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SSB 3106
Topics:Technology & privacy
Same legislation: HSB 613
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 23, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 23, 2024
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Companies that provide the texting software built into your phone must use encryption to keep messages secure. These providers also have to make sure photos and videos stay high quality and that typing or reading notifications work correctly if a user turns them on. If a company fails to follow these rules, the state can take legal action and charge them a fine for each device affected.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires texting software providers to ensure certain encryption and notification features when persons send or receive text messages. telephone numbers capable of sending or receiving a text message. The bill requires a texting software provider to ensure that text message data is encrypted and sent over a network that supports the encryption, that media sent in the text message is sent and received in its original quality without degradation, and that a text message sender or receiver receives real-time notifications that a person is typing a message or whether a sent message has been read, if the user has enabled such functions on the wireless device. The bill authorizes the Iowa utilities board and the attorney general to seek an injunction against a software provider that is not encrypting text messages. A violation of the bill subjects the texting software provider to a civil penalty of $10 for each device with which a violation occurs. The bill takes effect upon enactment.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 23, 2024. Meeting: Tuesday, January 30 · 12:00 PM · Senate Lounge.
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