BILL NUMBER: AB 1687 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 2, 2016
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 16, 2016
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 5, 2016
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 25, 2016
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Calderon
JANUARY 20, 2016
An act to add Section 1798.83.5 to the Civil Code, relating to
personal data.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1687, as amended, Calderon. Customer records: age information:
commercial online entertainment employment service providers.
Existing law requires a business that owns, licenses, or maintains
personal information about a California resident to implement and
maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to
the nature of the information, to protect the personal information
from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or
disclosure. Existing law provides specified civil penalties for a
violation of these provisions.
This bill would prohibit a commercial online entertainment
employment service provider that enters into a contractual agreement
to provide specified employment services to an individual paid
subscriber from publishing information about the subscriber's age in
an online profile of the subscriber and would require the provider,
within 5 days, to remove any from public view
in an online profile of the subscriber certain information
regarding the subscriber's age from an online profile of the
subscriber from on any companion
Internet Web site under the provider's control if requested by the
subscriber. The bill would define terms for purposes of these
provisions. Under the bill, a provider that permits the public to
upload or modify content on its own Internet Web site or any Internet
Web site under its control without prior review by that provider
would not be in violation of these provisions unless the subscriber
first requested the provider to remove age information.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 1798.83.5 is added to the Civil Code, to read:
1798.83.5. (a) The purpose of this section is to ensure that
information obtained on an Internet Web site regarding an individual'
s age will not be used in furtherance of employment or age
discrimination.
(b) A commercial online entertainment employment service provider
that enters into a contractual agreement to provide employment
services to an individual for a subscription payment shall not, upon
request by the subscriber, do either of the following:
(1) Publish or make public the subscriber's date of birth or age
information in an online profile of the subscriber.
(2) Share the subscriber's date of birth or age information with
any Internet Web sites for the purpose of publication.
(c) A commercial online entertainment employment service provider
subject to subdivision (b) shall, within five days, remove from
public view in an online profile of the subscriber the
subscriber's date of birth and age information from public
view on all any companion
Internet Web sites under its control upon specific request by the
subscriber naming the Internet Web sites. A commercial online
entertainment employment service provider that permits members of the
public to upload or modify Internet content on its own Internet Web
site or any Internet Web site under its control without prior review
by that provider shall not be deemed in violation of this section
unless first requested by the subscriber to remove age information.
(d) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) "Commercial online entertainment employment service provider"
means a person or business that owns, licenses, or otherwise
possesses computerized information, including, but not limited to,
age and date of birth information, about individuals employed in the
entertainment industry, including television, films, and video games,
and that makes the information available to the public or potential
employers.
(2) "Payment" means a fee in exchange for advertisements, or any
other form of compensation or benefit.
(3) "Provide employment services" means post resumes, photographs,
or other information about a subscriber when one of the purposes is
to provide individually identifiable information about the subscriber
to a prospective employer.
(4) "Subscriber" means a natural person who enters into a
contractual agreement with a commercial online entertainment
employment service provider to receive employment services in return
for a subscription payment.