California Business and Professions Code

§ 22947.4

BPC § 22947.4 Effective Jan 1, 2005Div. 8 · Ch. 32

Statute text

(a)A person or entity, who is not an authorized user, as defined in Section 22947.1, shall not do any of the following with regard to the computer of a consumer in this state:

(1)Induce an authorized user to install a software component onto the computer by intentionally misrepresenting that installing software is necessary for security or privacy reasons or in order to open, view, or play a particular type of content.

(2)Deceptively causing the copying and execution on the computer of a computer software component with the intent of causing an authorized user to use the component in a way that violates any other provision of this section.

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Legislative history

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