HB 1125 - AS INTRODUCED
2000 SESSION
HOUSE BILL 1125
AN ACT protecting the confidentiality of telecommunications customer information.
COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy
This bill prohibits certain uses and disclosures of customer proprietary network information by telecommunications carriers.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
00-2114
03/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT protecting the confidentiality of telecommunications customer information.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Chapter; Prohibited Disclosure of Telecommunications Customer Information. Amend RSA by inserting after chapter 638 the following new chapter:
CHAPTER 638-A
PROHIBITED DISCLOSURE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS CUSTOMER INFORMATION
638-A:1 Prohibited Disclosure of Telecommunications Customer Information.
I. In this chapter, ''customer proprietary network information'' means:
(a) Information that relates to the quantity, technical configuration, type, destination, and amount of use of a telecommunications service subscribed to by any customer of a telecommunications carrier, and that is made available to the carrier by the customer solely by virtue of the carrier-customer relationship; and
(b) Information contained in the bills pertaining to telephone exchange service or telephone toll service received by a customer of a carrier; except that such term does not include subscriber list information.
II. Except as required by law or with the approval of the customer, a telecommunications carrier that receives or obtains customer proprietary network information by virtue of its provision of a telecommunications service shall only use, disclose, or permit access to individually identifiable customer proprietary network information in its provision of:
(a) The telecommunications service from which such information is derived, or
(b) Services necessary to, or used in, the provision of such telecommunications service, including the publishing of directories.
III. A telecommunications carrier shall disclose customer proprietary network information, upon affirmative written request by the customer, to any person designated by the customer.
IV. A telecommunications carrier that receives or obtains proprietary information from another carrier for purposes of providing any telecommunications service shall use such information only for such purpose, and shall not use such information for its own marketing efforts.
V. Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a telecommunications carrier from using, disclosing, or permitting access to customer proprietary network information obtained from its customers, either directly or indirectly through its agents:
(a) To initiate, render, bill, and collect for telecommunications services;
(b) To protect the rights or property of the carrier, or to protect users of those services and other carriers from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of, or subscription to, such services; or
(c) To provide any inbound telemarketing, referral, or administrative services to the customer for the duration of the call, if such call was initiated by the customer and the customer approves of the use of such information to provide such service.
VI. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a violation punishable by fines of up to $1,000 per incident.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2001.