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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 827 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6041 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2019 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 827 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on GENERAL LAW | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. BOLINSKY, 106th Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT CONCERNING SOCIAL MEDIA SITES. | |
| 19 | 19 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 20 | 20 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 22 | 22 | That section 42-288a of the general statutes be amended to require 1 | |
| 23 | 23 | that a social media site operating in this state offer an opt-out option 2 | |
| 24 | 24 | for the site's user, such that the user may determine whether or not he 3 | |
| 25 | 25 | or she consents to the social media site accessing the user's personal 4 | |
| 26 | 26 | contact list for reasons of engaging in unsolicited marketing to the 5 | |
| 27 | 27 | user's contacts, irrespective of whether the user is a subscriber or 6 | |
| 28 | 28 | nonsubscriber of the social media site. 7 | |
| 29 | 29 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 30 | 30 | To protect a consumer from having his or her personal contacts | |
| 31 | 31 | accessed by a social media site in order to generate unsolicited | |
| 32 | 32 | marketing to the consumer's contacts. |