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2001 - 2002 LEGISLATURE
March 7, 2001 - Introduced by Representative Powers, by request of Governor's
Task Force on Privacy. Referred to Committee on Personal Privacy.
AB176,1,2 1An Act to create 19.68 of the statutes; relating to: collection of personally
2identifiable information by certain state entities from Internet sites.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill provides that if a state officer, agency, authority, or governmentally
related corporation maintains an Internet site, the officer, agency, authority, or
corporation may not use that site to obtain personally identifiable information from
any person who visits that site without the consent of the person from whom the
information is obtained. Under the bill, "personally identifiable information" means
information that can be associated with a particular individual through one or more
identifiers or other information or circumstances. Violators are subject to a forfeiture
(civil penalty) of not more than $500 for each violation.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB176, s. 1 3Section 1. 19.68 of the statutes is created to read:
AB176,2,2 419.68 Collection of personally identifiable information from Internet
5users.
No state authority that maintains an Internet site may use that site to obtain

1personally identifiable information from any person who visits that site without the
2consent of the person from whom the information is obtained.
AB176,2,33 (End)
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