* § 399-ddd. Confidentiality of social security account number.\nBeginning on and after January first, two thousand eight:\n 1. (a) As used in this section "social security account number" shall\ninclude the number issued by the federal social security administration\nand any number derived from such number. Such term shall not include any\nnumber that has been encrypted.\n (b) For purposes of this section, the term "incarcerated individual"\nmeans a person confined in any local correctional facility as defined in\nsubdivision sixteen of section two of the correction law or in any\ncorrectional facility as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision four of\nsection two of the correction law pursuant to such person's conviction\nof a criminal offense.\n 2. No person, firm, partnership, association or corporation, not\nincluding the state or its political subdivisions, shall do any of the\nfollowing:\n (a) Intentionally communicate to the general public or otherwise make\navailable to the general public in any manner an individual's social\nsecurity account number. This paragraph shall not apply to any\nindividual intentionally communicating to the general public or\notherwise making available to the general public his or her social\nsecurity account number.\n (b) Print an individual's social security account number on any card\nor tag required for the individual to access products, services or\nbenefits provided by the person, firm, partnership, association or\ncorporation.\n (c) Require an individual to transmit his or her social security\naccount number over the internet, unless the connection is secure or the\nsocial security account number is encrypted.\n (d) Require an individual to use his or her social security account\nnumber to access an internet web site, unless a password or unique\npersonal identification number or other authentication device is also\nrequired to access the internet website.\n (e) Print an individual's social security account number on any\nmaterials that are mailed to the individual, unless state or federal law\nrequires the social security account number to be on the document to be\nmailed. Notwithstanding this paragraph, social security account numbers\nmay be included in applications and forms sent by mail, including\ndocuments sent as part of an application or enrollment process, or to\nestablish, amend or terminate an account, contract or policy, or to\nconfirm the accuracy of the social security account number. A social\nsecurity account number that is permitted to be mailed under this\nsection may not be printed, in whole or part, on a postcard or other\nmailer not requiring an envelope, or visible on the envelope or without\nthe envelope having been opened.\n (f) Encode or embed a social security number in or on a card or\ndocument, including, but not limited to, using a bar code, chip,\nmagnetic strip, or other technology, in place of removing the social\nsecurity number as required by this section.\n (g) Knowingly use the labor or time of or employ any incarcerated\nindividual in this state, or in any other jurisdiction, in any capacity\nthat involves obtaining access to, collecting or processing social\nsecurity account numbers of other individuals.\n 3. This section does not prevent the collection, use, or release of a\nsocial security account number as required by state or federal law, the\nuse of a social security account number for internal verification, fraud\ninvestigation or administrative purposes or for any business function\nspecifically authorized by 15 U.S.C. 6802.\n 4. Any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation having\npossession of the social security account number of any individual\nshall, to the extent that such number is maintained for the conduct of\nbusiness or trade, take reasonable measures to ensure that no officer or\nemployee has access to such number for any purpose other than for a\nlegitimate or necessary purpose related to the conduct
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