California increases online privacy for public officials
Governor Schwarzenegger has signed AB 1595 into law, Download file, which prohibits persons or entities from posting or publicly displaying on the Internet the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official if that official has made a written demand of that person, business, or association to not disclose his or her home address or telephone number.
The new law contains an exemption for ISPs as follows:
"An interactive computer service or access software provider, as defined in Section 230(f) of Title 47 of the United States Code, shall not be liable under this section unless the service or provider intends to abet or cause imminent great bodily harm that is likely to occur or threatens to cause imminent great bodily harm to an elected or appointed official."
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