New York A 8624: Requires social media networks to provide and maintain mechanisms for deleting individual accounts on their platform

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A08624 Summary:

BILL NOA08624 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORConrad

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MLTSPNSR

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Add 394-cccc, Gen Bus L

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Requires social media networks to provide and maintain mechanisms for deleting individual accounts on their platform; requires social media networks to have a clear and concise policy readily available and accessible on their website and application which includes how such social media network will delete individual user accounts and all associated personal data on their platform.

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BILL NOA08624 

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05/22/2025referred to science and technology

01/07/2026referred to science and technology

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8624

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 22, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. CONRAD -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Science and Technology

 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring
 social media networks to provide and maintain mechanisms for deleting
 individual accounts on their platform

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 2 394-cccc to read as follows:
 3 § 394-cccc. Social media networks; account deletion. 1. As used in
 4 this section, "social media network" means online platforms operated for
 5 commercial purposes that allow users to create, share, and view content
 6 or interact socially with other users, including through messaging,
 7 posting, commenting, or liking features.
 8 2. A social media network that conducts business in the state, shall
 9 provide and maintain a clear and easily accessible mechanism for indi-
 10 vidual users, or such users' parents or guardians if the user is under
 11 eighteen years of age, unless otherwise emancipated or as otherwise
 12 provided by law, to delete such users' accounts and the personal data
 13 associated with them. Such mechanism shall be clearly accessible to
 14 users of such network, or such users' parents or guardians, and easily
 15 accessed from both a social media networks' application and website, and
 16 shall allow the social media network to provide a direct response to any
 17 individual, within fourteen days of the deletion request, that such
 18 individual's account and personal data has been deleted from such social
 19 media network's application and website. For the purposes of this
 20 subdivision, "clear and easily accessible" shall mean that the deletion
 21 mechanism is no more than two clicks from the user's main account
 22 settings page, is written in plain language, and is available in any
 23 version of the platform offered to users in the state.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11953-02-5

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 1 3. Each social media network shall have a clear and concise policy
 2 readily available and accessible on their website and application which
 3 includes how such social media network will delete individual user
 4 accounts and all associated personal data, including content, metadata,
 5 and user activity logs, to the extent not legally required to retain, on
 6 their platform.
 7 4. Nothing in this section shall be construed to add to or increase
 8 liability of a social media network for anything other than the failure
 9 to provide a mechanism for a user to delete their account and personal
 10 data on their platform and to receive a confirmation of such deletion.
 11 5. Any social media platform that knowingly fails to comply with the
 12 requirements of this section shall be assessed a civil penalty for such
 13 violation by the attorney general not to exceed one thousand dollars per
 14 individual affected, per day of noncompliance. Each day such offense
 15 shall continue shall constitute a separate additional violation. In
 16 determination of any such violation, the attorney general shall be
 17 authorized to take proof and make a determination of the relevant facts
 18 and to is