(a) This title shall be known and may be cited as the Reader Privacy Act. (b) For purposes of this section: (1) âBookâ means paginated or similarly organized content in printed, audio, electronic, or other format, including fiction, nonfiction, academic, or other works of the type normally published in a volume or finite number of volumes, excluding serial publications such as a magazine or newspaper. (2) âBook serviceâ means a service that, as its primary purpose, provides the rental, purchase, borrowing, browsing, or viewing of books. âBook serviceâ does not include a store that sells a variety of consumer products when the book service sales do not exceed 2 percent of the storeâs total annual gross sales of consumer products sold in the United States. (3) âGovernment entityâ means any state or local agency, including, but not limited to, a law enforcement entity or any other investigative entity, agency, department, division, bureau, board, or commission, or any individual acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of a state or local agency. (4) âLaw enforcement entityâ means a district attorney, a district attorneyâs office, a municipal police department, a sheriffâs department, a county probation department, a county social services agency, the Department of Justice, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Division of Juvenile Facilities, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the police department of a campus of a community college, the University of California, or the California State University, or any other department or agency of the state authorized to investigate or prosecute the commission of a crime. (5) âPersonal informationâ means all of the following: (A) Any information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is associated with a particular user, including, but not limited to, the information specifically listed in Section 1798.80. (B) A unique identifier or Internet Protocol address, when that identifier or address is used to identify, relate to, describe, or be associated with a particular user or book, in whole or in partial form. (C) Any information that relates to, or is capable of being associated with, a particular userâs access to or use of a book service or a book, in whole or in partial form. (6) âProviderâ means any commercial entity offering a book service to the public. (7) âUserâ means any person or entity that uses a book service. (c) A provider shall not knowingly disclose to any government entity, or be compelled to disclose to any person, private entity, or government entity, any personal information of a user, except under any of the following circumstances: (1) A provider shall disclose personal information of a user to a law enforcement entity only pursuant to a court order issued by a duly authorized court with jurisdiction over an offense that is under investigation and only if all of the following conditions are met: (A) The court issuing the order finds that probable cause exists to believe the personal information requested is relevant evidence to the investigation of an offense and any of the grounds in Section 1524 of the Penal Code is satisfied. (B) The court issuing the order finds that the law enforcement entity seeking disclosure has a compelling interest in obtaining the personal information sought. (C) The court issuing the order finds that the personal information sought cannot be obtained by the law enforcement entity seeking disclosure through less intrusive means. (D) Prior to issuance of the court order, the law enforcement entity seeking disclosure provides, in a timely manner, the provider with reasonable notice of the proceeding to allow the provider the opportunity to appear and contest issuance of the order. (E) The law enforcement entity seeking disclosure has informed the provider that it has given notice of the court order to the user contemporaneous
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