California Business and Professions Code

§ 22947.3

BPC § 22947.3 Effective Jan 1, 2005Div. 8 · Ch. 32

Statute text

A person or entity that is not an authorized user, as defined in Section 22947.1, shall not, with actual knowledge, with conscious avoidance of actual knowledge, or willfully, cause computer software to be copied onto the computer of a consumer in this state and use the software to do any of the following:

(a)Take control of the consumer’s computer by doing any of the following:

(1)Transmitting or relaying commercial electronic mail or a computer virus from the consumer’s computer, where the transmission or relaying is initiated by a person other than the authorized user and without the authorization of an authorized user.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 843, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2005.