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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6041
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 827
Referred to Committee on GENERAL LAW
Introduced by:
REP. BOLINSKY, 106th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING SOCIAL MEDIA SITES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That section 42-288a of the general statutes be amended to require 1
that a social media site operating in this state offer an opt-out option 2
for the site's user, such that the user may determine whether or not he 3
or she consents to the social media site accessing the user's personal 4
contact list for reasons of engaging in unsolicited marketing to the 5
user's contacts, irrespective of whether the user is a subscriber or 6
nonsubscriber of the social media site. 7
Statement of Purpose:
To protect a consumer from having his or her personal contacts
accessed by a social media site in order to generate unsolicited
marketing to the consumer's contacts.