BILL NUMBER: SB 568	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Steinberg

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act relating to the Internet.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 568, as introduced, Steinberg. Internet: minors: protection.
   Existing federal law requires, among other things, an operator of
an Internet Web site or online service directed to children or an
operator of an Internet Web site or online service that has actual
knowledge that it is collecting personal information from a child to
provide notice of what information is being collected, how that
information is being used, and to give the parents of the child the
opportunity to refuse to permit the operator's further collection of
information from the child.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would provide protection on the Internet for minors.

   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would provide protection on the Internet for minors.