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Privacy Legislation Pending in 2013

The California Legislature considers many bills on privacy issues each year. This page summarizes some of the currently pending or recently enacted bills. The bills may have been amended since this listing, and the listing does not imply a position of support or opposition to any of them. To get more information on the bills and their status, enter the bill number in Bill Information search.


  • AB 25   (Campos) Social media: government employees This bill would extend to public employers the same prohibition that currently applies to private employers (and higher education) on requiring employees or applicants to provide access to their personal social media accounts.

  • AB 242   (Chau) Privacy policy 100 words This bill would require Web sites or online services that collect personally identifiable information to make their privacy policies easier to read, including a requirement that the policies be no more than 100 words and written at no greater than an 8th grade reading level.

  • AB 257   (Hall) Mobile app privacy This bill would establish specific privacy requirements and definitions for mobile applications.

  • AB 319   (Campos) Websites and online services: minors This bill would establish privacy and notice requirements for Web sites and online services directed to minors or that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information from minors (under 18 years of age).

  • AB 370   (Muratsuchi) Online tracking transparency This bill would require a Web site or online service to disclose in its privacy policy whether or not it complies with a user’s Web browser signal or similar request to disable online tracking.

  • AB 658   (Calderon) Confidentiality of Medical Information Act: medical apps This bill would apply the prohibitions of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act to any business that offers medical application software that is designed to allow an individual to manage their health information or care.

  • AB 844   (Dickinson) Credit and debit cards: personal information This bill would extend certain existing restrictions on collecting personal identification information for credit card transactions to debit cards.

  • AB 1274   (Bradford) Smart grid cyber security This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to establish cyber-security standards and protocols for a “smart grid” home area network device that communicates electrical or gas consumption data. The bill would also require utilities to give consumers educational materials about cyber-security on the smart grid.

  • AB 1291   (Lowenthal) Information-sharing disclosure: “Shine the light” This bill would update the existing “shine the light” law to provide consumers with access to their personal information that companies share with third parties for marketing and other purposes.

  • AB 1327   (Gorell) Unmanned aircraft systems: Drones This bill would regulate how surveillance drones may be used by public and private entities.

  • SB 15   (Padilla) Unmanned aircraft systems: Drones This bill states the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would establish standards for the use of unmanned aircraft systems.

  • SB 46   (Corbett) Personal information: privacy This bill would revise the definition of personal information in the case of data breach.

  • SB 383   (Jackson) Online purchases: personal information This bill would apply certain limits on the collection of personal information to online credit card purchases of downloadable products.

  • SB 568   (Steinberg) Online advertising to minors This bill would enact legislation that would restrict Internet marketing and personal information compilation of minors, and require Web site and other online operators to permit minors to remove posted content.

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