Plain English Breakdown
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Privacy Rules for Health Data and Location Tracking
This law stops people from collecting or selling location data about individuals at family planning centers, bans using that data to track health care providers in California, and protects research records from being shared with out-of-state authorities.
What This Bill Does
- Prohibits the collection, use, sale, sharing, or keeping of personal information for people located at a family planning center unless needed to provide requested services.
- Bans geofencing, which is selling or sharing location data with third parties to track entities that provide in-person health care services in California.
- Allows individuals who are harmed by these violations to file civil lawsuits against the person or group responsible.
- Requires violators of geofencing rules to pay fines collected by the Attorney General and deposited into a state fund for reproductive health education grants.
- Stops researchers from releasing records that identify people seeking abortion care if requested by law enforcement enforcing another state's laws on this topic.
Who It Names or Affects
- People or businesses that collect, use, sell, share, or keep personal information about individuals at family planning centers.
- Third parties who buy or receive location data to track health care providers in California.
- Researchers holding records related to people seeking abortion services.
Terms To Know
- Geofencing
- Selling or sharing personal location information with a third party to track an entity that provides health care services in California for specified purposes.
- Family Planning Center
- A facility defined by law where people receive reproductive and sexual health services, protected from data collection unless necessary for requested goods or services.
- Prima Facie Evidence
- Evidence that is enough to prove a fact unless someone provides proof against it, such as a signed statement about not selling data in violation of geofencing rules.
Limits and Unknowns
- The law does not change existing rules for how law enforcement agencies use personal information from electronic monitoring devices.
- Specific details on which health care services are covered by the geofencing ban depend on definitions provided elsewhere in the text.