New York S 7476: Relates to social media open application programming

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S07476 Summary:

BILL NOS07476 

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SPONSORHOYLMAN-SIGAL

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Add Art 42-A §§1120 - 1124, Gen Bus L

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Relates to social media open application programming; requires social media platforms to implement and maintain a standards-based application programming interface that permits third-party applications to retrieve data at no cost to be used for the user's benefit and to provide certain information to users; requires social media companies to submit a report to the attorney general.

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04/17/2025REFERRED TO INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7476

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 17, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
 when printed to be committed to the Committee on Internet and Technol-
 ogy

 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to social media
 open application programming

 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 arti-
 2 cle 42-A to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 42-A
 4 SOCIAL MEDIA OPEN APPLICATION PROGRAMMING
 5 INTERFACE ACCESS
 6 Section 1120. Definitions.
 7 1121. Required open API access with social media for third-party
 8 development tools.
 9 1122. API access report.
 10 1123. Violations and remedies.
 11 1124. Application.
 12 § 1120. Definitions. As used in this article:
 13 1. "Application programming interface" or "API" means a standards-
 14 based interface that permits third-party applications to retrieve data
 15 and send instructions through the use of non-proprietary technologies
 16 that are commonly used and recognized by businesses on behalf of a user
 17 or authorized representative with no special effort.
 18 2. "Authorized representative" means a person who has received written
 19 authorization from a user to take actions on behalf of a user on a
 20 social media platform.
 21 3. "Content" means statements or comments made by users and media that
 22 are created, posted, shared, or otherwise interacted with by users on an
 23 internet-based service or application. "Content" does not include media

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08368-01-5

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 1 put on a service or application exclusively for the purpose of cloud
 2 storage, transmitting files, or file collaboration.
 3 4. "Public or semipublic internet-based service or application"
 4 excludes a service or application used to facilitate communication with-
 5 in a business or enterprise among employees or affiliates of the busi-
 6 ness or enterprise, provided that access to the service or application
 7 is restricted to employees or affiliates of the business or enterprise
 8 using the service or application.
 9 5. "Social media company" means a person or entity that owns or oper-
 10 ates one or more social media platforms.
 11 6. "Social media platform" means a public or semipublic internet-based
 12 service or application that has users in New York and that meets both of
 13 the following criteria:
 14 (a) A substantial function of the service or application is to connect
 15 users in order to allow users to interact socially with each other with-
 16 in the service or application. A service or application that provides
 17 email or direct messaging services shall not be considered to meet this
 18 criterion on the basis of that function alone.
 19 (b) The service or application allows users to do all of the follow-
 20 ing:
 21 (i) construct a public or semipublic profile for purposes of signing
 22 into and using the service or application;
 23 (ii) populate a list of other users with whom an individual shares a
 24 social connection within the system; and
 25 (iii) create or post content viewable by other users, including, but
 26 not limited to, on message boards, in chat