Miss. Code § 75-NEW-NEW-002

Current through the 2024 Regular Session
Section 75-NEW-NEW-002 - [Newly enacted section not yet numbered] [Definitions]

For purposes of this act, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

(a) "Digital service" means a website, an application, a program, or software that collects or processes personal identifying information with Internet connectivity.
(b) "Digital service provider" means a person who:
(i) Owns or operates a digital service;
(ii) Determines the purpose of collecting and processing the personal identifying information of users of the digital service; and
(iii) Determines the means used to collect and process the personal identifying information of users of the digital service.
(c) "Harmful material" means material that is harmful to minors as defined by Section 11-77-3(d).
(d) "Known minor" means a child who is younger than eighteen (18) years of age who has not had the disabilities of minority removed for general purposes, and who the digital service provider knows to be a minor.
(e) "Personal identifying information" means any information, including sensitive information, that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual. The term includes pseudonymous information when the information is used by a controller or processor in conjunction with additional information that reasonably links the information to an identified or identifiable individual. The term does not include deidentified information or publicly available information.

Miss. Code § 75-NEW-NEW-002

Added by Laws, 2024, ch. 456, HB 1126,§ 2, eff. 7/1/2024.