Requires certain businesses to offer identity theft prevention and mitigation services in the case of a security breach; exempts businesses under financial hardship.
Provides that if the person or business providing the notification was the source of the breach, an offer to provide appropriate identity theft prevention and mitigation services, shall be provided at no cost to the affected person for not less than 12 months, along with all information necessary to take advantage of the offer to any person whose information was or may have been breached if the breach exposed or may have exposed personal information.
Relates to financial assistance to small businesses for the purpose of pollution prevention, control and compliance.
Requires that businesses that provide consumers with online accounts to access services accounts for mobile telephones using proper identification if the business has a physical presence in this state.
Requires that businesses that provide consumers with online accounts to access services accounts for mobile telephones using proper identification if the business has a physical presence in this state.
Requires the consumer protection division to establish a process by which any state agency or third party, pursuant to an interagency agreement with the division for the purposes of fraud prevention, identity verification, and ensuring the integrity or security of individual identities, to grant access to verify New York resident identities via a secure comparison process against state systems.
Relates to offenses involving theft of identity; creates five tiers of crimes, based on the financial loss to the victim(s) and the number of people victimized.
Requires that businesses offering physical manipulation services ensure that certain windows, entrances, and public-facing areas are unobscured and that there is clear visibility from the public right-of-way into certain public spaces on the premises of such businesses; defines physical manipulation services to include massage therapy, reflexology, services provided on feet at foot spas, bodywork, acupressure, and any other service that involves physically manipulating any part of a human body; exempts services provided by certain persons from being included in such definition.
Enacts the "small business health plan act" which provides small businesses opportunities to provide health insurance to owners and employees by exempting such insurance from certain requirements.
Requires that certain contracts let by the office of general services be reserved for small businesses, including minority-owned business enterprises and women-owned business enterprises.