William Owen 6/11/23 Opposed Bills - State William Owen 6/11/23

Email Account ID Authentication (A2357 / S4850)

This bill would require e-mail service providers to implement a procedure to authenticate an individual's identity when such individual creates a new e-mail account. See our memo of opposition here.

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Opposed Bills - State William Owen 6/4/23 Opposed Bills - State William Owen 6/4/23

Encourages use of Facial Recognition in stores for alcohol/tobacco (A2621 / S6656)

This bill would encourage stores to use facial recognition technology to ensure purchasers of alcohol and cigarettes are of legal age. See our sign-on letter here. See our memo of opposition here.

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Opposed Bills - State William Owen 6/1/23 Opposed Bills - State William Owen 6/1/23

Criminalizing photoshopped lewd content (A4217 / S5583)

This bill would criminalize photoshopped lewd content, including satire. See our memo of opposition here.

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Opposed Bills - State William Owen 5/31/23 Opposed Bills - State William Owen 5/31/23

Digital Outing of Children Bill (A936)

This bill would disclose to a parent the personal information and content about a minor collected by an operator of an internet platform when a parent requests such information.

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Opposed Bills - State William Owen 5/30/23 Opposed Bills - State William Owen 5/30/23

Digital Censoring of Children Bill (A927 / S2319)

This bill would prevent interactive computer service providers from knowingly or negligently promoting developed content that is dangerous or otherwise injurious to minors; assesses a civil penalty to social media networks that knowingly or negligently promote such content.

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Opposed Bills - State William Owen 5/12/23 Opposed Bills - State William Owen 5/12/23

Cameras in for-hire vehicles (A2806 / S2379)

This bill would require certain for-hire vehicles to install and maintain an interior rear-facing video camera.

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Opposed Bills - State William Owen 5/11/23 Opposed Bills - State William Owen 5/11/23

Racetrack Cameras (A297)

This bill would require the installation and use of surveillance cameras in all racetracks.

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Opposed Bills - State William Owen 5/10/23 Opposed Bills - State William Owen 5/10/23

DOC Body Cameras (A3875 / S2408)

This bill relates to establishing a pilot program for the use of body-worn cameras on certain correction officers.

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Opposed Bills - State William Owen 4/12/23 Opposed Bills - State William Owen 4/12/23

Parole Body Cameras (S1763)

This bill would require certain employees of the New York state department of corrections and community supervision to wear body cameras.

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Opposed Bills - State William Owen 4/12/23 Opposed Bills - State William Owen 4/12/23

Trash Dumping Cameras (A3709 / S1552)

This bill would authorize certain local municipal agencies to use surveillance cameras to combat illegal dumping.

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Opposed Bills - State William Owen 4/12/23 Opposed Bills - State William Owen 4/12/23

ADS Hiring bill (A567 / S5641)

This bill would establish criteria for the use of automated employment decision tools; provides for enforcement for violations of such criteria.

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